Posts by: Jay
Ahn, Jung-soo
Ahn, Jung-soo: He is a new Korean American independence patriot in 2015. In 2015, the South Korean government posthumously recognized him with the Order of Merit of National Foundation / Patriotic People Award for his contribution toward the Korean independence movement for his founding Shin...
Ahn, Won-kiu
Ahn, Won-kiu: He was president of Korean National Association in Hawaii. He arrived in Hawaii as an immigrant laborer toward the end of the Korean empire. In 1906, he was elected as president of Hawaii Community to teach autonomy against Japan. In 1907, he sponsored to organize...
Ahn, Young-ho
Ahn, Young-ho: He worked at Korean National Association as a younger cousin of Dosan Ahn Chang Ho. Dosan Ahn Chang Ho invited him in 1905 at age twelve and he attended a school operated by Methodist church and learned to sew work. He moved to San Francisco in 1915. He also worked as a truck...
Baek, Woon-taek
Baek joined Park, Yong-man’s Army in 1914 by actively involving and carrying out vari- ous posts including collecting independence funds for the Korean independence movement. In 2011, the South Korean government poshumously recognized him with the National Foundation Commendation for his...
Bahng, Sa-gyum
Bahng, Sa-gyum: He described Korean independence movement works in his life-time dairy. Bahng, Sa-gyum aka Samuel Bahng arrived in Hawaii 1904 at the age of 23. Realizing there is no hope there, he moved to San Francisco where he met Dosan Ahn Chang Ho for the firs time. He changed his life to...
Baik, Han-sung
Baik, Han-sung : He donated independence funds as an officer of Korean National Association in Matanzas, Cuba. In 2011, the South Korean government posthumously recognized him with the Order of Merit of National Foundation / Presidential Commendation for his contribution toward the Korean...
Bang, Hwa-joong
Bang, Hwa-joong: He performed a fact-finding survey of Korean immigrants in Mexico. Bang served as an editor for Gong Nip Shin Bo during 1905 through 1907 including his active service at San Francisco fellowship organization. When it began in 1905 from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Clairmont, Mexican...
Ben C. Limb
Ben C. Limb: He waged a Korean independence movement for life treading in Dr. Syngman Rhee’s footsteps. Ben C. Lim worked his way through as Dr. Syngman Rhee’s personal secretary in America. Syngman Rhee importuned Limb to fight for Korean independence. He graduated from government foreign...
Byun, Il-seo
Byun, Il-seo: He participated in the NAPKO Project as a U.S. Serviceman. He previously studied at Keio and Nanjing. He came to America in 1922 to study at Northwestern University and actively worked at Korean students section in the Korean National Association in North America. When the...
Byun, Joon-ho
Byun, Joon-ho: He staged an anti-Japanese struggle through his socialist state movement. Byun was a progressive journalist and he fought an independence fight as a socialist revolutionary. He came to America by way of Nanjing, China in 1917. He studied agriculture at Wesleyan University in...
