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Lee Yung(Korean: 이영; Hanja:李英; April 1, 1889 - August 13, 1960) is a social activist at Korea under Japanese rule, pro-Japanese communist activist, and politician of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Early life
Youth and middle age
Born in Naha-daeri, Bukcheong-myeon, Bukcheong-gun, Hamgyeong-do, Joseon, and once spent his early childhood in Hamheung, Hamgyeong-do, he went on an independence movement in Shanghai, Jiangsu Province, China in 1912, and entered Nankai Business School in Jiangsu Province, China in 1913, but dropped out in 1914. Later, he returned to his native country of Joseon in 1914 and participated in the March 1st Movement in Bukcheong, Hamgyeongnam-do in 1919, but was arrested soon after and imprisoned in Gyeongseong. He was later released from prison in 1920. He later served as a member of the Seoul Youth Association's Beginner Administrative Committee in 1921. Later, when the Communist Party of Korea was formed in 1925, he did not participate in the Communist Party of Korea in conflict with the "Hwayohoe." In 1928, he was arrested by the Japanese police for four years and was released from prison in 1932.
After liberation
From 1933 to 1937, after consideration and idleness and administrative jobs position, 1945 in 1938 the Communist Party standing committee of the Communist Party of Korea to the position and to ripeness to flower in an advisory role. During 1945, now seeing Korea achieved independence from Japanese occupation gyeongseongbu.
After that, he defected to North Korea in December 1946 after serving as the deputy director of planning for the Central People's Committee of the People's Republic of Korea, and participated in the meeting of representatives of social organizations related to political parties on both sides of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in April 1948. On September 9, 1948, when the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was founded, he was elected to the post of vice-chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly of the North Korean People's Republic of Korea. After the three-year Korean War, he assumed the chairmanship of the Supreme People's Assembly of the North Korean People's Assembly on December 1, 1953 and served as a member of the Supreme Council of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland. After his death, he was buried in the Patriotic Martyrs' Tomb of North Korea.
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