Baek Jeong-gi (백정기, 19 January 1896 – 5 June 1934) was a Korean
anarchist
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not neces ...
independence fighter during the Japanese occupation.
Early life
He was born in
Buan,
North Jeolla.
After death
![The Graves of the Three martyr](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/The_Graves_of_the_Three_martyr.JPG)
In 1946,
Pak Yol recovered the remains of
Lee Bong-chang,
Yun Bong-gil
Yun Bong-gil (21 June 1908 – 19 December 1932) was a Korean independence activist who set off a bomb that killed several Japanese dignitaries in Shanghai's Hongkew Park (now Lu Xun Park) in 1932. He was posthumously awarded the Republic of Kor ...
and Baek Jeong-gi from Japan and conducted the national funeral on July 6. Baek is buried in the tomb of
Hyochang Park
Hyochang Park is a park in Yongsan Districtof Seoul, South Korea. It was originally the cemetery of royal noble consort Ui of the Seong clan (hangul: 의빈 성씨), her only son (and King Jeongjo's first son) Crown Prince Munhyo (hangul: 문효 ...
.
References
1896 births
1934 deaths
Korean independence activists
Korean anarchists
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