- Shanghai Peiod
- Period of Migration
- Chongqing Period
- People
- Historical sites of the Korean Provisional Government
Government activities
The Korean Provisional Government arrived in Chongqing in 1940, during the Sino-Japanese War (since 1937) and the Second World War in Europe. Korean independence movement leaders had confidence that Japan would fall soon, and agreed that the “Provisional Government” should prepare to establish a “formal government”, and thus began to form a strong leadership. Accordingly, it amended the Constitution to create a structure with the premier as its head that would lead the State Council and exercise supreme command. In 1944, it amended the Constitution again into a system with a Premier and Vice Premier, and formed a united government of left and right.
- With Wang Boxiu, a Chinese who made a bomb for Yun Bonggil’s attempted assassination of the Japanese emperor (1940). First row from left: Wang’s wife, Kim Gu, Wang Boxiu. Second row from left: Eom Hangseop, Bak Chan-ik.
- Occasion unknown. First row from left: Jo So-ang, Kim Gu, Eom Hangseop, (unknown), Ahn Wonsaeng. Second row from left: (unknown), (unknown), Yang Ujo, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yi Bokwon.
- Korean flag sent to the Korean-American community by Kim Gu, March 16, 1941. Yi Hyeryeon, Ahn Changho’s wife, kept it and her descendents donated it to the Independence Memorial Hall.
- The Korean Provisional Government’s Declaration of War against Japan (December 10, 1941). The Provisional Government declared war against Japan after it attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, without notice, starting the Pacific War.
- Members of the 34th Assembly of the Korean Provisional Government (October 25, 1942). The 34th Interim assembly was composed of members of every party and group, including the Korean Independence Party, the Korean Democratic Revolutionary Party and independent figures. The assembly was a national assembly both in name and reality.
- Guestbook of the 24th anniversary of the March 1st Movement (March 1, 1943)
- Free Korea Council (May 10, 1943). The news that British Foreign Secretary Eden met with the U.S. President Roosevelt to discuss an international trusteeship for Korea was heard. Upon hearing this news, the Korean Provisional Government gathered all Korean independence movement groups in Chongqing and hosted the Free Korea Council, forming a movement against the trusteeship plan.
- Free Korea Council (May 10, 1943). The council declared that Korea was an independent county and Koreans were free people.
- Hong Jin, speaking at the Free Korea Council in Chongqing (May 10, 1943)
- Free Korea Council (May 10, 1943). From center to the right: Kim Gyusik, Yun Giseop, Jo Seonghwan, Cha Riseok, Choe Dong-o.
- First issue of the Chongqing version of 『Independence Newspaper (Dongnip Sinmun)』 The Korean Provisional Government that settled in Chongqing reissued 『Independence Newspaper』 in Chinese to support Korean-Chinese cooperation and to effectively appeal to the Chinese people.
- Certificate of appointment of Bak Yeongjun to the chief of financial affairs section, Ministry of Finance, Korean Provisional Government
- Kim Byeongho (Ko Jongmin, 1945) who was dispatched from Chongqing for Korea. He was arrested by the Japanese while he was organizing Korean students in Nanjing on his way to Korea. He was set free in 1945. From left: Kim Byeongho, Kim Gu, Bak Chan-ik.
- Kim Hong-il, who negotiated with Yun Bonggil, and Wang Boxiu, a Chinese bomb expert (1945). From left: Wang Boxiu, Kim Gu, Kim Hong-il.
- Shin Ikhui and an advance group of the Korean Provisional Government returning to Korea. First row from left: (unknown), Shin Ikhui, Shin Hyeonchang. Second row from left: (unknown), Bak Sudeok, Seung Yeongho.
- Security guards of the Provisional Government (1945). From left: (unknown), Yun Gyeongbin, Seo Sangyeol, Jeong Myeong, Bak Sudeok, Yi Munhwa
- Security guards of the Korean Provisional Government (1945).
- From left: Kim In, Kim Gu, Kim Dongsu
- Mun Deokhong was sent to Korea for military manoeuvres (May 9, 1945). From left: Kim Gu, Mun Deokhong
- Key figures of the Korean Provisional Government in Chongqing (September 1945). First row from left: Yi Siyeong, Kim Gu, Yu Dongyeol, Hwang Haksu. Second row from left: Bak Chan-ik, Jo Wan-gu, Kim Sangdeok, Choe Dong-o, Yu Rim, Eom Hangseop
- Commemorating the move of Chinese Representatives to Nanjing (April 1946). Representatives in China were organized to deal with affairs after the Provisional Government returned to Korea and to contact the Chinese government regarding security, the preservation of property, and the repatriation of Koreans in China.
- Main gate of the Provisional Government’s last headquarters in Chongqing