Category: THE PROUD STORIES OF KOREAN AMERICAN PATRIOTS
Park, Don-wook
Park, Don-wook: He contributed independence funds as a member of the Korean National Association. He initially joined and participated in the Korean National Association in 1919 serving different position of local organizations in Ohio and Chicago including service in Boston in 1942 by delivering...
Park, Sang-ha
Park, Sang-ha: He participated as a Hawaii representative at the Central Congress of the Korean National Association. Starting as an active member with Korean National Association in Hawaii beginning in 1907, he was in charge of legal, secretarial and military affairs of the Korean National...
Park, Soon-dong
Park, Soon-dong: He joined military operation NAPKO project as a student soldier. Park was conscripted as a student soldier for fighting Japan in Asia. He and his pal escaped and surrendered to the British until they were accepted by U.S. OSS. Later, they participated in the military training to...
Park, Yong-man
Park, Yong-man: He served the independence movement by raising youth troops on American soil. Park went to Japan in his teens and finished middle school there. After he was imprisoned in connection with a political group and released to join brotherhood with Syngman Rhee. He arrived in San...
Park, Won-gul
Park, Won-gul: He participated in Korean National Association and the Korean United Committee in America. He came to Hawaii in 1905 at the age of 21 after he learned Chinese characters at a village school. In 1909, he moved to San Francisco and joined the Korean National Association laying a solid...
Park, Hyung-moo
Park, Hyung-moo: He participated in NAPKO Project and published Free Korean Press. Park was initially conscripted into Japanese forc- es fighting in Southeast Asia when he fled to surrender to the British army and later transferred to the U.S. Forces. He was eventually flown back to the stateside...
Park, Won-shin Kang
Park, Won-shin Kang: She collected independence funds through Korean Women’s Patriotic League. She is a sister-in-law of Sarah Kang. She came to Hawaii in 1905. She worked at vineyard for 15 cents an hour while she was supporting her husband studying law to be a lawyer, yet the dream of becoming...
Park, Chong-soo
Park, Chong-soo: Park performed a battalion commander for the Greater Korean People’s Army in Hawaii. Park hailed from Pyongyang. In Hawaii, he acted as a battalion commander for the Korean People’s troop to support the Provisional Government in Shanghai. It was an occasion when Park, Yong-man...
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...
Park, Hee-sung
Park, Hee-sung: Pilot license #1 from the Provisional Government. Park, Hee-sung is a younger brother of Park, Hee-do who was a Christian delegate and one of 33 signatories of the March First Independence Movement of 1919. He came to America to fulfill his older brother’s dream to become a...
