Yi Yun-yong

Yi Yun-yong
Yi Yun-yong
Acting Prime Minister of South Korea
	In office; April 24, 1952 – May 6, 1952
Preceded by	Chang Myon
Succeeded by	Jang Taek-sang
Personal details
Born	August 19, 1890; Yŏngbyŏn, P'yŏngan Province, Joseon
Died	October 15, 1975 (aged 85); Seoul, South Korea
Korean name
Hangul	이윤영
Hanja	李允榮
Revised Romanization	I Yun-yeong
McCune–Reischauer	Yi Yunyŏng

Yi Yun-yong (August 19, 1890 – October 15, 1975) was a South Korean politician. He was the acting prime minister of South Korea following Chang Myon.

Biography

Early life and activism

Yi was born in 1890 in Nyongbyon County, and his pen name was Baeksa(白史).He graduated from Sungduk school(a school founded in by American missionary Ethel Esty) in the region, and received l,essons about land surveys from the YMCA.In 1910 he became a principal for a school and graduated from Sungshil instructors school in 1912. In 1916, he became a pastor.While working as a pastor for the Sinchang church, he was arrested for leading lectures for korean independence and served jailtime of 1 year and two months. In 1936, he was against the unification of korean churches with the Japanese churches, fearing the dissolution of korean churches by the japanese authorities. In the context of the Pacific wars, he was fired from his pastor post.

Post-liberation

Directly after liberation of korea in the August of 1945, he became the vice president of the Pyongyang people's committee and participated in the founding of the Korean Social Democratic Party(then known as the Korean Democratic Party) with Cho Man-sik.He defected to South Korea in February of 1946 after it was revealed that he sent a secret letter to Seoul regarding his opinions of being against the trusteeship decision.^[a] ^[1]

Notes

^ The general consensus on the left at the time was consenting to the trusteeship decision made in the 1945 Moscow Conference, where the trusteeship was considered as a option for preparation of the establishment of a untied democratic korean government.