Cheonan City Publishes Unreleased Handwritten Materials of Seok-O Lee Dongnyeong as an E-book

Includes Letters Sent to Leeun Leeuiguk, Head of the Yeonan Lee Clan Samcheok Branch

E-book cover. (Captured from Cheonan City e-book website)

Cheonan City in Chungnam Province announced on the 28th that it has published previously unreleased handwritten materials by the independence activist Seok-O Lee Dongnyeong as an e-book.

Previously, the late Lee Seokhee, the grandson of Lee Dongnyeong, donated 24 personal items to the city in 2009. The city analyzed these items and unpublished handwritten materials, and published a single-volume book with transcription, translation, and commentary in December last year.

This e-book is a revised and supplemented version of the previous publication and can be viewed and downloaded from the Cheonan City e-book website, Cheonan City Library, and the National Library of Korea.

The significance of this publication lies in verifying the existence of the original official document of the Military Committee Regulations sent by Lee Dongnyeong, Chairman of the Provisional Government State Council, to the Provisional Assembly during the turbulent times of the Second Sino-Japanese War, as well as the original official document of the 1938 budget proposal, which greatly increased military expenditures as a sign of resistance against Japanese rule.

The e-book includes: ▲ a letter held by the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History sent by Lee Dongnyeong to Leeun Leeuiguk, the head of the Yeonan Lee clan Samcheok branch; ▲ a letter entrusted to the Independence Hall of Korea sent by Lee Dongnyeong and his father Chun-gang Lee Byeongok to Wuryeon Lee Byeonguk of the same clan; ▲ the book lending register from Hanseong Prison held by the Independence Hall of Korea; ▲ and official documents from the Provisional Government held by the National Assembly Library.

Meanwhile, the city is also pursuing projects such as applying for the registration of Seok-O Lee Dongnyeong Memorial Hall's Provisional Government documents as National Registered Cultural Heritage and producing replicas of archived materials, in addition to publishing the e-book, in order to upgrade Lee Dongnyeong's national honors to the highest grade.

He served as the first chairman of the Provisional Assembly of the Republic of Korea, Prime Minister, Acting President, and Chairman of the State Council, and passed away in March 1940 in Qijiang, Sichuan Province, China, where the Provisional Government was located, due to overwork and pneumonia.

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