[SBS News] First Provisional Government and Choi Pechik

The New Year is a 100-year anniversary of the establishment of the Declaration of Independence and Provisional Government. If the interim government, people think of Shanghai temporary government. However, the first provisional government established by the Korean people during the Japanese colonial rule was the Korean National Assembly, which was created in February, 1919, at the excellent risk of the Russian Maritime Province.

In the same year, after declaring independence on March 1, the Provisional Government of Shanghai and the Provisional Government of Hanseong Province were established in April, and the Korean National Assembly was established two months earlier and 3.1 before the declaration of independence.

However, due to geographical, political and diplomatic conditions, the interim government was integrated into Shanghai in September 1919, and the existence of the Korean National Assembly and the Independent Activists of the Maritime Provinces was also forgotten. Moreover, after the liberation, the independence movement of the former Soviet Union It was not easy to do, and as the years passed, it became hard to find evidence.

There are many forgotten people behind the history of the Maritime Independence Movement, which we did not know well. Choi Jae - hyung is a hidden independence activist.

Choi Jae Hyung was a novi of Joseon who moved to the Maritime Province in 1869 when he was nine years old. It will grow into a rejection against the Russian army that has advanced into the Far East because of the military goods business such as inorganic food. Having overcome all kinds of contempt and prejudice and accumulating tremendous wealth, he helped settlers from that time and jumped into anti-Japanese movement.

The Marines of the Maritime Province called him Petchka.

It was nickname of his Russian name, Pyotr, but it was a ritualistic expression of his warm heart in the Russian word meaning fireplace.

His life is a testament to us today, living 100 years from now.

<NewsTri> is the first broadcast of the year 2019, and the coverage of the excellent risk in Russia. Through the life of the first interim government and the maritime independence activist Choi Jae-hyung that we did not know well, the national consciousness and the true noblesse oblige .

(Written by: Kim Hee-nam / Image: Kim Cho Ae / Scripter: Kim Jin-ah)