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Yi Dong-hwi

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

A former officer of the Korean Empire's army, commanding the Ganghwa garrison, he joined the Sinminhoe after the army was disbanded. After the annexation he worked in northern Jiandao and the Russian Maritime Province, and in 1914 founded the Korean Gwangbokgun Government with Yi Sang-seol. In 1918 he formed the Korean Socialist Party in Khabarovsk, the first Korean socialist party. In 1919 he became premier of the unified Provisional Government, but split with Syngman Rhee and resigned in 1921, going on to lead the Shanghai faction of the Korean Communist Party.

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    1914Korean Gwangbokgun Governmentleader

    Members of the Gwonophoe in Vladivostok set up the Korean Gwangbokgun Government with Yi Sang-seol as president and Yi Dong-hwi as vice-president.

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    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.

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    Chief envoy to The Hague who founded the Seojeon Seosuk school in Jiandao and led independence groups in the Russian Far East

  • 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

  • Kim Gu1876 – 1949

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

  • Yeo Un-hyeong1886 – 1947

    Founded the New Korea Youth Party in Shanghai and in 1944 the underground Korean Founding League at home

  • Kim Kyu-sik1881 – 1950

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

  • Yi Si-yeong1869 – 1953

    Younger brother of Yi Hoe-yeong who went into exile with his brothers, helped found the Sinheung school, served the Provisional Government as Minister of Justice and Finance and became the first Vice President of the Republic of Korea

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  • 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