About 200 people gathered at the edge of a snow-covered park in Midtown Manhattan on Friday to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the start of the Korean independence movement.

Waving South Korean flags and chanting “Manse!” (which roughly translates to “Long live Korean independence!”), the crowd celebrated the students and other protesters who fought to shake Korea of Japanese colonial rule a century ago.

In honor of those student demonstrators, particularly Yu Gwan-sun, who became the face of the fight for freedom, dozens of women donned replicas of the white-and-black uniforms once worn by Yu and her peers at the Ewha Haktang school for women in Seoul.