Kim Hyun-soo, Suwon City First Vice Mayor, Presents Resident Registration Certificate to Patriotic Independence Fighter Oh Seong-gyu

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Jung Jun-sung] First Vice Mayor Kim Hyun-soo of Suwon City visited the Veterans Care Center on the 19th and presented a Suwon City resident registration certificate to patriotic independence fighter Oh Seong-gyu (100).

Patriotic independence fighter Oh Seong-gyu conducted anti-Japanese resistance activities during the Japanese colonial period, including with Lee Young-soon and Jo Seung-hoe, centered around Donggwang Middle School in Fengcheng, Manchuria, China, by establishing a secret organizational network. When the network was exposed to the Japanese, he fled Manchuria and continued independence activities while serving in the third detachment of the Korean Liberation Army in Anhui Province, China.

In May 1945, he underwent U.S.-Korean joint special training (O.S.S) and was preparing domestic operations when liberation was achieved. After liberation, he served as a special envoy in the Shanghai district of the 'Korean Liberation Army Military Special Missions Unit' organized for expatriate protection and ideological warfare operations.

After liberation, amid political turmoil, he moved to Japan and resided there. Having expressed his wish to the Veterans Affairs Ministry to "spend the final years of my life in the Republic of Korea," he returned to Korea on August 13 and was admitted to the Veterans Care Center (97 Gwanggyo Mountain-ro, Jangan-gu) on August 31.

First Vice Mayor Kim Hyun-soo welcomed patriotic independence fighter Oh Seong-gyu, who has now become a Suwon City resident, and presented him with a resident registration certificate and a bouquet of flowers, saying, "I hope you have a wonderful Chuseok holiday in your home country."

First Vice Mayor Kim Hyun-soo then met with Director Jung In-chae of the Veterans Care Center, Director Kim Jung-myeon of the Veterans Long-term Care Facility, and Vice President Im Hwa-chul of the Veterans Welfare Town Residents Association and visited the three institutions to offer condolences ahead of Chuseok.