Danjae Sin Chae-ho Birthplace Site

This is the birthplace of Sin Chae-ho (pen name Danjae, 1880–1936). Sin was active as a historian, journalist and independence activist during the late Korean Empire and the Japanese colonial period; he became a doctor of the Seonggyungwan at the age of twenty-six but gave up any intention of entering government service and instead became a reporter for the Hwangseong sinmun. When the Hwangseong sinmun was shut down in 1905, he was invited the following year to become chief editorial writer of the Daehan maeil sinbo, where he wrote forthright editorials that enlightened the people and admonished the government. In April 1910, the year of the Japan–Korea annexation, he went into exile and, in Vladivostok, carried out independence activities together with members of the Sinminhoe. When the Provisional Government was established immediately after the March First Movement of 1919, he opposed President Rhee Syng-man's proposal for a mandate government. In 1923, the "Declaration of the Korean Revolution", which he wrote to set out the ideology and direction of the Uiyeoldan, is regarded as one of the most robust, powerful and finely argued documents in the history of the anti-Japanese national movement, setting forth the theory and direction of the independence struggle. In 1928 he was arrested by the Japanese police in Taiwan and imprisoned in Lüshun Prison, where he died of a cerebral haemorrhage while serving his sentence, giving his life for the nation. In the summer of 1992, his birthplace was excavated and investigated, and it was restored on the basis of testimony gathered from local residents.

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Where it is

Region

Jung-gu, Daejeon

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물