李斗山의 在中獨立運動

Lee Doo-san(李斗山, 1896-?): His Life and Korean Independent Actualities

From the 1920s until 1945 when Korean was liberated, Lee Doo-San was a leader of the Korean Independence Movement. His great achievement had been his writings in southern China, notably in Xiamen, Guangzhou, and Guilin, since about 1930. He was brought up in a Christian family in Daegu. He graduated from Daenam and Keisung Schools, and studied in Union Christian College in Pyungyang. While serving in the Ministry of Finance in Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea he graduated a military academy that was established by Provisional Government in 1920. After that, he entered Korea and was put in prison because he operated in the independence movement of Provisional Government. In 1925 when he returned China, he took part in the independence movement and worked as a peddler selling ginseng. In the early 1930s, he supervised the Voice of Korea (in Chinese), a bulletin that was published by the Guangdong chapter of the Korean Independence Party. After 1935, he participated in National Revolution Party and displayed a radical inclination. He joined in the Korean Volunteer Army and taken charge of the chief of editor. From 1939, he advocated liberation of the eastern peoples and Chinese resistance to Japan in Guilin. As a result, he published The Orient Comrade (in Chinese). In the 1940s, he was moved to Chungqing, and served in office as a vice-minister of the Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs, and a chief of the Department of Troop Information and Education in the Korea Independence Army in Provisional Government at the same time. Lee Doo-San wrote a large number of editorials against Japan and published biographies of activists, leading the Korea Independence Movement. Moreover, he composed and wrote lyric the Korea Independence Army March. After liberation, he organized Chosen Popular Party, a small party, and opposed the separated government in Korea. He was missing when the Korean War broke out. Despite the fact that he did not become famous, Lee Doo-San contributed to the Korea Independence Movement, the doing writing, and criticizing political problems. And he was a precursor who advocated movement of the eastern peoples against fascism.