Independence activist and leader of the Korean Revolutionary Party, killed in the 1938 Nanmuting incident
| Life | 1890 ~ 1938 |
| Era | 일제강점기 |
| Clan | 연주 현씨 |
Hyeon Ik-cheol (1890-1938), from Bakcheon in North Pyongan, was an independence activist of the Yeonju Hyeon clan, pen name Mukgwan, married to Bang Sun-hui. After the March First Movement he went into exile in Manchuria and joined the Hanjokhoe.
Jailed for three years in 1921, he returned to Manchuria in 1924, took part in founding the Jeongui-bu (1925) and the Goryeo Revolutionary Party (1926), and championed the single national party movement. Arrested in Mukden in 1931 and sentenced to seven years, he escaped and reached Shanghai.
He rebuilt the Joseon Revolutionary Party in Nanjing in 1937. In May 1938, at a unification meeting in Changsha with Kim Gu, he was shot dead by Yi Un-han. He received the Order of Merit for National Foundation in 1962 and was named Independence Activist of the Month in September 2006.
After the March First Movement he worked in the Hanjokhoe, Jeongui-bu and Goryeo Revolutionary Party, and actively joined the single national party movement.
He was arrested in Mukden, sentenced in Sinuiju, escaped abroad and rebuilt the party in Nanjing.
Shooting broke out at a May 1938 unification meeting in Changsha and he died; Kim Gu was also gravely wounded. The grade of his decoration is written inconsistently on Wikipedia.
Information on his grave was not confirmed.