Son Byong-hi

Where they went

5 related events

1. 1
   1892 – 1893Movement to Vindicate the Donghak Founderparticipant

   Donghak followers held rallies at Gongju and Samnye, petitioned at the palace gate and gathered at Boeun to clear the name of their executed founder Choe Je-u and win recognition for Donghak. At Boeun they raised the banner "Repel the Japanese and Westerners, raise righteousness".

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   1894Battle of Ugeumchicommander

   Risen again to drive out Japan, the combined Southern and Northern Donghak armies were crushed by government and Japanese troops at Ugeumchi near Gongju; Jeon Bong-jun was captured at Sunchang.

3. 3
   1911 – 1945National Movements of the Religious Communitiesleader

   Cheondogyo, Daejonggyo, Buddhists, Catholics, Won Buddhism and Protestants joined the national movement through enlightenment campaigns, armed struggle, campaigns to reform daily life and refusal of Shinto shrine worship.

4. 4
   1919Declaration of Independence and the Spread of the Protestsleader

   The 33 national representatives proclaimed independence at Taehwagwan while students and citizens read the declaration in Tapgol Park and began demonstrating. The protests spread from the cities to the countryside and abroad.

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   1923Children’s Day and the Youth Movementrelated figure

   Bang Jeong-hwan, the Cheondogyo Youth Association and the Saekdonghoe campaigned to treat children as full persons. On 1 May 1923 the Joseon Youth Movement Association held a Children’s Day ceremony, and the magazine "Eorini" was launched.

People who appear alongside

• Choe Si-hyeong1827 – 1898

  Second leader of Donghak who organized its scriptures and, in the second uprising of 1894, joined the Northern Assembly to the Southern

• Han Yong-un1879 – 1944

  Buddhist monk and poet, one of the 33 representatives who signed the Declaration of Independence; author of "The Silence of Love"

• Bang Jeong-hwan1899 – 1931

  Children’s writer and youth activist who led the Cheondogyo Youth Association and Saekdonghoe and created Children’s Day and the magazine "Eorini"

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  Choe Je-u1824 – 1864

  Founder of Donghak at Yongdamjeong in Gyeongju; executed in Daegu

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  Jeon Bong-jun1855 – 1895

  Leader of the Donghak peasant army, nicknamed the 'Mung Bean General'

• Na Cheol1863 – 1916

  Plotted with O Gi-ho to kill the five ministers who signed the Eulsa Treaty, and in 1909 founded Daejonggyo, a religion honouring Dangun

• Park Jung-bin1891 – 1943

  Sotaesan. Founded Won Buddhism in 1916 and led land reclamation, savings associations and the New Life Movement

• Choe Nam-seon1890 – 1957

  Wrote the 1919 Declaration of Independence; later collaborated with the Japanese authorities (listed in the Dictionary of Pro-Japanese Collaborators)

Themes this person appears in

• Seoul18 BC – 1988

  From Hanseong Baekje to the June Democratic Struggle — the Han River land every kingdom fought for, and Joseon’s capital for five centuries

• GongjuAD 475 – 1894

  From Ungjin, Baekje’s second capital, to Ugeumchi — the town on the Geum River that became the heart of Chungcheong