Person1918 – 1994

Mun Ik-hwan

Also called: Moon Ik-hwan

Pastor and democracy activist who joined the 1976 March First Democratic Declaration and visited North Korea in 1989 in the cause of reunification

Born in Myeongdong village in Bukgando, Manchuria, he grew up with the poet Yun Dong-ju. A pastor and Old Testament scholar, he worked on the Common Translation Bible produced jointly by Protestants and Catholics. Imprisoned over the March First Democratic Declaration of 1976, he was jailed several more times. In March 1989 he visited Pyongyang without government permission and met Kim Il Sung, and was arrested on his return.

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1973 – 1979Emergency Decrees and the March First Democratic Declarationparticipant
When a campaign to amend the Yushin constitution arose, the government suppressed it with emergency decrees; in 1976 dissidents issued the March First Democratic Declaration at Myeongdong Cathedral.

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