Yi Dongnyeong (also spelled Yi Dong-nyung) was a
Korean independence activist
The Korean independence movement was a military and diplomatic campaign to achieve the independence of Korea from Japan. After the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910, Korea's domestic resistance peaked in the March 1st Movement of 1919, which w ...
. He served as the fourth (1926), seventh (1927–1930), eighth (1930–1933), tenth (1935–1939), and eleventh (1939–1940) President of the
Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in exile in
Shanghai,
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
.
Yi Dongnyeong, along with
Yi Si-yeong
Seongjae Yi Si-yeong (Chosŏn'gŭl: 이시영; Hanja: 李始榮, December 3, 1868 – April 19, 1953) was a Korean politician, independence activist, educator and neo-Confucianist scholar. He was the first vice president of South Korea fr ...
, Yi Hoe-young and
Yi Sang-ryong, started the ''Military School of the New Rising'' (Sinheung Mugwan Hakkyo 신흥무관학교) or Shinheung Military Academy in 1911.
Carter J. Eckert Carter J. Eckert is an American academic and author and the Professor of History of Korea, Korean History at Harvard University.
Early life and education
Eckert was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Lawrence University, where he studied Histor ...
, Ki-baik Lee, Young Ick Lew, Michael Robinson, and Edward W. Wagner, ''Korea Old and New: A History'' (Seoul: Ilchokak / Korea Institute, Harvard University, 1990), 274.
He then took part in the establishment of an interim government, leading a provisional government overseas for half his life, and died of overwork in the discipline of Sacheon on
March 13, 1940.
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Korean independence activists
Korean nationalists
1869 births
1940 deaths
Yi clan of Yonan