Song HyeKyo and Professor Seo KyungDeok Highlight Kim Maria, Spreading Worldwide

Actress Song HyeKyo and Professor Seo KyungDeok from Sungshin Women’s University have released a multilingual video titled “Joseon’s Revolutionary Heroine Kim Maria” to commemorate the upcoming “Martyrs’ Day.” This project focuses on shedding light on the relatively less known female independence activists in Korea’s history of independence movements.

The 4-minute and 30-second video was planned by Professor Seo KyungDeok and produced with the support of Song HyeKyo. It is spreading widely both domestically and internationally with narration in Korean and English. The video details the process by which Kim Maria, dressed in a kimono, smuggled the “2.8 Declaration of Independence” into Korea and distributed it nationwide to facilitate the activities of male independence activists evading Japanese surveillance. It also reexamines various independence movements, such as raising military funds and delivering them to the provisional government through the women’s secret society “Korean Patriotic Women’s Association” that she organized.

Professor Seo mentioned that this is the third video produced following those of Jung JungHwa and Yoon HeeSoon, stating, “We aim to reexamine the lives of female independence activists who are not well-known to the public and to widely publicize their achievements both domestically and internationally.” He also added, “We plan to continuously produce a series of multilingual videos on more female independence activists in the future.”

Meanwhile, for the past 13 years, Professor Seo KyungDeok and Song HyeKyo have been showing their patriotism by donating Korean language guides, Hangeul signs, and bas-relief works of independence activists to 37 sites of Korean independence movement heritage overseas. We look forward to seeing what new projects they will bring to inspire us in the future.

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