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This article is what about the Cooperative Movement Association, one of the big 3 Cooperative Movement organizations during the Japanese Colonial Period, to examine its organizing process, structure of leading group and cognition of reality. In the early 1920’s, spreading influences of socialism, the Cooperative Movement Association based on Hanvit which was a group of the people who studying abroad and protesting methods of socialism movement was composed in Tokyo in 1926. The Cooperative Movement Association were a generation who experienced the Japanese colonialism in their childhood and built up nationalism, had a strong desire for an anti-feudalistic modernization, many of them were experts of economics from Waseda Univ. and Tokyo Commercial College. Both schools were affected by the economic school character of the German Young Historical School, and they were theoretical backgrounds that people were concerned about Cooperative Movement for a countermeasure of social problems. The leading group of the Cooperative Movement Association considered a current situation of Chosun as not only abnormal development process of capitalism but also the Industrial Revolution of Chosun by Japanese capitalism. They said all Chosun’s people will become proletarian by Japanese imperialism in the end. Therefore they suggested that movement speaking for all classes should spread out, that unity of the public and independent discipline should be done by the only Cooperative Movement. On the other hand, Cooperative Movement Association took part in establishment of Shinganhoe branch in Tokyo. In the beginning of establishment, Cooperative Movement Association took the initiative among the sympathy with the Shinganhoe headquarters in Kyungsong but as the ML group’s power expanded it organized joint forces with Chosun Communist Party(Seosang group) against ML group. In this union, there was a common cognition that an everyday strife which extensive classes participate was an urgent theme. Cooperative Movement Association moved the head office to Kyungsong and prepared substantial Cooperative Movement on April, 1928.