Recent from talks
Hongkou Park Incident
Knowledge base stats:
Talk channels stats:
Members stats:
Hongkou Park Incident
The Hongkou Park Incident was a bombing attack on military and colonial personnel of the Empire of Japan at 11:40 am on April 29, 1932. It occurred at Hongkou Park (now "Lu Xun Park"), Shanghai, Republic of China, during a ceremony that honored the birthday of the Emperor of Japan, Hirohito.
The attack was planned and conducted by the Korean Patriotic Organization, a militant arm of the Korean Provisional Government (KPG). The KPG was a government in exile for Korea formed in Shanghai in 1919 after the Japanese colonized Korea in 1910. It was motivated by advocacy for the independence of Korea from the Empire of Japan.
The attacker, Yun Bong-gil, was given two homemade bombs for the attack. He set off the first bomb on the main stage of a rally, which killed Japanese General Yoshinori Shirakawa and head of the Japanese Residents' Association of Shanghai Kawabata Teiji and blew a hole in the stage. A number of other Japanese people were wounded, with injuries ranging from severe to minor. Minister to China Mamoru Shigemitsu and Lieutenant General Kenkichi Ueda each lost a leg, and Admiral Kichisaburō Nomura lost an eye. A reporter and sailor also received minor injuries. Yun attempted to set off the second bomb in order to kill himself, but the bomb did not go off. The crowd began beating him, and likely would have beat him to death if he had not been pulled away by Japanese soldiers. After being interrogated for information, he was tried and sentenced to death in a single trial on May 25. He was transferred to Japan in November, and executed on December 19.
As a result of the attack, Japanese and French police began interrogating Koreans in the cities, and members of the KPG went into hiding. The attack earned the KPG the respect of Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek, who began sheltering and funding them. Yun is now viewed as a martyr in both South Korea and China. A number of monuments to him exist in both countries.
From 1910 to 1945, Korea was a colony of the Empire of Japan. In 1919, protests against Japanese rule were held throughout Korea, in what became known as the March First Movement. After the Japanese violently cracked down on the protests, numerous Koreans fled the peninsula and continued resisting the Japanese from abroad.
Among the escapees to China were the eventual founders of the Korean Provisional Government (KPG). The KPG was founded in Shanghai a month after the March 1st Movement. Political leanings were diverse within the KPG, with some strongly left and right leaning members. Opinions on how to obtain independence were also diverse, with preferences ranging from pacifism to militantism.
In 1931, a militant organization affiliated with the KPG called the Korean Patriotic Organization (KPO) was founded. It was led by Kim Ku, a significant Korean independence activist who is now held in high esteem in South Korea. Kim set about coordinating a number of attacks on Japanese leaders, including a January 1932 attack in Tokyo that nearly killed Emperor Hirohito. That attack is now known as the Sakuradamon Incident.
Yun Bong-gil (1908–1932) was a Korean independence activist. He witnessed the March 1st Movement and was appalled by its repression. He initially sought to advocate for Korean independence through encouraging education and activism, but became disillusioned after continued Japanese suppression. In 1930, he left his wife and two children in Korea to join the KPG and become a militant.
Hub AI
Hongkou Park Incident AI simulator
(@Hongkou Park Incident_simulator)
Hongkou Park Incident
The Hongkou Park Incident was a bombing attack on military and colonial personnel of the Empire of Japan at 11:40 am on April 29, 1932. It occurred at Hongkou Park (now "Lu Xun Park"), Shanghai, Republic of China, during a ceremony that honored the birthday of the Emperor of Japan, Hirohito.
The attack was planned and conducted by the Korean Patriotic Organization, a militant arm of the Korean Provisional Government (KPG). The KPG was a government in exile for Korea formed in Shanghai in 1919 after the Japanese colonized Korea in 1910. It was motivated by advocacy for the independence of Korea from the Empire of Japan.
The attacker, Yun Bong-gil, was given two homemade bombs for the attack. He set off the first bomb on the main stage of a rally, which killed Japanese General Yoshinori Shirakawa and head of the Japanese Residents' Association of Shanghai Kawabata Teiji and blew a hole in the stage. A number of other Japanese people were wounded, with injuries ranging from severe to minor. Minister to China Mamoru Shigemitsu and Lieutenant General Kenkichi Ueda each lost a leg, and Admiral Kichisaburō Nomura lost an eye. A reporter and sailor also received minor injuries. Yun attempted to set off the second bomb in order to kill himself, but the bomb did not go off. The crowd began beating him, and likely would have beat him to death if he had not been pulled away by Japanese soldiers. After being interrogated for information, he was tried and sentenced to death in a single trial on May 25. He was transferred to Japan in November, and executed on December 19.
As a result of the attack, Japanese and French police began interrogating Koreans in the cities, and members of the KPG went into hiding. The attack earned the KPG the respect of Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek, who began sheltering and funding them. Yun is now viewed as a martyr in both South Korea and China. A number of monuments to him exist in both countries.
From 1910 to 1945, Korea was a colony of the Empire of Japan. In 1919, protests against Japanese rule were held throughout Korea, in what became known as the March First Movement. After the Japanese violently cracked down on the protests, numerous Koreans fled the peninsula and continued resisting the Japanese from abroad.
Among the escapees to China were the eventual founders of the Korean Provisional Government (KPG). The KPG was founded in Shanghai a month after the March 1st Movement. Political leanings were diverse within the KPG, with some strongly left and right leaning members. Opinions on how to obtain independence were also diverse, with preferences ranging from pacifism to militantism.
In 1931, a militant organization affiliated with the KPG called the Korean Patriotic Organization (KPO) was founded. It was led by Kim Ku, a significant Korean independence activist who is now held in high esteem in South Korea. Kim set about coordinating a number of attacks on Japanese leaders, including a January 1932 attack in Tokyo that nearly killed Emperor Hirohito. That attack is now known as the Sakuradamon Incident.
Yun Bong-gil (1908–1932) was a Korean independence activist. He witnessed the March 1st Movement and was appalled by its repression. He initially sought to advocate for Korean independence through encouraging education and activism, but became disillusioned after continued Japanese suppression. In 1930, he left his wife and two children in Korea to join the KPG and become a militant.
Recent media