Female independence fighters at special exhibitPhotos and possessions of female Korean independence fighters during the 1910-45 colonial rule of Korea by Imperial Japan, provided by the Women’s History Exhibition Hall, are to be displayed at a special exhibition in the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in central Seoul, starting March 27, 2019, as the country marks the centennial of the 1919 March 1 Independence Movement and the establishment of the provisional government in Shanghai. (Yonhap)
Centennial of 1919 popular movement against Japanese ruleStudents of Ewha Girls High School place flowers in front of a statue of independence fighter Yu Gwan-sun at the school in Seoul on March 1, 2019, during a ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1919 popular movement that protested for independence from Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. Yu, an alumnus of the school, died while imprisoned for leading pro-independence rallies. Transferred to an underground cell in the prison, she marked the first anniversary of the March 1 Movement before dying of her injuries on Sept. 28, 1920, at age 17. (Yonhap)
