User:Dckewon5131/이광 (1879년)

Lee Kwang (1879–1966) was a South Korean anti-Japanese independence activist. He was born in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province.

Life
He is from Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province.

Preparations for the anti-Japanese struggle
After joining the New People's Association in 1907, the New People's Association held a meeting of executives at Yang Gi-tak's house in Seoul in the spring of 1909, determined that the liberation movement could not be expected in Korea, and decided to establish an independence movement base in Manchuria. According to this decision, Yang Ki-tak, Ahn Tae-guk, Kim Gu, and Lee Seung-hoon decided to raise funds in Korea, and he, Lee Hoe-young, Lee Dong-nyeong, Joo Jin-soo, and Jang Yoo-soon left for Manchuria to buy a suitable branch for the independence movement.

When they went to Manchuria, they searched for several places in Nammanju and selected a base suitable for the additional family of Samwonbo in Yuha-hyeon, Liaoning Province. This was because the area was a desolate uncultivated area with few houses, but the land was fertile and it was judged that there would be a lot of future development.

Gyeonghaksa and Shinheung Training Center
Thus, in the winter of that year, he left for Manchuria with the brothers Lee Cheol-young, Lee Si-young, Lee Hoe-young, and Lee Dong-nyeong, Lee Sang-ryong, Kim Hyung-sik, Hwang Man-young, and Lee Myung-se. Thus, in the spring of 1911, Gyeonghaksa Temple was organized and Sinheung Training Center was established as a project to establish an independent base and foster military officers, which had been resolved early by the New People's Association. Gyeonghaksa Temple means to cultivate and learn the qualities of an independent people and establish a base for the independence movement, and Sinheung Training Center aims to foster young officers, a key figure in the liberation of their homeland.

He was also briefly the principal of an emerging school.

Life in Shanghai, Beijing, and Nanjing
In 1912, he went to Beijing and joined Dongjesa, led by Shin Gyu-sik, and continued his studies at a Chinese university. In February 1919, he participated as one of the 39 representatives of the Korean Declaration of Independence and signed it. When the March 1 Independence Movement took place in 1919, many patriots gathered in Shanghai to establish a provisional government and establish a provisional council house, at which time he was elected as a member of the provisional council and played a lot of roles in the establishment of the provisional government.

In December 1921, Cho Seong-hwan and Han Se-ryang, a foreign affairs committee member of the Provisional Government, took the role of a correspondent in Beijing, protecting the livelihood of Koreans by securing their residence rights and living stability. In 1930, Park Yong-tae and others formed the Korean Independent Party Ju-bi Association in Beijing, and published the Korean Hemorrhage, an organization, as a moment, and he served as a reporter.

In September 1932, independence fighters gathered in Namkyung and the Korea Gwangbokjin Line were organized and became executives of them, and they devoted themselves to propaganda activities with Hongjin, Cho Wan-gu, Cho So-ang, Hyun Ik-cheol, and Cho Kyung-han. In 1938, he served as a temporary government Honamseong diplomat in Jangsa, and in March 1944, he actively supported the temporary government as a member of the Korean Independence Party.

After liberation
After the liberation in 1945, the Hankyo Mission was organized to protect Koreans before the return of the Provisional Government on October 15, and after the return of the Provisional Government, it was in charge of liaison with the Chinese government and other tasks to deal with the repatriation of Koreans. Accordingly, he was appointed as the head of the Hangyo Mission in northern China and rescued ethnic Koreans who were surrounded by the Paloalto Army in northeastern China in negotiations with the Chinese government and the U.S. military.

After death

 * The Korean government awarded the Order of Independence in 1963 in honor of the deceased's achievements.