Kim Hyong Kwon

Kim Hyong-gwon
Kim Hyong-gwon in prison with a name tag
Born	(1905-11-04)4 November 1905 Nam Ri, Kopyong Sub-county, Taedong County, South Pyongan Province, Korea (present day Mangyongdae-guyok, Pyongyang, North Korea)
Died	12 January 1936(1936-01-12) (aged 30) (in captivity) Seodaemun Prison, Seoul, Korea
Nationality	Korean
Occupation	Guerrilla
Organization	Young Communist League of Korea
Korean name
Chosŏn'gŭl	김형권
Hancha	金亨權
McCune–Reischauer	Kim Hyŏnggwŏn

Kim Hyong-gwon (Hangul: 김형권; 4 November 1905 – 12 January 1936) was a Korean revolutionary. He is known for attacking a Japanese police station in Japanese-occupied Korea and subsequently dying in Seoul's Seodaemun Prison where he was serving his sentence.

Kim Hyong-gwon was an uncle of North Korean leader Kim Il-sung. As such, he is among the most celebrated Kim family members in North Korean propaganda. Kimhyonggwon County in North Korea is named after him.

In his youth, Kim Hyong-gwon studied in Sunhwa school near his home in present-day Mangyongdae, Pyongyang.

Kim was a revolutionary fighter and an active communist in the 1930s. His personality has been described as "hot-tempered". In August 1930, he led a small detachment of guerrillas across the Amnok (Yalu) river to Japanese-occupied Korea from Manchuria. His small group's actions near Pungsan at that time got noticed by the Japanese press. He captured two Japanese police cars, and both of these acts occurred in mountainous terrain. Some time after attacking a Japanese police station in Pungsan, he was arrested near Hongwon. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison when he was 28 years old. He died on 12 January 1936, during his sentence in Seoul's Seodaemun Prison, where anti-Japanese dissidents were detained from 1910 to 1945 in cruel conditions.

Kim Il-sung remarks in his autobiography With the Century, that it was a corrupt yet close Manchurian local official, Chae Jin Yong, who betrayed his uncle and became an informer against him.