Conflict29 April 1932

Yun Bong-gil's Attack in Hongkou Park

Korean Patriotic Organization member Yun Bong-gil threw a bomb onto the platform at the celebration of the emperor’s birthday and the Shanghai victory in Hongkou Park, killing and wounding Japanese commanders.

Yun Bong-gil being taken away by Japanese troops after the attack — Hongkou Park, Shanghai, 29 April 1932
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The bomb thrown on 29 April 1932 killed General Shirakawa Yoshinori, commander of the Shanghai Expeditionary Army, and badly injured several senior officials. Yun was seized on the spot and executed at Kanazawa, Japan, that December.

Chiang Kai-shek is said to have praised it as "what a million Chinese soldiers could not do, one young Korean has done". The attack led the Chinese government to back the Provisional Government actively and laid the ground for the Korean Liberation Army.

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States and rulers at the time: Japan · targeted — Emperor Shōwa
Republic of China
Places: Hongkou Park

People

Yun Bong-gil1908 – 1932
leader · Korean Patriotic Organization member who bombed Japanese commanders in Hongkou Park, Shanghai; executed at Kanazawa
Kim Gu1876 – 1949
related figure · Known as Baekbeom; founded the Korean Patriotic Organization and led the Liberation Army as Chairman of the Provisional Government

Before and after

Earlier: 1932 Yi Bong-chang's Attack

Themes that include this event

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