Yi Si-yeong
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Yi Si-yeong | |
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이시영 | |
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1st Vice President of South Korea | |
In office 24 July 1948 – 9 May 1951 | |
President | Syngman Rhee |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Kim Seong-su |
Personal details | |
Born | 3 December 1868 Hanseong-bu, Joseon |
Died | 19 April 1953 Busan, South Korea | (aged 84)
Political party | Democratic Party |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 이시영 |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | I Siyeong |
McCune–Reischauer | Ri Siyŏng |
Art name | |
Hangul | 성재 |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Seongjae |
McCune–Reischauer | Sŏngjae |
Courtesy name | |
Hangul | 성흡 |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Seongheup |
McCune–Reischauer | Sŏnghŭp |
Pen name | |
Hangul | 시림산인 |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Sirimsanin |
McCune–Reischauer | Sirimsanin |
Seongjae Yi Si-yeong (Korean: 이시영; Hanja: 李始榮; December 3, 1868 – April 19, 1953) was a Korean politician, independence activist, educator and neo-Confucianist scholar. He was the first vice president of South Korea from 1948 to 1951.[1] Yi resigned after the National Defense Corps incident of 1951. His art names were Seongjae (성재; 省齋) or Sirimsanin (시림산인; 始林山人). Before the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, he had served for Joseon as the Governor of South Pyongan Province and the President of Hansung Law Court.
Work book
[edit]- Gamseemanuh (감시만어; 感時漫語)
Popular culture
[edit]- Portrayed by Jo Young-jin in the 2010 KBS TV series Freedom Fighter, Lee Hoe-young.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Hanguksa daesajeon (한국사대사전 Encyclopedia of Korean History; 2004), Goryeo chulpansa (고려출판사), p.1039
External links
[edit]- Yi Si-yeong (in Korean)
- Yi Si-yeong:Navercast (in Korean)
- Yi See-young:Korean historical persons information Archived 2013-12-31 at the Wayback Machine (in Korean)
- Yi See-young (in Korean)
- Yi See-young (in Korean)
- Yi See-young:Nate Archived 2013-12-31 at the Wayback Machine (in Korean)
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- 1868 births
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- Vice presidents of South Korea
- 20th-century South Korean politicians
- Korean Confucianists
- South Korean anti-communists
- South Korean Confucianists
- Korean educators
- South Korean people of the Korean War
- Recipients of the Order of Merit for National Foundation
- People from Seoul
- Members of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea
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