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Yun Bong-gil

South Korean political activist

Died when: 24 years 181 days (293 months)
Star Sign: Cancer

 

Yun Bong-gil

Yun Bong-gil (21 June 1908 – 19 December 1932) was a Korean independence activist who set off a bomb that killed several Japanese dignitaries in Shanghai's Hongkew Park (now Lu Xun Park) in 1932.

He was posthumously awarded the Republic of Korea Medal of Order of Merit for National Foundation in 1962 by the South Korean government.

Yun Bong-gil memorials were built in South Korea (Seoul), China (Shanghai) and Japan (Kanazawa).


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