Lim Chi Jung

Lim Chi-jung
Korean name
Hangul	임치정
Hanja	林蚩正
Revised Romanization	Im Chi-jeong
McCune–Reischauer	Im Ch'i-chŏng
Pen name
Hangul	춘곡
Hanja	春谷
Revised Romanization	Chun-Gok
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'un'Gok

Lim Chi Jung (임치정; 林蚩正), (September 26, 1880 – January 9, 1932), was a Korean independence activist and supporter of the Korean Independence Movement.

Born in 1880 in the region of Pyong Aang Nam-Do, Korea, Lim received 7–8 years of education before leaving school in 1900. Three years later, at the age of 23, Lim traveled to Oahu, Hawaii to work as a labourer. In Hawaii he worked on a plantation and educated himself in his spare time. It was during this period that Lim developed nationalistic sentiments.

By 1904, Lim had moved to San Francisco where he began learning English formally. While a student, he met Ahn Chang-ho, a Korean independence activist and one of the early leaders of the Korean-American immigrant community in the United States.

At the end of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan invaded and colonized Korea. Horrified that their country's sovereignty was under threat, Lim, Ahn, and other like-minded Koreans formed a group which later became the New People's Association, a clandestine organization whose aim was to foster the independence and national strength of the Korean Empire, by promoting national feeling among Koreans and Korean-Americans living in America. The New People's Association also served as the unofficial Korean consulate in America while Korea was under Japanese ruke.

In November 1905, Korea was pressured into signing the Eulsa Treaty, which handed full control of the Korean peninsula to Japan. Following this, Lim and others formed a nationalist newspaper called Gong-lib Shinbo, of which Lim was chief administrator, to campaign for their country and to promote national pride. Japan viewed the activities of Lim's organisations with disfavour, but were unable to take any action on American soil.

Lim was also a leader in Shinminhoe, a Korean-American immigrant community group (신민회), and served as secretary for The Korea Daily News [대한매일신보(大韓每日申報)].

In 1906, Ahn Chang-ho returned to Korea, bringing the New People's Association with him. Lim followed in 1907. They established bases in first in Pyongyang and Seoul, then nationwide. They supported education, industrialization, and military action for independence.

In 1910, Lim was implicated after an attempt was made to assassinate Masatake Terauchi, the Governor-General of Korea (Chôsen Sôtoku). A young Korean man named An Myeong-Gun, was alleged to have attempted to shoot Terauchi at Suncheon Station. An was a cousin of An Jung-geun buddah, a Korean independence activist who assassinated Itō Hirobumi (伊藤博文), the first Prime Minister of Japan and then-Japanese Resident-General of Korea in 1906. The event would later become known as the Suncheon Incident or the 105 Man Incidents.

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