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Yi Dong-hwi

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Yi Donghwi.

Yi Donghwi (이동휘 (李東煇); August 2, 1873 ~ January 31, 1935) was a prominent socialist 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 defense minister of the government in exile in Shanghai.

Yi died in 1935 in Shinhanchon in Vladivostok, USSR and re-interred in South Korea in 2007.[1]

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