Singanhoe

Singanhoe (Korean: 신간회; Hanja: 新幹會) or the New Shoot Association was a Korean independence activist group founded on February 15, 1927 during the Japanese colonial period. It unified Korean socialist and nationalist factions and maintained a unilateral independence movement until May 1931. Including both Korean and overseas branches, this organization was able to attract a total membership of between 30,000 and 40,000 people. While internal strife between leftist and rightist factions was a consistent obstacle, the Singanhoe actively pursued several goals: the abolishment of racial, political, and economic oppression the attainment of freedoms of speech, organization, association, and publishing the support of youth and women's equality movements the overturning of factionalism and clan nepotism the opposition to the East Asia Colonial Development Company the propagation of the economic frugality movement.