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Yang Gi-tak

Co-publisher of the Daehan maeil sinbo who led the National Debt Repayment Movement and the New People’s Association

In 1904 he founded the Daehan maeil sinbo with the Briton Ernest T. Bethell and ran it as general manager. With a British owner the paper escaped the Residency-General's censorship and could sharply criticise Japanese aggression. In 1907 he made the paper the headquarters of the National Debt Repayment Movement, until the Residency-General arrested him for allegedly embezzling the funds (he was later acquitted). That year he founded the secret Sinminhoe with Ahn Chang-ho and others, and in 1911 he was imprisoned in the Case of the 105. He later worked in the Jeonguibu in Manchuria and served as premier of the Provisional Government.

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  1. 1
    1904Daehan maeil sinbo Foundedleader

    The Briton Ernest Bethell and Yang Gi-tak founded the Daehan maeil sinbo; with a British publisher it escaped Japanese censorship and could take an anti-Japanese line.

  2. 2
    1907 – 1908National Debt Repayment Movementparticipant

    A campaign to pay off Korea’s 13 million won debt to Japan with money raised by the people began in Daegu and spread across the country.

  3. 3
    1907 – 1911Sinminhoe (New People’s Association)leader

    Ahn Chang-ho, Yang Gi-tak and others founded the secret New People’s Association, aiming to recover sovereignty and build a modern republic by fostering education and industry and setting up independence bases abroad.

  4. 4
    1911 – 1913Case of the 105related figure

    Japan fabricated a plot to assassinate Governor-General Terauchi and arrested some 600 people, many from the Sinminhoe. 105 were convicted at first instance, giving the case its name.

People who appear alongside

  • Ernest T. Bethell1872 – 1909

    British journalist who published the Daehan maeil sinbo with Yang Gi-tak, beyond the reach of Japanese censorship as a British subject

  • Ahn Chang-ho1878 – 1938

    Founder of the Sinminhoe and the Heungsadan; as Interior Minister of the Provisional Government he set up the yeontongje network

  • Yi Seung-hun1864 – 1930

    Sinminhoe member who founded the Osan School in Jeongju, was jailed in the Case of the 105 and was a Christian representative in the March First Movement

  • Park Eun-sik1859 – 1925

    Nationalist historian, author of the Painful History of Korea, and second President of the Provisional Government

  • Sin Chae-ho1880 – 1936

    Nationalist historian who wrote the Ancient History of Joseon and the Declaration of the Korean Revolution; died in Lüshun Prison

  • Seo Sang-don1850 – 1913

    Daegu merchant who proposed the National Debt Repayment Movement with Kim Gwang-je

  • Yi Dong-nyeong1869 – 1940

    Sinminhoe member who helped found the Sinheung school in western Jiandao and served as Speaker of the Provisional Assembly and head of the Provisional Government

  • Terauchi Masatake1852 – 1919

    Last Resident-General and first Governor-General of Korea, who ruled through the military police

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    From Wanggeom-seong of Gojoseon to the inter-Korean summits — capital of Goguryeo, Western Capital of Goryeo, the great city on the Taedong

  • DaeguAD 689 – 1960

    Dalgubeol, where King Sinmun tried to move his capital — where the National Debt Repayment Movement and the 2·28 student protest began