Yi Sang-ryong
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Yi Sang-ryong | |
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이상룡 李相龍 | |
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3rd President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea | |
In office September, 1925 – January, 1926 | |
Preceded by | Park Eunsik |
Succeeded by | Yang Gi-tak |
Personal details | |
Born | Andong, Gyeongsang-do, Joseon | November 24, 1858
Died | June 15, 1932 Jilin, Manchuria | (aged 73)
Nationality | Korean |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 이상룡 |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | I Sang-ryong |
McCune–Reischauer | Yi Sangnyong |
Yi Sang-ryong (Korean: 이상룡; November 24, 1858 – June 15, 1932) was a Korean Liberation activist, serving as the third president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea from 1925 to 1926. Yi Sang-ryong, along with Yi Si-yeong and Yi Dong-nyung, started the Military School of the New Rising (Sinheung Mugwan Hakkyo 신흥무관학교) in 1911.[1] He participated in Korean independence movement
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[edit]- ^ 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.