User:Dckewon5131/유흥수 (1921년)

Yoo Heung-soo (22 June 1921 – 12 February 2016) was a South Korean independence activist.

The hometown was Jeonju and the pen name was Sannam.

Independence movement
Born in Seosan, Chungcheongnam-do, he once spent a brief childhood in Hongseong, Chungcheongnam-do, and later grew up in Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do.

In July 1939, among the students of the Daegu Normal School in Gyeongsangbuk-do, who were mobilized for the reclamation of the Waegwan railway line in Chilgok-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do, the fifth-grade working class leader, who usually discriminated against ethnicity, was beaten in the workplace.

After that, students in the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd grades of Daegu Normal School organized a Yoon Dokhoe for each period in early October 1939 to inherit the anti-Japanese resistance spirit of their seniors and held meetings once or twice a month, reading Korean history and literature.

In late October of the same year, Park Hyo-joon, Lee Tae-gil, Kang Doo-an, and Moon Hong-ui agreed to publish a collection of works containing anti-Japanese national consciousness, while collecting manuscripts through a reading session, he edited and produced the manuscripts collected without returning home during vacation, and published a booklet called Firefly in January 1940, the main contents were to promote national consciousness and anti-Japanese spirit.

The booklet was distributed to students by publishing about 200 copies. As such, the school's anti-Japanese student activities continued in 1940. Meanwhile, students analyzed the international situation to predict the defeat of the Japanese Empire and needed more organized activities for the upcoming independence of their homeland. Thus, on November 23, 1940, he and his comrades, including Park Hyo-joon, gathered at a boarding house in Lee Tae-gil, Bongsanjeong, Daegu at the time to organize the Daegu Normal School Literature Department, an anti-Japanese student association that advocates literary activities.

As a movement policy, they resolved to keep secret and appreciate works every Saturday, and held about nine meetings from November 30, 1940 to March 9, 1941, to foster respect for national culture and anti-Japanese awareness. In addition, in March of the same year, the organ journal Student was published and distributed to the members.

On the other hand, apart from the Ministry of Literature, in January 1941, a secret association, led by Lim Goeng and others, was organized to conduct activities similar to the Ministry of Literature, which was intended to foster national consciousness and independence. However, in February 1941, some of the literary and artistic members and all the research members (from the 8th research group) graduated, so they decided to organize a new secret association by expanding their comrades to inherit and develop the anti-Japanese spirit of both associations.

Thus, on February 15, 1941, he gathered at his boarding house in Daebongjeong, Daegu at the time, along with 15 people, including Moon Hong-ui, Kwon Kwok-bok, and Bae Hak-bo, to form Dahyukdang, an anti-Japanese student association. The Dahyukdang inherited and developed the organization of the Ministry of Literature and the Research Association, and was not limited to the organization of the school, but expanded externally to include other students and ordinary people. Therefore, the name of the association was also called a party, and the organization had departments such as general affairs, academics, literature, research, and Gyeonggi under the head of the party and the head of the unfair head. At this time, he was in charge of literary creation.

Meanwhile, the Dahyukdang set the party's rules for strict secrecy, absolute obedience of party members, meetings twice a week, and guidance of junior students, and held three meetings from March 1941 to May of the same year to discuss the party's activities and organizational expansion. In addition, a plan was also discussed to abolish discrimination against students (mainly Japanese) and psychology and students (mostly Koreans) in the school's practice department. However, in July 1941, Firefly, a publication of the Daegu Normal School Yun Dokhoe, was put into the hands of the Japanese police, revealing the full extent of the secret association of Daegu Normal School in Gyeongsangbuk-do.

As a result, he was also arrested by the Japanese police, and after two years of severe torture, he was sentenced to five years in prison by the Daejeon District Court in Chungcheongnam-do on November 6, 1943, and was released from prison due to the August 15 liberation in 1945. He then served as a junior administrative member of the Korean Independence Party from 1946 to 1949.

an ordination
The Korean government awarded the Order of Independence of the Republic of Korea in 1963 to honor his achievements.