Homer Bezaleel Hulbert (January 26, 1863 – August 5, 1949) was an American missionary, journalist, linguist, and Korean independence activist.

[5] He resigned his position as a teacher in a public middle school, and in October 1905, he went to the United States as an emissary of Emperor Gojong to protest Japan's actions.

[6] After returning to the Korean Empire in 1906, he was sent as part of a secret delegation from Gojong to the Second International Peace Conference in The Hague in June 1907.

The Korean delegation failed to gain a hearing with other world powers, and the Japanese used Gonjong's actions as a pretext to force him to abdicate.

[7] The South Korean government posthumously awarded Hulbert the Order of Merit for National Foundation.

[8] He also made the first hangul (Korean) textbook Samin p'ilchi 사민필지 ("Essential Knowledge for Scholars and Commoners").