Han Yong-un

Han Yong-un, who signed Manhae, was born in 1879. As a young man he took part in the Donghak uprising, according to the Seoul Shinmun, then became a Buddhist monk. He stayed in Japan and published in 1913 a treatise for the reform of Korean Buddhism. A representative of the Buddhists among the signatories of the declaration of independence of 1 March 1919, he was arrested and spent more than three years in prison. He lived his last years in Seoul, in the house in Seongbuk-dong built in 1933, which he had turned to face north so as not to see the seat of the Japanese Government-General, and died there in June 1944.

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• PoetryLove's Silence and Other Poems님의 침묵Han Yong-un · 1926Literature