Person1864 – 1930

Yi Seung-hun

Also called: Namgang

Sinminhoe member who founded the Osan School in Jeongju, was jailed in the Case of the 105 and was a Christian representative in the March First Movement

A merchant of Pyeongan who made a fortune in brassware, he joined the Sinminhoe after hearing Ahn Chang-ho speak, founded the Osan School at Jeongju in 1907 and ran a ceramics company in Pyongyang. He became a Christian in 1910 and from 1911 spent years in prison over the Anak affair and the Case of the 105. In 1919 he joined the 33 national representatives on behalf of the Christians and brought them into alliance with Cheondogyo. After his release he took part in the movement for a national university and served as president of the Dong-A Ilbo.

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3 related events

1
1907 – 1911Sinminhoe (New People’s Association)participant
Ahn Chang-ho, Yang Gi-tak and others founded the secret New People’s Association, aiming to recover sovereignty and build a modern republic by fostering education and industry and setting up independence bases abroad.
2
1911 – 1913Case of the 105related figure
Japan fabricated a plot to assassinate Governor-General Terauchi and arrested some 600 people, many from the Sinminhoe. 105 were convicted at first instance, giving the case its name.
3
1919Declaration of Independence and the Spread of the Protestsparticipant
The 33 national representatives proclaimed independence at Taehwagwan while students and citizens read the declaration in Tapgol Park and began demonstrating. The protests spread from the cities to the countryside and abroad.

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Ahn Chang-ho1878 – 1938
Founder of the Sinminhoe and the Heungsadan; as Interior Minister of the Provisional Government he set up the yeontongje network
Yang Gi-tak1871 – 1938
Co-publisher of the Daehan maeil sinbo who led the National Debt Repayment Movement and the New People’s Association
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
Terauchi Masatake1852 – 1919
Last Resident-General and first Governor-General of Korea, who ruled through the military police
Son Byong-hi1861 – 1922
Third leader of Donghak and founder of Cheondogyo; head of the 33 national representatives of 1919
Han Yong-un1879 – 1944
Buddhist monk and poet, one of the 33 representatives who signed the Declaration of Independence; author of "The Silence of Love"
Choe Nam-seon1890 – 1957
Wrote the 1919 Declaration of Independence; later collaborated with the Japanese authorities (listed in the Dictionary of Pro-Japanese Collaborators)
Gojong1852 – 1919
Twenty-sixth king of Joseon and first emperor of the Korean Empire

Themes this person appears in

Pyongyang194 BC – 2007
From Wanggeom-seong of Gojoseon to the inter-Korean summits — capital of Goguryeo, Western Capital of Goryeo, the great city on the Taedong
Seoul18 BC – 1988
From Hanseong Baekje to the June Democratic Struggle — the Han River land every kingdom fought for, and Joseon’s capital for five centuries