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Independence Activist and Patriotic Assassin, An Jung-geun
On October 26, 1909, Korean independence-activist An Jung-geun (1879-1910) assassinated Ito Hirobumi, the first Japanese Resident-General of Korea, at Harbin Railway Station in China.
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Ito was the architect of Japanese policies to annex Korea, forcing Emperor Gwangmu (i.e. King Gojong) of the Korean Empire to sign the Japan-Korea Protectorate Treaty of 1905 (“Eulsa Treaty”). On the other hand, Ito was a widely respected figure in Japan, as the leader who led Japan’s modernization, serving four times as Japan’s prime minister.
Therefore, many were shocked by the assassination.
Back in 1906, An Jung-geun took over the Samheung and Donui schools in Jinnampo to concentrate on the education of young people. But after the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1907 was signed, An felt that working to maintain Korea’s independence in Korea was becoming difficult, and moved to Jiandao, China, and then to Vladivostok, Russia where he organize