Sung Jusik (
Korean: 성주식;
Hanja:成周寔; 1891 - 1959) is a Korean soldier, socialist independence activist at the time of
Korea under Japanese rule
Between 1910 and 1945, Korea was ruled as a part of the Empire of Japan. Joseon Korea had come into the Japanese sphere of influence with the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876; a complex coalition of the Meiji government, military, and business offic ...
and politician of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and ...
.
In the time of Korea under Japanese rule, he was in
Korean Volunteers Army and the
Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, and after liberation, he participated in the Democratic National Front and the
left-right coalition movement.
See also
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Kim Won-bong
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Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea
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Korean National Revolutionary Party
The Korean National Revolutionary Party ( ko, 조선민족혁명당, Minjok Hyǒngmyǒng-dang), or KNRP, was a nationalist party formed by exiles in Shanghai in 1935 to resist the Japanese occupation of Korea. At first it was the main nationalist ...
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Left-Right Coalition Movement in Korean peninsula
The Left-Right Coalition Movement() or Left-Right Coalition Committee was a movement, led by the Centrists in 1946, which sought to promote cooperation between the Left- and Right-wingers of Korea in establishing a unified, peninsula-wide gover ...
References
Sung Jusik(成周寔, 1891~1959)Encyclopedia of Korean culture - Academy of Korean Studies
Britannica - Sung Jusik
1891 births
1959 deaths
North Korean politicians
Korean independence activists
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