나석주 羅錫疇

Independence patriot · Member of the Heroic Corps (Uiyeoldan) · Bombing attack on the Oriental Development Company and the Chosen Industrial Bank (1926) · Order of Merit for National Foundation, Presidential Medal (1962)

나석주 portrait — Photo: Public domain (PD-old, 작자 미상, 1938년 이전 사진) — Wikimedia Commons, File:나석주.jpg (180×300 저해상도) · Wikimedia Commons

Life	1892 ~ 1926
Era	근현대
Clan	나주 나씨

Life & career

Na Seok-ju (1892–1926) was an independence activist known for armed resistance against Japanese rule. His clan seat was Naju and he came from Jaeryeong County, Hwanghae Province. He studied the Chinese classics at a village school, graduated from Bomyeong School, and in 1914 moved to Manchuria, where he received military training at the Donglin Military School in Wangqing County.

Around 1920 he raised funds in Hwanghae Province for the Korean Provisional Government and independence groups in Manchuria. As the Japanese police closed in, he fled to Shanghai in 1921. He joined the Korean Veterans' Association, trained at a Chinese military school in Handan and served as an officer in the Chinese army. In 1924 he joined the Heroic Corps and was appointed a security officer of the Provisional Government's Police Bureau, working under Kim Gu.

In 1926 he was chosen to carry out a plan devised by Kim Chang-suk and slipped into Korea through Incheon in December. On 28 December he threw a bomb into the Chosen Industrial Bank in Seoul; when it failed to explode he went straight to the Seoul branch of the Oriental Development Company, shot staff members and threw another bomb, then exchanged fire with pursuing Japanese police in the street. Surrounded, he cried out to his twenty million compatriots never to stop fighting and shot himself in the chest. In hospital he identified himself as Na Seok-ju of the Heroic Corps before he died.

He was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit for National Foundation, Presidential Medal, in 1962. A statue and a memorial stone stand on the former site of the Oriental Development Company in Myeong-dong, Seoul.

Grave

Seoul National Cemetery (Dongjak-gu, Seoul), according to the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs e-Gonghun archive

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