f^TURDAY, AUGUST 9,1975
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"Ashes Buried
Of 10 Patriots
In Seoul Rite
The    ashes    ctf    10    in-
d e p e n d;? n c e movement
patriots were laid to rest
yesterday at the National
Cen etery in Seoul with some
800" bereaved families,
. latives, and citizens attending.
Two of them, Chang In-
; van and Hyun Soon, were
brou£- home Monday from
the United States while So
a a a; ran was brought home
from bapan. Seven others had
:     i :fed throughout the
nation.
The homecoming of the
ashes from the United States
and Japan was arranged by
a Office of Veterans
Admini iration   on   the   oc-
sion of the 30th anniversary
o the national liberation from
Japanese rule.
Patriot Chang shot Durham "
W.  Stevenson,   an  American
AAiomatic counselor to the Yi
Dynasty, as the latter attempted to justify the
Japanese annexation of Korea
luring a trip to San Francisco.
Chang was sentenced to a"
a     tr prison term and freed
ter 11 years.  He returned
home but went to the United
States again under Japanese
-b -; 5 died in 1930 at the
age of 54 and had been buried
in San Francisco.
Rev. Hyun Goon was sent to
banghai before the 1919
independence Movement to
publicize the movement
outside of Korea. He died in
1968 and was buried| in Los
Angeles.
Patriot So Sang-han made
an   attempt   on   the   life   of
Prince Yi of Korea and his
Japanese    wife,    Princess
<     a : t   heir wedding
ceremony in Tokyo  in  1920,
belie\        thai n     riage
* would      hii  :  v      the      in-
di pendence • a vement of the
< Korean people.
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Hyun Fought for Nation
By Yi Mun-ho
"Thousands of people were
shouting for independence
from Japanese colonial rule
when I reached Toksu Palace.
I could not help myself and
joined the crowd with full
emotion," recalled Peter
Hyun, who witnessed the 1919
Independence Movement as a
13-yei . 3Id boy in Seoul.
Hyun continued: "Then the
frantic Japanese military
policemen rushed and attacked the peaceful demonstrators with swords, killing
several hundreds  of  them./'
The 69-year-old Korean, now
living in Los Angeles, came to
his fatherland Monday with
the ashes of his father, Hyun
Soon, who was active in the
independence movement as a
special envoy for communication   and   diplomacy.
"My father, then minister of
Changdong Methodist Church
in Seoul, left home without a
single word to his family
around a month before the>
March Indepencence
Declaration," Hyun said.
His father/ as Hyun learned
later, left Korea for China on a
mission to take the news of the
Korean Independence
Movement to the outside,
world.
On    March   4,    1919,    in
Peter Hyun
Shanghai, Hyun Soon successfully made the announcement-of the uprising of
the Korean people for national
independence through the
Associated Press.    •
"My mother had a really
hard time, without her
husband, to feed eight
children who were crying for
food. She could not make both
ends meet and finally decided
to emigrate to China, keeping
her husband's whereabouts a
secret," Hyun reminisced.
! In 1920, Hyun's family
settled in Shanghai. His father
participated in organizing the
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first Provisional Parliament
of independent Korea and
became a member of the
organization and vice
secretary for foreign affairs.
One year later, Hyun Soon
was appointed by the
Provisional Government of
Korea (PGK) in Shanghai as
ambassador and minister
plenipotentiary to the United
States.
"My father established the
office of the PGK in
Washington. D.C., and
presented a formal petition for
recognition of independent
Korea to U.S. Secretary of
State Charles Evans Hughes,"
Hyun said.
In 1924, Hyun said, his
family moved to Hawaii
where his father worked as the
pastor of the Korean
Methodist Church in Honolulu.
"My father devoted himself to
the physical and spiritual
welfare of the Korean people
living in Hawaii," Hyun said.
According to Hyun, Hyun
Soon continued his struggle
for Korean independence by
raising funds to support the
work of Dr. Kjm Kiu-sik,
minister of foreign affairs,
and Kim Koo, leader of the
PGK in Shanghai.
His father retired from
active religious work in 1940
and died in Los Angeles in 1968
at the age of 90, In 1963, Hyun
Soon was decorated with a
, National Foundation Medal on
the occasion of the 44th anniversary of the March 1st
Indepencence Movement.
The ashes of Hyun Soon
were laid to rest yesterday at
the National* Cemetery in
Seoul with nine other patriots
of the independence
movement
"During World War II, I
volunteered for the U.S. Army
because I was sure that was
one of the ways to help my
brethren under Japanese
military rule," Hyun said.
Hyun was trained under a
program of the OSS (Office of
Strategic Service) and studied
the Korean and Japanese
languages.
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