A project to set up the donated statue of Korean independence fighter Ahn Jung-geun is underway at a park in Euijeongbu, north of Seoul, on Aug. 8, 2017. The Charhar Institute, a Chinese civic think tank, donated the statue to the city to promote friendship between the two countries. The Korean national hero shot and killed Hirobumi Ito, the first Japanese governor-general of the Korean Peninsula, at a railway station in the Chinese city of Harbin in 1909. The statue depicts Ahn pulling out a gun to shoot the governor while running toward him. (Yonhap)
Patriots and Veterans Affairs Minister Park Sung-choon (R) and Korea Military Academy chief Yang Jong-soo applaud after the school unveiled a statue for Korean independence fighter Ahn Jung-geun at the academy in Seoul’s Nowon Ward on May 1, 2015. in honor of Ahn. The independence fighter under the Japanese colonial rule of Korea was executed at a prison in China by Japanese authorities after being arrested in 1909 for assassinating Ito Hirobumi, the Japanese resident-general in Korea, at a railway station in Harbin, a city in China’s Heilongjiang Province. (Yonhap)
Children raise South Korea’s national flag Taegeukgi at a ceremony at the Ahn Jung-geun Memorial in Seoul on March 26, 2015, to mark the 105th anniversary of Ahn’s death. Ahn, an independent fighter under the Japanese colonial rule of Korea, assassinated Hirobumi Ito, the first Japanese governor general of Korea, at a railway station in Harbin, northeastern China, on Oct. 26, 1909. The freedom fighter was caught immediately and executed at a Japanese prison in the northern Chinese city of Lushun the following year. (Yonhap)
