Yun Bong-gil

Yun Bong-gil was born in Yesan, Chungcheongnam-do in 1908, and was active as an independence activist during the Japanese colonial period.

Beginning in 1926, Yun Bong-gil carried out rural social movements such as peasant enlightenment and reading society movements.

In August 1931, he participated in the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea for the independence movement, and on April 29, 1932, on the birthday of the Emperor, he threw a bomb at the event and killed the captain of the Japanese dispatched to Shanghai, and was arrested on the spot. died at the age of

Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of China, extolled the saying, “A young man from Joseon did something that even China’s one million army couldn’t do.”

In 1962, Yun Bong-gil was awarded the Order of the Order of the Order of National Foundation.