Jang-choon Woo: Difference between revisions

Woo was born on April 8, 1898, in either Akasaka, Tokyo or Hiroshima and raised in Kure, Hiroshima, he was the first son of a Japanese mother, Sakai Naka (酒井 仲) and Korean father, Woo Beom-seon (禹範善, 우범선). Woo Beom-seon served as the commander of the first battalion of the Hullyeondae (a Japanese-trained Korean military force)[4] during the late period of the Joseon dynasty and had sought political asylum in Japan. He was involved in the Gaehwapa movement (a modernization faction) and was suspected of involvement in the Eulmi Incident, the assassination of Queen Min and the murder of two other women in 1895. 56 Japanese nationals were arrested and tried on suspicion of involvement, but acquitted in a Japanese court due to lack of evidence. Meanwhile, Queen Min's son, Prince Sunjong, accused Woo Beom-seon of complicity in the murders and Woo Beom-seon fled to Japan.

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