Yuh Woon-Hyung

This is a Korean name; the family name is Yuh.
Yuh Woon-Hyung
Born May 25, 1886(1886-05-25)
Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi Province, Korea
Died July 19, 1947(1947-07-19) (aged 61)
Hyehwa-dong Rotary road, Seoul, USAMGIK
Cause of death Assassination
Resting place Ui-dong, Gangbuk-gu, Seoul, Korea
Nationality Joseon
Known for Korean independence activists
Nationalist
Journalist
Athlete(Sportsperson)
Revolutionary
Religion Christianity (Protestantism)
Spouse Yoo, Jin Sang-ha
Children

Daughter: Yuh Nan-gu, Yuh Yeon-gu, Yuh Won-gu, Yuh Hyung-gu, Yuh Soon-gu

Son: Yuh Bong-gu, Yuh Hong-gu, Yuh Young-gu, Yuh Boong-gu
Parents Lee (Mother)
Yuh Jung-hyun (Father)
Korean name
Hangul 여운형
Hanja 呂運亨
Revised Romanization Yeo Un-hyeong
McCune–Reischauer Yǒ Unhyǒng
Pen name
Hangul 몽양
Hanja 夢陽
Revised Romanization Mong-yang
McCune–Reischauer Mongyang
north korean: 려운형 (Ryǒ Unhyǒng)?
Website
Mongyang Memorial Society

Yuh Woon-Hyung (May 25, 1886 – July 19, 1947) was a Korean politician who argued that Korean independence was essential to world peace, and a reunification activist who struggled for the independent reunification of Korea since its national division in 1945.

His pen-name was Mongyang (몽양; 夢陽), the Chinese characters for "dream" and "light." He is rare among politicians in modern Korean history in that he is revered in both South and North Korea.

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Lifetime

Yuh was born in Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi Province, the son of a local yangban magnate. At age 15, Yuh enrolled in the Baejae School but in less than one year moved to Heunghwa School. After moving to yet another school and leaving that school before graduation, Yuh began in 1907 to study the Bible and befriended the American missionary Charles Allen Clark, who helped him found Kidok Kwangdong School in 1909. In 1910, Yuh dramatically parted from Korean tradition by freeing slaves owned by his household. In 1911, Yuh enrolled in Pyongyang Presbyterian Theological Seminary and, in 1914, went to China where he studied English literature at a university in Nanjing. In 1917, he moved to Shanghai. In 1918, he organized the Mindan (Korea Resident Association) in that city, to provide a base for pro-independence activities. Yuh took part in the establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in 1919 and served as a member of that body's Legislative Assembly (Imsi Uijeongwon).

Like many in the Korean independence movement, Yuh sought aid from both right and left. In 1920, he joined the Koryǒ Communist Party (고려 공산당, Goryeo Gongsandang) and, in 1921, attended the First Congress of the Toilers of the Far East in Moscow. In 1924 he joined Sun Yat-sen's Chinese Nationalist Party and worked for Sino-Korean cooperation. In 1929, he was arrested by the British police for criticizing Britain’s colonial policy and handed over to the Japanese for imprisonment in Korea. After being released from prison in 1932, Yuh took on a variety of anti-Japanese activities in areas of the media and sports. During the Berlin Olympics a Korean marathon runner, Sohn Kee-chung, won the gold medal. Sohn, however, was running for the Japanese. The Chungang Daily News, of which Yuh was the editor, ran the photograph but removed the Japanese flag from his jersey. The Japanese closed down the newspaper and arrested Yuh for the action. In addition to serving as editor of the Chungang Daily News, he also served as the president of the Choson JungAng Ilbo (조선중앙일보) and other sports associations.

In anticipation of Japan’s defeat in the Second World War, Yuh organized in 1944 the Korean Restoration Brotherhood (조선건국동맹, Joseon Geon-guk Dongmaeng), a nationwide underground organization. When Japan finally surrendered to the Allies on August 15, 1945 and Deputy Governor General Abe transferred his government to Yuh in exchange for safeguard of Japanese in Korea, it enabled him to promptly form the Committee for Preparation of Korean Independence (조선 건국 준비 위원회, Joseon Geon-guk Junbi Wiwonhoe). In September 1945, Yuh proclaimed the establishment of the Korean People's Republic and became its vice-premier. In October, he stepped down under pressure from the United States Military Government, and organized the People's Party of Korea, becoming its chairman. For the following months of the anti-trusteeship movement and other political changes, Yuh took a line of action in concert with the communists.

When a movement to unify the political left and the political right arose in May 1946, Lyuh represented the center-left and occupied a position on the center between the left and the right. Yuh’s political stance was, however, attacked by both the extreme right and the extreme left, and his efforts to pursue a centrist position was made increasingly untenable by the political realities of the time. On July 19, 1947, Yuh was assassinated in Seoul by a 19-year-old man named Han Chigeun, a recent refugee from North Korea and an active member of a nationalist right-wing group. Yuh's death was widely mourned.

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Genealogy

Actors depicting Yuh

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References

Source: Paekbom Ilchi, English version, historical notes.

  1. ^ "몽양 선생의 친필이 맞습니다" – Oh My News
  2. ^ Joong-Ang Ilbo, 1932 November 16, page 2 colum 9
  3. ^ Dong-A Ilbo, 1932 November 17, page 2 colum 10
  4. ^ "Yo" is another Romanization of the name Yuh (여). "Yuh" was the Romanization used by Yuh himself.
  • 여운형(Korean)
  • ‘세계사적 개인’이었던 민주주의자 여운형 ①(Korean)
  • ‘세계사적 개인’이었던 민주주의자 여운형 ③(Korean)
  • <KBS Documentary> Yuh Woon-Hyung
  • Kang Man-gil, 《항일독립투쟁과 좌우합작》 (한울, 2000)
  • Kang Jun-man, 《한국현대사산책》〈1940년대편 1권〉(인물과사상사, 2004)
  • Kang Jun-man, 《한국현대사산책》〈1940년대편 2권〉(인물과사상사, 2004) p47.
  • Kang Jun-sik, 《적과 동지》(한길사, 1993)
  • Kang Jun-sik, 《혈농어수 : 몽양 여운형 일대기》(아름다운 책, 2006)
  • Kang Jun-sik, 《조선독립의 당위성 (외) : 여운형 편》(종합출판 범우, 2008)
  • Mongyang Memorial Society & Mongyang Institute,《Yuh Woon-hyng Note(여운형 노트)》(학민사, 1994)
  • Pak Tae-gyun, 《The Korean War(한국전쟁)》(책과함께, 2005) p47.
  • Yuh Yeon-gu / edited by Shin Jun-yeong, 《My father Yuh Woon-hyung(나의 아버지 여운형)》(김영사, 2001)
  • Yuh Woon-hong,《몽양 여운형》(청하각, 1967)
  • Lee Gi-hyung,《몽양 여운형》 (실천문학사, 1984)
  • Lee Gi-hyung,《여운형 평전》(실천문학, 2000)
  • Lee Man-gyu, 《여운형투쟁사》 (민주문화사, 1946)
  • Lee Chong Sik,《Lyuh Woon Hyung: the Korean harmonist(여운형: 시대와 사상을 초월한 융화주의자)》(Seoul National University Press, 2008)
  • Lee Chong Sik, Choi Sang-yong etc., 《여운형을 말한다》(아름다운책, 2007)
  • Lee Chul-seung·Pak Gab-dong,《건국50년 대한민국 이렇게 세웠다》(계명사, 1998)
  • Jung Byung-joon, 《몽양 여운형 평전》(한울, 1995)
  • Jung Hui-joon, 《스포츠 코리아 판타지: 스포츠로 읽는 한국 사회문화사》- 조선 스포츠의 아버지, 여운형 (개마고원, 2009)
  • 《여성동아》(2002.9.18.) "여원구 북한 최고인민회의 부의장"
  • 《정계야화》 (전2권) (홍우출판사, 1966)
  • Jung Yong-uk, 《존 하지와 미군 점령통치 3년》 (중심, 2003)
  • Han Yun-hyung, 《뉴라이트 사용후기: 상식인을 위한 역사전쟁 관전기)》 (개마고원, 2009)