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Yoon Hee-soon (August 11, 1860, June 25, 1860) was Korea's first female medical soldier leader as an independence activist.

Life and Career
Yoon Hee-soon was born in 1860 in Guji-myeon, Yangju-gun, Gyeonggi-do, as the eldest daughter of Yoon Ik-sang. Born and raised in a Confucian family, Yoon Hee-soon married Yoo Je-won, the eldest son of Yoo Hong-seok, a medical officer in Chuncheon and have two sons.

In 1896, Japan assassinated the Korean's Queen Empress Myeongseong. Yoon He-Soon created many anti-Japanese song,such as ‘one's wife uibyeongga’ which triggered an anti-Japanese consciousness and shows the meaning that women should also be the center of the old country's activities.

Yoon He-Soon emphasized that woman cannot be distinguished from a man in saving the country. That, she gathered women in the village and said that women as a group to work together to defeat Japan, no matter how strong Japan is. Therefore, women should also join the medical profession and help the medical corps. She urged women to work in the medical profession by writing a song called "‘one's wife uibyeongga’," which is a song for women to help the medical soldier and emphasized there is no difference in gender when saving the country.

When the Japanese emperor abolished King Gojong and disbanded the Korean Empire army in 1907, Yoon He-Soon collected funds from the military to purchase brass and copper, and operated ammunition manufacturing stations that produced and supplied gunpowder.She also recruited about 30 women medical doctors to support others or participate in medical training. Although she did not directly participate in the battle, she actively supported them from the rear and focused her efforts on the medical movement. In particular, she rebuked the informant who served as a frontman for the government and the Japanese army, and left eight medical doctors and four warning signs, the first Korean-language medical doctor and a Korean resistance poem.

In addition to supporting active medical campaigns such as organizing women's corps and operating ammunition manufacturing stations, she produced eight medical personnel and four warning signs to urge them to seek military service. Women should also be at the center of the country's old military activities by building Medical Street and  Medical Song to help many women participate in the medical campaign.

Later Life
After the Japanese colonial rule of the country in 1910, when her father-in-law's only daughter tried to pass up her own decision, her husband, Yoo Je-won, defected to China to persuade her to continue her independence movement and all her family members defected to China in 1911. After her defection to China, she took the initiative in the independence movement. In 1912, she raised funds to establish Roh Hak-dang, a branch school of her alumni school. She later continued anti-Japanese propaganda and fundraising activities through various villages in China, and devoted herself to the old-fashioned movement, including producing about 50 graduates at the Roh Hak-dang, which instilled the anti-Japanese spirit. During the time, her father-in-law Yoo Hong-seok died in 1913, and her husband died two years later. However, her independence movement continued, and she joined her two sons Don-Sang and Min-Sang as an independence activist group and devoted themselves to supporting her. In July 1935, Don Sang, his eldest son, was arrested by Japanese police in Fushun, China, and was tortured to death. And she was Unable to contain her anger in the face of her son's death. She died after writing her life in a lifetime and arranging her requests to her descendants. She died in 1935 at the age of 76.

Legacy
The Order of Merit for National Foundation was posthumously awarded in 1990, and was selected as this month's independence activist in September 2008.

Yoon He-Soon, remembered as the nation's first female medical leader during Japanese colonization in Korea.