Person1890 – 1923

Kim Sang-ok

Uiyeoldan member who bombed Jongno police station in 1923 and took his own life after a gunfight with the Japanese police

After the March First Movement he organised a secret group at home targeting collaborators and Japanese officials, then fled to China and joined the Uiyeoldan. In January 1923 he returned to Seoul and bombed Jongno police station, notorious for arresting independence activists. Hiding in the city, he was surrounded by hundreds of Japanese police, fought them alone and used his last bullet on himself.

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1919 – 1935Uiyeoldan (Heroic Corps)participant
Kim Won-bong founded the Uiyeoldan at Jilin in Manchuria to destroy key Japanese institutions and assassinate officials.

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Kim Won-bong1898 – 1958
Leader of the Uiyeoldan, the National Revolutionary Party and the Korean Volunteer Corps; Deputy Commander of the Liberation Army
Sin Chae-ho1880 – 1936
Nationalist historian who wrote the Ancient History of Joseon and the Declaration of the Korean Revolution; died in Lüshun Prison
Na Seok-ju1892 – 1926
Uiyeoldan member who bombed the Oriental Development Company and the Chosen Industrial Bank in Seoul in 1926 and then shot himself

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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