page_title: Kim Kyu-sik
section_title: Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea
hierarchical_section_title: Kim Kyu-sik / Life and career / Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea
caption_attribution_description: English: Kim Kyu-sik, Korean independent activists and politicians, Vicepresident of Provisional Govement of Korea 한국어: 김규식, 임시정부 부주석, 외무총장. 외무총장 자격으로 파리강화회의에 참석할 무렵
context_page_description: Kim Kyu-Sik, also spelled Kimm Giusic and Kimm Kiusic, was a Korean politician and academic during the Korean independence movement and a leader of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. Kim served in various roles in the provisional government, including as foreign minister, ambassador, education minister and finally as the vice president from 1940 until the provisional government's dissolution on March 3, 1947. Kim's nicknames included Yoosa, Kummun, KimSung, and JukJeok.
context_section_description: In 1919 Kim traveled to Paris for the Paris Peace Conference to lobby for Korean independence from Japan.  He was sent by Lyuh Woon-Hyung and Chang Duk-soo, who had organized Sinhan Cheongnyeondang in Shanghai in the summer of 1919.  His efforts in Paris proved to be futile.
  The Korean National Revolutionary Party was formed in Shanghai in 1935 through a grouping of nationalist Korean parties.
  Organizers were Kim Kyu-sik, Kim Won-bong and Cho Soang.
  Kim was a leading member of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea based in Shanghai, becoming the Vice-President. He was fluent in English and taught English to the Provisional Government's members.
caption: Kim Kyu-sik (1919)
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