page_title: Korean Patriotic Organization
section_title: Hongkou Park Incident
hierarchical_section_title: Korean Patriotic Organization / Hongkou Park Incident
caption_attribution_description: 中華人民共和国上海市の魯迅公園にある虹口公園爆弾事件の記念碑
context_page_description: Korean Patriotic Organization, also known as Korean Patriotic Corps or Korean Patriotic Legion, was a secret organization that aimed to assassinate prominent Japanese figures of the Empire of Japan. It was one of the independence movements propelled by the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. The Korean Patriotic Organization was founded by Kim Gu, president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. Its executives were Kim Suk, Ahn Gong-geun, Lee Su-bong, and Lee Yu-pil. Notable members included Yoo Sang-geun, Yoo Jin-man, Yun Bong-gil, Lee Bong-chang, Lee Duk-ju, and Choi Heung-sik.
context_section_description: (Korean: 윤봉길 의거; Hanja: 尹奉吉 義擧, 1932), by Yun Bong-gil)
  On April 29, 1932, Yun Bong-gil carried out an attack using a bomb disguised as a water bottle (widely misconceived as a narrow lunch box).  Yun Bong-gil carried two bombs to Shanghai, one being the water bottle and the other being the lunch box. The water bottle was used to kill the target while the lunch box was intended to be used to kill himself after the assassination, but failed to detonate. He intended to use the bombs at a Japanese Army celebration of Hirohito's birthday in Hongkou Park, Shanghai.
  The bombing killed Yoshinori Shirakawa (白川 義則), a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, and Kawabata Sadaji (河端 貞次), a Government Chancellor of Japanese residents in Shanghai. It also seriously injured Kenkichi Ueda (植田 謙吉), Division 9 commander of the Imperial Army, Kuramatsu Murai (村井倉松), Japanese Consul-General in Shanghai, and Mamoru Shigemitsu (重光 葵), Japanese envoy in Shanghai, and Kichisaburo Nomura (野村 吉三郎), admiral in the Imperial Navy who would later serve as the ambassador to the United States at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Upon learning of the incident, Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China, highly praised it: "A million Chinese armies didn't make it, but one Korean did it".
  Yun Bong-gil was arrested at the scene and convicted by the Japanese military court in Shanghai on May 25. He was transferred to Osaka prison on November 18, and executed in Kanazawa on December 18. He was buried in the Nodayama graveyard.
caption: Memorial to Hongkou Park Incident
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