From the beginning of the colonial rule, they had tried to wipe out the culture and folk tradition of the Korean people and assimilate them to the Japanese by implanting the Japanese manners and customs in their mind.

Regarding the obliteration of the Koreans' good manners and customs as the "best way" for the assimilation, they brutally trampled down them through all kinds of evil laws.

An unprecedented farce socalled "survey of the Koreans' manners and customs" was started and from the latter half of the 1910s, the "Advisory Council" of Japan had been charged with it.

? By dint of "Security Law" and other evil laws, they totally cracked down the traditional public activities including those of "Schooling Society" and "Archery Society". They also "reformed" the existing societies and strictly put them under their surveillance by framing up "rules of societies".

What is worse, the Japanese imperialists sought to stamp out the white dress customs of the Korean people under the pretext of "encouraging them to wear colored clothes".

By mobilizing police and military police, they smeared white clothes of passersby with ink and instigated their stooges to wage a "movement to encourage colored clothes".

They "decided" to do away with the clothes for ceremonial occasions allegedly to save cloth, and compelled the Korean schoolgirls and women to wear sailor's suit and Japanese-style trousers respectively instead of school uniforms and chima (skirt) and jogori (coat).

In order to change the dietary custom of the Koreans in the Japanese way, they pressed them to eat Japanese and Western food and recite a "ritual prayer" before meal.

The traditional customs of celebrating festivals and playing folk games and amusements were also targets of their suppression.

The Japanese imperialists forced the Korean feudal government to introduce the solar calendar in Korea from 1896 and receive New Year greetings of foreign envoys to Korea from that year to erase the traditional custom of the New Year's Day celebration.

Besides, they concocted more evil laws, including the "criminal punishment rule by the police" to prohibit folk games and amusements.