Kang Pan-sok

This is a Korean name; the family name is Kang.
Kang Pan-sok
Born 21 April 1892
Died 31 July 1932 (aged 40)
Birth name
Chosŏn'gŭl 강반석
Hancha
Revised Romanization Gang Pan-seok
McCune–Reischauer Kang Pan-sŏk

Kang Pan-sŏk (21 April 1892 31 July 1932) was the mother of North Korean leader Kim Il-sung,[1] grandmother of the late leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-Il, and great-grandmother of the current leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un. She was a Korean independence activist and Communist politician. April 21 is a day of memorial for her in North Korea, when a wreath-laying ceremony is held at Chilgol Revolutionary Site, in what was Chilgol-ri, a town once in Pyongan Province and today part of Pyongyang.

References

  1. "NORTH KOREA THIS WEEK NO. 468 (October 4, 2007)". Yonhap News Agency. October 4, 2007. Retrieved 19 December 2011.