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Hong Myeong-hui

Died in 1968

Hong Myeong-hui was born in 1888 in Goesan, in North Chungcheong. According to the Literature Translation Institute, he studied in Japan, stopped after his father's suicide in the wake of the annexation, spent several years in China for the cause of independence and was imprisoned after leading the 1 March 1919 movement in Goesan, then again from 1929 to 1932. An editor at the Dong-a Ilbo, he was one of the founders of the Singanhoe in 1927. Having stayed in the North in 1948, he became deputy Prime Minister there and died in March 1968.

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