That was a bit later though. Leninism came to China and Korea in the late 1910s and 20s. I am talking about the ideologies and philosophies (Marxism among them) that came from the West by way of Japan several decades earlier than that.
You could argue that Leninism and Stalinism are more directly responsible for North Korean Communism today than Marxism was, and you wouldn't be wrong in my opinion, but the concepts of socialism, fascism, democracy, etc. first came to Korea and China by way of Japanese scholarship.
You could argue that Leninism and Stalinism are more directly responsible for North Korean Communism today than Marxism was, and you wouldn't be wrong in my opinion, but the concepts of socialism, fascism, democracy, etc. first came to Korea and China by way of Japanese scholarship.