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This study focus on a policy for confucianism by Tokanhu(統監府, the main office of proconsul) and Itohirobumi(伊藤博文, 1841-1909). In Korea, after Joseon Dynasty era, take a confucianism policy mainly as national polity. So it has Yulim(儒林, a traditional confucian groups) who are an influential senior noblemen and a landowner, a large number of families settled Joseon society for generations. The modern Korea also, when Ito is sent to Korea as a beginner of proconsul(統監), has so many Yulim groups. Tokanhu and Ito need the Yulim groups as a collaborator for colonial rule on the Korean peninsula, successfully. Because they should fight against Japan colonial rule for an independence movement. with enlightening Korean intellectual as well as young man, Tokanhu and Ito begin to bribe a person with money and power, sometimes they use carrot and stick, obtaining a Japanophile(a sympathizer for Japan) who is, so called, Chinilpa(親日派. the pro-Japanese group) in Korean. On the one hand they want to have Japanophile confucian and on the other to found a new confucian society. So they took every measure for confucian to win their over and found Daedonghakhoe(大學會), a new confucian society, with at the head of the pro-Japanese group as a projector. But Tokanhu and Ito should had a hard time to persuade most Yulim in Korea except only the pro-Japanese group. They underestimated the problem of nationalism connected deeply with Korean confucianism. It cause from, first of all, their lack of understanding for the essence of Korea confucianism. So, the plan for control Korean confucian and confucianism are fell through. Moreover, Ito is shot by Anjunggun(安重根) and died at Harbin(哈爾濱) in China.