In this Korean name, the family name is Yi.

Yi Dongnyeong (also spelled Yi Dong-nyung) was a Korean independence activist. He served as the fourth (1926), seventh (1927–1930), eighth (1930–1933), tenth (1935–1939), and eleventh (1939–1940) President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in exile in Shanghai, China.

Yi Dongnyeong, along with Yi Si-yeong, Yi Hoe-young and Yi Sang-ryong, started the Military School of the New Rising (Sinheung Mugwan Hakkyo 신흥무관학교) or Shinheung Military Academy in 1911.[1]

He then took part in the establishment of an interim government, leading a provisional government in China for much of his life.

He died at 4:40pm on 13 March 1940, on the second floor of the Provisional Government headquarters in Chongqing. He had spent ten days in bed, suffering from pneumonia, and had previously suffered from asthma for years before his death.[2]

Notes

Tomb of Yi Dong-nyung in Qijiang County, Chongqing
  1. ^ Carter J. Eckert, Ki-baik Lee, Young Ick Lew, Michael Robinson, and Edward W. Wagner, Korea Old and New: A History (Seoul: Ilchokak / Korea Institute, Harvard University, 1990), 274.
  2. ^ "孫世一의 비교 評傳 (59) 한국 민족주의의 두 類型 - 李承晩과 金九". Monthly Chosun (in Korean). 2007-02-02. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
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Preceded by Presidents of Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea
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Preceded by Presidents of Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea
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