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Person1881 – 1950

Kim Kyu-sik

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

He was educated at a university in the United States. In 1919 he went to the Paris Peace Conference for the New Korea Youth Party and submitted a petition for independence, then served as the Provisional Government's foreign minister and head of its Korean Commission in Washington. In 1935 he founded the Korean National Revolutionary Party with Kim Won-bong and others, and in 1944 became vice-chairman of the Provisional Government in Chongqing. After liberation he led the Left–Right Coalition Committee with Yeo Un-hyeong, which issued its Seven Principles, and chaired the South Korean Interim Legislative Assembly. In 1948 he went to Pyongyang with Kim Gu for the North–South Negotiations. He was abducted to the North during the Korean War and died there.

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  1. 1
    1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conferencerelated figure

    Delegates of the victorious powers met in Paris to draw up the peace treaties with the defeated states. Led by Wilson, Clemenceau and Lloyd George, the conference created the Versailles settlement.

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

    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
    1935Korean National Revolutionary Partyparticipant

    The Uiyeoldan, the Korean Independence Party, the Korean Revolutionary Party and others formed the National Revolutionary Party in Nanjing, the fruit of the drive for a single party in China proper.

  4. 4
    1940Founding of the Korean Liberation Armyrelated figure

    Settled in Chongqing, the Provisional Government founded the Korean Liberation Army under Commander-in-Chief Ji Cheong-cheon; the Korean Volunteer Corps joined it in 1942.

  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.

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    1948North–South Negotiationsleader

    Opposing a separate election in the south, Kim Gu and Kim Gyu-sik met northern leaders in Pyongyang, without result.

People who appear alongside

  • 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 Won-bong1898 – 1958

    Leader of the Uiyeoldan, the National Revolutionary Party and the Korean Volunteer Corps; Deputy Commander of the Liberation Army

  • Ji Cheong-cheon1888 – 1957

    Commander of the Korean Independence Army in the joint Korea–China campaigns and Commander-in-Chief of the Liberation Army

  • Woodrow Wilson1856 – 1924

    28th US president (1913–1921) who took America into the war in 1917 and proclaimed national self-determination and a League of Nations in his Fourteen Points; Nobel Peace Prize 1919

  • Georges Clemenceau1841 – 1929

    French prime minister (1906–1909, 1917–1920), nicknamed “the Tiger”, who led France through the last year of the war and, as president of the Paris Peace Conference, pressed for harsh terms on Germany

  • David Lloyd George1863 – 1945

    British prime minister (1916–1922) who introduced social insurance as chancellor, led the wartime coalition and represented Britain at the Paris Peace Conference

  • Syngman Rhee1875 – 1965

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

Themes this person appears in

  • World War II and Korea1937 – 1945

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

  • Changing Unification Policies1948 – 2018

    From “march north” to the Panmunjom Declaration — inter-Korean relations from confrontation to dialogue, through joint statements and agreements to summits (up to 2018)

  • World War I and the Russian Revolution1908 – 1923

    From the Balkan crises to a war of trenches and total mobilization that toppled four empires; the Russian Revolution it unleashed, which created the first socialist state; and the Versailles settlement of national self-determination and the League of Nations

  • 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

  • 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