People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Yi Dong-hwi 이동휘
Pioneer of Korean communism who fused the Bolshevik revolution with national liberation against Japanese rule
Political and party leadership
1873–1935
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Cho Man-sik 조만식
Kodang Cho Man-sik, the Korean Democratic Party leader removed from the northern political stage in 1946
Political and party leadership · Democratic Party of Korea
1883–1950
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Alexandra Petrovna Kim Александра Петровна Ким
The first Korean communist, who gave her life bridging the Russian Revolution and Korean liberation
Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks
1885–1918
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Yeo Un-hyeong 여운형
He met Lenin and Sun Yat-sen, then staked everything on left-right unity: the last Korean unificationist before partition
Social movements and organizing · Kuomintang
1886–1947
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Kim San 김산
Internationalist socialist who fought across the Korean independence movement and the Chinese Revolution, subject of Song of Arirang
Social movements and organizing · Communist Party of China
1905–1938
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Ho Ka-i Алексей Хегай
Principal organizer of the Workers' Party of Korea and leader of its early Soviet faction
Political and party leadership · Workers' Party of Korea (WPK)
1908–1953
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Han Chae-dok 韓載德
Journalist who headed propaganda for the Pyongnam CPKI
Literature and arts
1911–1970
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Nam Il 남일
The Soviet-Korean general who signed the Korean Armistice at Panmunjom
Military command · Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
1913–1976
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Chae Byeong-deok 채병덕
A general whose colonial military career met failure at the war’s outbreak
Military command · South Korea state institutions
1916–1950
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Pang Hak-se Пан Хак Се
Founder of North Korea's state security and enforcer of its political repression
Security, intelligence and policing · Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
?–1992