Gwangju Veterans Office Holds Medal Presentation Ceremony for Independence Activist the Late Kim Hyun-su

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] The Gwangju Regional Veterans Affairs Office (Director Im Seonghyun) announced on the 30th that it held a medal presentation ceremony for the descendants of the independence activist the late Kim Hyunsoo.

The late Kim Hyunsoo, who received this medal, participated in a secret reading society while attending Gwangju Public Agricultural School in late June 1929. On November 12 of the same year, he was arrested along with about 200 fellow students during a protest march in the middle of class, sentenced to one year in prison, and expelled from school.

These facts were confirmed, and he was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit for National Foundation, Patriotism Medal.

Kim Yeonseop, the grandson of Kim Hyunsoo, said, “We are grateful that the government found and awarded my grandfather’s independence merit medal, which even the family did not know about.”

Im Seonghyun, director of the Gwangju Veterans Affairs Office, stated, “The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs is promoting a project to find descendants of independence activists, and we will do our best to deliver independence merit medals to as many descendants as possible.”

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