Category: THE PROUD STORIES OF KOREAN AMERICAN PATRIOTS
Kim, Hong-ki
Kim, Hong-ki : He contributed independence funds from Dong- Ji Hoe. Kim’s range of activities covered in Hastings Youth Infantry School in Nebraska where he taught Korean. Later, he supported the Korean in- dependence movement by exchanging information with Seo, O-sung. He also served for Dong-...
Namgoong, Yum
Namgoong, Yum : He worked for Korean independence along with Dong-Ji Hoe and Dr. Syngman Rhee. Born in 1889, Namgoong, Yum aka David Y. Namgoong arrived in America in 1907. He was the only son of Namgoong, Uk, an independence activist, an educator and journalist. He studied English at Pai Chai...
Rho, Baik-lin
Rho, Baik-lin: Principal of Aviation School in Willows. Born in 1875, Gen. Rho initially went to Japan and graduated from Japanese military academy with honors in 1899 returning to Korea the following year until the Korean army was disbanded. In 1914, he arrived in Honolulu. During the post March...
Rho, Shin-tae
Rho, Shin-tae: He unremittingly donated Korean independence funds with his successful hotel enterprise. He arrived at the sugar plantation in Hawaii in He moved to San Francisco and to Sacramento as he was working fifteen hours for the next seventeen hours a day. He married in 1923. Later, he...
Jeon, Susan Lee
Jeon, Susan Lee She contributed independence funds Korean Woman’s Relief Association. When the Provisional Government issued a public bond for financial security, she purchased more than $15 worth of bonds. She was active in Honolulu woman’s organizations by supplying needy funds for the...
Moon, Yang-mok
Moon, Yang-mok: Exiled after Dong-hak Peasant Revolution and supported for the legal defense of Chang, In-wan and Jeon, Myeong-woon on the assassination of Stevens in San Francisco in 1908. Born in 1869, when Dong-hak Peasant Revolution erupted, he actively participated in the riot. When the...
Park, Shin-ae
Park, Shin-ae: She contributed independence funds through Hawaii Patriotic Women’s League. She came to America as a picture bride in 1889. His major contribution started when she was actively involved in financially assisting the Provisional Government in Shanghai particularly when she personally...
Park, Young-kwan
Park, Young-kwan: He contributed independence funds as a member of the Korean National Association. He served as judicial scrivener for the Korean National Association in 1918. He contributed numerous Korean independence funds from 1917 through 1943. Date of his demise is unknown. In 1997, the...
Lee, Am aka Albert Lee
Lee, Am aka Albert Lee: Lee, Am served the Korean National Association and other organizations with different capacities for the Korean independence movement. He was actively involved with Gong Lip Hyup Hoe in San Francisco in 1907, the Korean Nation- al Association in 1910 for Riverside with...
Park, Ki-buk
Park, Ki-buk: He participated in OSS / NAPKO operation in Korea with U.S. Army. Before his entry to America in 1939, he entered Pai Chai school and studied at Yonhee, predecessor of Yonsei University in Seoul. When he arrived in San Francisco, he was denied entry as he did not have a permanent...
