Tag: Jeon Myeong-un
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History of the Independence Movement in San Francisco: Jeon Myeong-un (1884-1947)
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Read in Korean Jeon Myeong-un was born in 1884 in Pyongyang. While studying at Hanseong Academy (the predecessor of Gyeonggi High School), he organized a secret society and engaged in the independence movement as the oppression from the Japanese colonial government intensified. In 1905, after being pursued by the Japanese military police, he fled to…