An Jung-geun was a Korean independence activist and nationalist who assassinated Prince Itō Hirobumi, a four-time Prime Minister of Japan, on October 26, 1909. Prince Itō Hirobumi had been the Resident-General of Korea and was President of the Privy Council of Japan after signing the Eulsa Treaty that brought Korea to the verge of annexation by Japan. An Jung-geun was posthumously awarded South Korea's most prestigious civil decoration, the Order of Merit for National Foundation, in 1962 for his efforts towards Korean independence.
An Jung-geun was a Korean independence activist and nationalist who assassinated Prince Itō Hirobumi, a four-time Prime Minister of Japan, on October 26, 1909. Prince Itō Hirobumi had been the Resident-General of Korea and was President of the Privy Council of Japan after signing the Eulsa Treaty that brought Korea to the verge of annexation by Japan. An Jung-geun was posthumously awarded South Korea's most prestigious civil decoration, the Order of Merit for National Foundation, in 1962 for his efforts towards Korean independence.
An Jung-geun was a Korean independence activist and nationalist who assassinated Prince Itō Hirobumi, a four-time Prime Minister of Japan, on October 26, 1909. Prince Itō Hirobumi had been the Resident-General of Korea and was President of the Privy Council of Japan after signing the Eulsa Treaty that brought Korea to the verge of annexation by Japan. An Jung-geun was posthumously awarded South Korea's most prestigious civil decoration, the Order of Merit for National Foundation, in 1962 for his efforts towards Korean independence.
An Jung-geun was a Korean independence activist and nationalist who assassinated Prince Itō Hirobumi, a four-time Prime Minister of Japan, on October 26, 1909. Prince Itō Hirobumi had been the Resident-General of Korea and was President of the Privy Council of Japan after signing the Eulsa Treaty that brought Korea to the verge of annexation by Japan. An Jung-geun was posthumously awarded South Korea's most prestigious civil decoration, the Order of Merit for National Foundation, in 1962 for his efforts towards Korean independence.
An Jung-geun, sometimes spelled Ahn Jung-geun (Korean pronunciation: [andʑuŋɡɯn]; September
2, 1879 – March 26, 1910; Baptismal name: An Thomas) was a Korean-independence activist,[1][2] [3] nationalist,[4][5] and pan-Asianist.[6][7] On October 26, 1909, he assassinated Prince Itō Hirobumi, a four-time Prime Minister of Japan, former Resident-General of Korea, and then President of the Privy Council of Japan, following the signing of the Eulsa Treaty, with Korea on the verge of annexation by Japan.[8] An was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit for National Foundation in 1962 by the South Korean government, the most prestigious civil decoration in the Republic of Korea, for his efforts for Korean independence