Naver"Naver Encyclopedia-Donghak Movement" (dalam bahasa Korea). Dicapai pada July 15, 2013. "Although there is a theory that postulates that the Donghak was only a motivation for a few extremists, or that it only acted as a device for peasants to express their already existing desire for change, it misrepresenting Donghak's role as an ideological start or the religion of the leading rebels."