The patriots who laid down their life for the national independence movement and
the patriots who devoted their life to the movement in the era under the colonial
administration of imperial Japan have been always the object of attention. After
'the law for the respectful treatment of the men of national merit of the
independence' was legislated, the law for the respectful treatment has been applied
to them. In the sector of Korean women's independence movement, the 233
persons are acknowledged by the country based on the year 2013 but the
respectful treatment is stagnant at the basic level of acknowledging the recipients
who are the men of national merit owing to insufficient additional studies and
public relations related to the independence movement. Accordingly, in order to
recover the sense of existence of women who were active in the process of the
national independence movement, it is important to form a connection structure
between the academic world, related research institutes and the policy of reward
and welfare for the patriots. In this viewpoint, the flow of finding Korean women
of national merit of the independence was classified by the year, and the present
situation and the characteristice of the women of national merit of the
independence in each of the period were analyzed. If we look into the analysis of
the materials, the 1990's was the period when Korea was concentration of finding
the men of national merit of the independence, and it is understood that the period
after the 2000's was the time when finding them was stagnant. Presently there
are only a little number of the reward and welfare institutions and organizations
for woman of the national merit and the degree of participation of women appears
to be low. In spite of the above fact, the value of the national reward and welfare
for the women of national merit of Korean women's independence movement
represents the identity of women, nation and history and it has an important
meaning as the examples of the demonstrated spontaneous patriotism of women.
Accordingly, practice of feasible policy of reward and welfare for the women of
the national merit is necessary. Through additional finding of historical records,
extension of selection of objects of reward and securing local experts, the direction
that can make their devotion to the country highlighted as the example of the
practice of the country-gender-patriotism should be sought. In the future, the
Korean women's independence movement should be highlighted as an important
sector of the history of the independence movement and the example of the
spontaneous practice of the loving-country sprit of women.