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Yun Bong-gil

1908–1932 · 20th century

Yun Bong-gil was a Korean independence activist and member of Kim Gu's Korean Patriotic Organisation. On 29 April 1932 he threw a bomb at a Japanese celebration in Hongkew Park, Shanghai, killing General Yoshinori Shirakawa and the head of the Japanese residents' association and wounding several officials, including the diplomat Mamoru Shigemitsu. He was executed in Japan in December 1932.

Yun Bong-gil
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Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea

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