Kim Hyŏnggwŏn

He is known for attacking a Japanese police station in Japanese-occupied Korea and subsequently dying in Seoul's Seodaemun Prison where he was serving his sentence.

In his youth, Kim Hyŏnggwŏn studied in Sunhwa school near his home in present-day Mangyongdae, Pyongyang.

[5] In August 1930, he led a small detachment of guerrillas across the Amnok (Yalu) river to Japanese-occupied Korea from Manchuria.

He died on 12 January 1936, during his sentence in Seoul's Seodaemun Prison,[9][10][11] where anti-Japanese dissidents were detained from 1910 to 1945 in cruel conditions.

[12] Kim Il Sung remarks in his autobiography With the Century, that it was a corrupt yet close Manchurian local official, Chae Jin-yong, who betrayed his uncle and became an informer against him.

[16] There is also a Kim Hyong Gwon Teachers' College named after him, and Hamnam University of Education Nr.

The barracks of Seodaemun Prison during winter.
Seodaemun Prison, where Kim Hyŏnggwŏn died, was used for keeping anti-colonial activists in custody.