Yeo Un-hyeong

Where they went

5 related events

1. 1
   1919February Eighth Declaration of Independencerelated figure

   Korean students in Tokyo formed the Korean Youth Independence Corps and read a declaration of independence at the Korean YMCA hall, lighting the spark of the March First Movement.

2. 2
   1919Founding of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Koreaparticipant

   After the March First Movement, on 11 April 1919, the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea was founded in Shanghai, the first Korean government to adopt a democratic republic. In September it merged the several provisional governments.

3. 3
   1944Korean Founding Leagueleader

   Anticipating Japan’s defeat, Yeo Un-hyeong formed the secret Korean Founding League at home. It became the basis of the Committee for the Preparation of Korean Independence right after liberation.

4. 4
   1945Committee for the Preparation of Korean Independenceleader

   On the day of liberation Yeo Un-hyeong, with An Jae-hong and others, formed a committee to keep order and prepare a new state.

5. 5
   1946 – 1947Left–Right Coalition Movementleader

   Yeo Un-hyeong and Kim Gyu-sik formed a left–right coalition committee and issued seven principles, but the Cold War and Yeo’s assassination ended the effort.

People who appear alongside

• Kim Kyu-sik1881 – 1950

  Envoy of the New Korea Youth Party to the Paris Peace Conference, later Vice-Chairman of the Provisional Government

• Kim Maria1892 – 1944

  Student in Tokyo who took part in the February Eighth Declaration and after 1919 led the Korean Patriotic Women’s Association

• Yi Gwang-su1892 – 1950

  Drafted the February Eighth Declaration and wrote the novel "Mujeong"; argued for home rule in "National Policy" and later collaborated with the Japanese authorities (listed in the Dictionary of Pro-Japanese Collaborators)

• Syngman Rhee1875 – 1965

  First President of the Provisional Government, who worked through diplomacy in the US; later first President of the Republic of Korea

• Ahn Chang-ho1878 – 1938

  Founder of the Sinminhoe and the Heungsadan; as Interior Minister of the Provisional Government he set up the yeontongje network

• Yi Dong-hwi1873 – 1935

  Vice-president of the Korean Gwangbokgun Government and first Premier of the Provisional Government; founded the Korean Socialist Party

• Kim Gu1876 – 1949

  Known as Baekbeom; founded the Korean Patriotic Organization and led the Liberation Army as Chairman of the Provisional Government

• Yi Dong-nyeong1869 – 1940

  Sinminhoe member who helped found the Sinheung school in western Jiandao and served as Speaker of the Provisional Assembly and head of the Provisional Government

Themes this person appears in

• World War II and Korea1937 – 1945

  Wartime mobilization and exploitation, independence armies, from the Cairo Declaration to liberation

• Republican China and Imperial Japan1912 – 1949

  The age when the Republic of China, born of the 1911 Revolution, passed through warlord division, the May Fourth Movement, the United Front and the Northern Expedition, fought Japan’s invasion and split in civil war — as Japan moved from Taishō democracy through the Manchurian Incident and military coups to the war in China and the Co-Prosperity Sphere, and colonized Korea resisted through the March First Movement and armed struggle