Category: THE PROUD STORIES OF KOREAN AMERICAN PATRIOTS
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...
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...
Paik, Earl-ku
Paik, Earl-ku: He guided the Korean independence as a second-in-command at the Korean National Association. Paik, Earl-ku was a second-in-command at Korean National Association. When Dosan Ahn Chang Ho left for Shanghai in April of 1919, Earl took the lead the Korean independence in America, Hawaii...
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...
Seo, Jae-geun
Seo, Jae-geun: He donated independence funds as an independence newspaper promoter. Starting in 1910 through 1944, Seo worked hard for Korean National Association in Hawaii and to work as an independence newspaper promoter. In 2014, the South Korean government posthumously recognized him with the...
Shin, Sang-geun
Shin, Sang-geun: He worked at the U.S. Committee in the Provisional Government in Shanghai. Beginning in 1942, Shin delivered speeches at many parts in American cities urging the approval of Korean national independence. He also worked for the economic committee for the Provisional Government and...
Shin, Hyung-ho
Shin, Hyung-ho: He served as an instructor at the Korean Youth Military School and as a correspondent at North America Committee. Shin served as an instructor at the Hastings mil- itary youth school for independence movement. He was active at the Korean National Association in Chicago in 1918. He...
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...
Philip Jaisohn
Philip Jaisohn: He is the celebrated Korean Independence Movement Leader. Dr. Philip Jaisohn, aka So, Jae-pil, was a trailblazer for early Korean enlightenment and modernization ideology. How did he come up with a more American-sounding name? It is said that he got Philip Jaisohn by reversing the...
Sohn, Duk-yin
Sohn, Duk-yin: He supported by collecting the Independence movement in Hawaii. He organized in supporting the independence funds for the Provisional Government in Shanghai with Kim Goo appealed the Koreans for the funds and Korean residents organizations in Hawaii. Initially, Sohn went to...
