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Yi Dong-hwi

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Yi Donghwi.

Yi Donghwi (Korean이동휘; Hanja李東煇; August 2, 1873 – January 31, 1935) was a prominent Communist politician of Korea, and the second Prime Minister of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.

In 1911, Yi was exiled in Manchuria and moved to Primorsky Krai. From 1919 to 1921, he was the defense minister of the government in exile in Shanghai.

Yi died in 1935 in Shinhanchon, Vladivostok, Soviet Union, and was reinterred in South Korea in 2007.[1]

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  1. ^ "독립운동가 이동휘 선생 72주기 추모식".
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