Lyuh Woon-hyung

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Lyuh Woon-hyung
여운형
Lyuh in May 1947
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Korean Provisional Government
In office 5 August 1919 – 22 January 1920
Chairman of the National People's Representative Conference
In office 14 September – November 1945
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Position abolished[a]
Personal details
Born	(1886-05-25)25 May 1886 Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi, Joseon
Died	19 July 1947(1947-07-19) (aged 61) Rotary road, Hyehwa-dong, Jongno-gu, Gyeongseong, Southern Korea
Manner of death	Assassination
Resting place	Ui-dong, Gangbuk-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Nationality	Korean
Spouse	Jin Sang-ha
Children	9
Parent(s)	Lee (Mother) Lyuh Jung-hyun (Father)
Alma mater	Jinling University , Pyongyang Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Website	Mongyang Memorial Society
Korean name
Hangul	여운형
Hanja	呂運亨
Revised Romanization	Yeo Unhyeong
McCune–Reischauer	Yŏ Unhyŏng
Art name
Hangul	몽양
Hanja	夢陽
Revised Romanization	Mongyang
McCune–Reischauer	Mongyang

Lyuh Woon-hyung or Yo Un-hyung^[b] (25 May 1886 – 19 July 1947) was a Korean politician who argued that Korean independence was essential to world peace, and a reunification activist who struggled for the independent reunification of Korea following its national division in 1945.

Lyuh Woon-hyung, Syngman Rhee and Kim Koo were some of the prominent figures of the Provisional Government of Korea in exile.^[1] He is also known by his pen name Mongyang (몽양; 夢陽). He is rare among politicians in modern Korean history for being revered in both South and North Korea.^{[citation needed]}

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