Japanese authorities instructed tenants at the Yeodal Cooperative’s supervised rice paddy (gamdokdab) to cultivate Josinryeok (a Japanese variety of improved rice) and promoted the increased rice production in many places, taking the Yeodal Cooperative as a successful example of colonial agricultural administration. They also took the same cooperative as an exemplary model not only for agricultural reforms, but also for improvements in lifestyles. They insisted that some members there worked in secondary employments during the agricultural off-season, deposited money in their post office savings account, and prepared carefully for ceremonial occasions—such as coming of age, wedding, funeral, and ancestral rites—to avoid going into debt. The Tenants’ Association (1913), Commemorative Savings of Josinryeok (1913), and Pungnyeon Crop Storage (1917) were established and merged into the Yeodal Cooperative. They held various traditional events such as Bongbaehoe, Isunhoe, and Pungnyeonje, to cheer up the members. Living in the Yeodal Cooperative seemed peaceful, but behind the scenes, the Japanese forced Korean people to adopt Japanese varieties of grains and Japanese agricultural methods in the name of civilization and improving lifestyles.