Artifacts Used by Yun Bong-gil

Basic information

Designation

Treasure No.568-2

Category

Books & Records

Era

1932년

Designated year

1972

Location

예산군, 충청남도— 충청남도 예산군

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These two documents are a curriculum vitae of Yun Bong-gil and his last will. Yun Bong-gil was a Korean independence activist who was the author of the Shanghai bombing which took place at Hongkou Park (today’s Luxun Park), on April 29, 1932. The hand-written curriculum vitae was drafted in 1931, at the time of joining Haninaegukdan (the Korean Patriotic Organization). Born at Saryang-ri, Yesan-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, Yun Bong-gil attended Deoksan Elementary School and later Ochi seosuk. When he was nineteen years of age, he set up a night school in his hometown to educate its rural residents. During the following year, the twenty year-old Yun Bong-gil created a book club (‘Gakgokdokseohoe’) and authored Nongmin dokbon, an instructional book for educating the peasantry. At the age of twenty-two, he started a rural community movement and founded Woljinhoe as its headquarters. When he was twenty-three years of age, as the oppression of independence activists grew severer, Yun Bong-gil left Korea for China. In 1931, he joined Haninaegukdan, an organization led by Kim Gu. On April 29, 1932, he threw a bomb at Japanese army officials holding an event celebrating Japan’s war victories at Hongkou Park in Shanghai, killing or wounding several members of the army leadership, including the supreme commander Yoshinori Shirakawa. Yun Bong-gil was arrested at the scene. He was court martialed and received a death sentence. After his trial and sentencing, Yun Bong-gil was transferred to Japan in November of the same year and was executed on December 19, 1932 in an Osaka prison. His last will, written with a pen, consists of seventeen sheets, 16.5cm by 29cm, bound into a book form.