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Yi Kwang-su

Died in 1950

Yi Kwang-su was born on 1 February 1892 in Chongju, in Pyongan. His parents died of cholera in 1902; taken in by a leader of the Donghak movement, he left in 1905 to study in Japan. He taught at the Osan school in Chongju, which he headed in 1911, then entered Waseda in 1915. The main drafter of the declaration of independence of the Korean students in Tōkyō, in February 1919, he went to Shanghai and edited the newspaper of the provisional government. Back in Korea in 1921, he sided with Japan and in 1939 took a Japanese name. Taken to the North in 1950, he died at Manpo.

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