The Nanmuting Incident
Also called: Nanmuting shooting
In May 1938, at a meeting in Nanmuting, Changsha, to unite three independence parties, Yi Un-hwan of the Korean Revolutionary Party opened fire, and Kim Gu was shot in the chest. He survived, but carried the bullet for the rest of his life.
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After the move to Changsha, Kim Gu sought to merge three parties — the Korean National Party, the Korean Revolutionary Party and the Korea Independence Party. On the evening of 7 May 1938, as their leaders gathered at the Revolutionary Party’s headquarters in Nanmuting, party member Yi Un-hwan burst in and opened fire. Kim Gu was shot in the chest, Hyeon Ik-cheol was killed, and Ji Cheong-cheon and Yu Dong-yeol were wounded.
Doctors gave him up for dead, but Kim Gu recovered as if by miracle. The bullet lodged near his heart could not be removed, and he carried it for the rest of his life. The three parties merged two years later in Chongqing as the Korea Independence Party.
