Scholar Claims Communists Killed Lyuh Woon-hyung

U Penn professor Lee Jung-sik (a really nice gentleman, BTW) claims it was Southern communists that killed left-wing independence activist Lyuh Woon-hyung, not radical rightists as is commonly believed. UPDATE: The Chosun Ilbo (English) has a better piece on this.

This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on July 19, 2007 at 6:08 pm, filed under Asides, Korean History. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. oranckay your flag
    Posted July 20, 2007 at 4:35 am | Permalink

    “Lyuh”? That’s almost as bad as Chough Soon-hyun (조순형). Maybe it’s something about guys who have names that end in 형.

  2. TomCoyner your flag
    Posted July 21, 2007 at 2:35 am | Permalink

    The rich irony in this story is that virtually the entire leadership of the communist People’s Party of Korea were eventually liquidated by Kim Il-Sung by the mid 1950’s, as part of a purging of all potentially competing political factions to Kim’s own historically narrow power base.

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