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Joong-Gun
Tul (32 Moves)
In his encyclopaedia General Choi told us:
Joong-Gun is named after the patriot Ahn Joong-Gun who
assassinated HiroBumi Ito the first Japanese Governor-General of
What I’ve discovered
At a turbulent time in Korean history, Ahn Joong-Gun (also An Chung-gun)
sacrificed himself in order to assassinate HiroBumi Ito, the man regarded as
the chief architect of the Japanese plans to occupy and rule
HiroBumi Ito had been the first Japanese Resident-General of Korea, from
1905 to 1909.
On
After news of this leaked out the
Korean people began to form anti-Japanese guerrilla groups.
As a well known educator, Ahn
Joong-Gun had established his own school, Sam-Heung (Three Success) school. As
the oppression of his country worsened he went into self-exile in
Knowing that he would have no
possible means of escape, disguised as a Japanese, Ahn Joong-Gun lay in wait at
As Ito stepped off the train on
Ahn was captured and imprisoned
at Lui-Shung prison (
Unfortunately, as with other attempts to highlight the plight of the
Korean people, this event only served to make the Japanese more determined to
clamp down on Korean activists and culminated in the Japanese troops being
deployed to surround the palace.
On
This brought the Yi dynasty to an
end after 519 years.
Mr Ahn’s love for his country was
preserved in the calligraphy found in his cell it simply said, ’The
For sources of this information please see the bibliography section of
the site.
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