Yi Si-yeong (Korean: 이시영; Hanja: 李始榮; December 3, 1868 – April 19, 1953) was a Korean politician, independence activist, educator and neo-Confucianist scholar.
[1] Yi resigned after the National Defense Corps incident of 1951.
His art names were Seongjae (성재; 省齋) or Sirimsanin (시림산인; 始林山人).
Before the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, he had served for Joseon as the Governor of South Pyongan Province and the President of Hansung Law Court.
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