Park Cha-jeong

In this Korean name, the family name is Park.
Park Cha-jeong
Hangul
박차정
Hanja
Revised RomanizationBak Cha-jeong
McCune–ReischauerPak Ch'ajŏng

Park Cha-jeong (Korean: 박차정; May 8, 1910 – May 27, 1944) was a Korean independence activist and the second wife of Kim Won-bong. Her assumed names were Yim Cheol-ae (임철애, 林哲愛) and Yim Cheol-san (임철산, 林哲山). She led the female students' pro-independence protest by the Korean Women's League.[1]

Park was born in Busan. Her father committed suicide fighting Japan, and her family were independence activists.[2] In 1929, she graduated from the J.B. Harper Memorial School, the first Australian missionary school founded in Korea.[3] In 1930, she went to China and worked in Beijing to rebuild the Communist Party of Korea. She married Kim Won-bong in 1931. In 1939 she was injured in Jiangxi and died at Chongqing in 1944. She was buried in Miryang, where Kim Won-bong was born. In 1995, she was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit for National Foundation. Her statue is located in Busan.

  1. ^ President, Cheong Wa Dae‚ Office of the (2018-08-26). SELECTED SPEECHES: Moon Jae-in President of the Republic of Korea. Blue House. p. 119. ISBN 978-89-7375-617-9.
  2. ^ "학술논문검색사이트 KISS". 학술논문검색사이트 KISS (in Korean). Retrieved 2023-04-14.
  3. ^ Lee, Yoonmi (November 2016). "Religion, modernity and politics: colonial education and the Australian mission in Korea, 1910–1941". Paedagogica Historica. 52 (6): 596–613. doi:10.1080/00309230.2016.1237530. ISSN 0030-9230. S2CID 151382032.