'On the 107th anniversary of the March 1st Movement, Seo Kyoung-duk, a professor at Sungshin Women's University, and actress Song Hyekyo once again joined forces. The two produced a multilingual video spotlighting lesser-known women independence activists and this year revealed another woman independence activist at home and abroad.
Professor Seo unveiled the women independence activist promotion project he worked on with Song Hyekyo via SNS on the 1st, March 1st. The featured subject this time is Nam Ja-hyun, a woman independence activist who "broke the framework of her time." The roughly four-minute video was planned by Professor Seo and sponsored by Song Hyekyo, and was produced with Korean and English narration so that internet users around the world can watch it together. It is currently spreading via YouTube, SNS and overseas Korean communities.
The video covers her background and main activities, including participating in the March 1st Movement and then fleeing to Manchuria at age 47 to launch full-scale independence activities. It especially highlights the anecdote in which she wrote a blood oath urging unity among independence groups, and, when Japan established a puppet state in Manchuria, cut her own fingernail cloth and sent a "Joseon Independence Institute" blood oath to the League of Nations.
Professor Seo said, "I wanted to widely publicize the lives of women independence activists who are not well known at home and abroad," and added, "This is the sixth video following Jeong Jeong-hwa, Yun Hee-sun, Kim Maria, Park Cha-jung and Kim Hyang-hwa." He went on to say, "We plan to continue producing the multilingual series to introduce them to the world."
This is not the first time the two have collaborated. Last March 1st, they produced and released a multilingual video on woman independence activist Park Cha-jung. It detailed her roles as a special envoy of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, a key executive of the Geunwoohoe, founder of the Nanjing Korean Women's Association, and instructor at the Joseon Revolutionary Military and Political Officers School. It especially emphasized that, after Yu Gwan-sun, she was the second woman independence activist to be posthumously awarded the Order of Merit for National Foundation, Independence Medal.
Over the past 15 years, Seo Kyoung-duk and Song Hyekyo have donated Korean-language guides, Korean-language signs and relief works of independence activists to 37 independence movement sites abroad. Their projects carried out every March 1st not only reexamine forgotten independence activists but also play a role in informing the world about Korea's history.<
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