박은식 朴殷植
Independence activist, historian, and journalist who served as the second president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea
| Life | 1859 ~ 1925 |
| Era | 근현대(일제강점기) |
| Clan | 밀양 박씨 |
Life & career
Park Eun-sik (1859-1925), pen names Gyeomgok and Baekam, edited the newspapers Hwangseong Sinmun and Daehan Maeil Sinbo before joining the New People's Association in the campaign to restore national sovereignty. After going into exile in Manchuria and the Russian Far East in 1911, he wrote the influential histories Hanguk Tongsa (1915) and Hanguk Dongnip Undong Jihyeolsa (1920), documenting Japanese aggression and the independence movement.
He became the second president of the Provisional Government of Korea in 1925 following Syngman Rhee's impeachment, but died of laryngitis in Shanghai that same year. His adopted son Park Si-chang went on to become an army general and independence fighter in his own right; Park Eun-sik's remains were repatriated to Seoul National Cemetery in 1993.
Grave
Buried in Shanghai; in 1993 his remains were repatriated and interred at the Seoul National Cemetery.