Kim Gu, South Korea

Kim Gu (1876-1949)

Kim Gu, pseudonym Baekbeom (embraced around 1910), was conceived in Joseon Dynasty Korea in 1876 to rancher Kim Soon Young and housewife Kwak Nack Won. At 16 years old, he connected for the Joseon Imperial Examination, however fizzled. Soon after, he joined the insubordinate Donghak Movement and was made the locale pioneer of the Palbong area. After his para-military regiment endured a progression of annihilations at Haeju fortification in Hwanghae Province, in the hands of individual Donghak revolt Lee Dong-yeop, and at Kanggye fortress additionally in Hwanghae Province, he sought refuge. In 1896, he killed Japanese national Josuke Tsuchida with Tsuchida's own Japanese-made sword, trusting that Tsuchida had a part in the death of Empress Myeongseong in the earlier year; Kim was captured, tormented, and condemned to death, yet Emperor Gwangmu would over and again postpone his execution, as affected by prominent slant. In 1898, he broke out of jail and remained in isolation at a Buddhist sanctuary in Gongju in Chungcheong Province. 

In 1899, he came back to Hwanghae Province and turned into an instructor. In 1904, he wedded Choi Jun Rye. In 1907, he found the Yangsan School and filled in as its central. In 1908, he joined the Shin Min Hoi, a relationship for peaceful resistance against the Japanese control of Korea, which started in 1905. In 1910, he was involved in the death of Hirobumi Ito, as he was related with the professional killer. He was kept in imprisonment for a long time, amid which he was tormented, leaving deforming wounds to his left side ear; he likewise endeavored, in disappointment, to submit suicide while in jail. In 1919, he banished himself to Shanghai, China subsequent to seeing the ruthless concealment of a peaceful resistance March first Movement by the Japanese. He was among the originators of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in Shanghai. He was quickly made the President of the temporary republic in 1927. 

In 1931, he established the Korean Patriotic Corps, whose radical individuals would, in 1932, set off a bomb at Hongkou Park (now Lu Xun Park) in Shanghai which would wound General Yoshinori Shirakawa (who might kick the bucket a month later) and Yoshinori Shirakawa, and killing a few others. At the point when the Second Sino-Japanese War started vigorously in 1937, he would adjust himself to the Chinese Nationalist Party, later building up the Korean Liberation Army in China which would see activity against Japanese troops in China and Southeast Asia. 

In the vicinity of 1940 and 1948, he again filled in as the President of the temporary republic. He had longed for a Korean Liberation Army progress into Korea; however the war would end before his military commandants could dispatch such an operation. Kim landed in Seoul, Korea in late 1945 and turned into an individual from the between time government. In 1948, the inaugural National Assembly of South Korea named Kim as a contender for the nation's first president in mystery without his insight, yet Lee Seung Mahn would at last pick up the position. On 26 Jun 1949, he was killed in his Seoul office by Ahn Doo-hee. Kim was after death granted the Medal of Order of Merit for National Foundation of South Korea and the National Reunification Prize of North Korea.

The people of South Korea believed that he is the hero, leader, father of nation, first president  of South Korea.  He is also a one of the hero of national heroes of South Korea.