Independence patriot · Manchuria region · Order of Patriotic Merit (Aegukjang, 1990)
| Life | 1865 ~ 1932 |
| Era | 근현대 |
| Clan | 덕수 이씨 |
Yi Gyu-pung, of the Deoksu Yi clan and a tenth-generation descendant of Admiral Yi Sun-sin, was born in Asan, South Chungcheong Province. In 1909 he helped organize a volunteer militia with An Jung-geun and Yi Beom-yun in Vladivostok, fighting Japanese forces around Hoeryeong and Gyeongwon in North Hamgyeong Province, and after the March First Movement he was named an adjudicator (pyeongjeonggwan) alongside Bak Eun-sik and Sin Chae-ho at the National Assembly convened in Gyeongseong in 1919.
Representing the Russian Maritime Province, he attended the National Reform Delegates' Conference in Suifenhe, Jilin Province, in March 1920, after which he shifted course and, in March 1926, helped organize the Goryeo Revolutionary Party with Yang Gi-tak, Jeong I-hyeong, and Kim Bong-guk, continuing his independence activities between Manchuria and Siberia. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit for National Foundation, Patriotic Order, in 1990.