Ballet explores independence fighter's last moments

“I will dance and shout hurrah when I hear the news of Korea's independence in heaven,” independence fighter Ahn Jung-geun said right before he was executed at Lushun Prison in March 1910 for assassinating Hirobumi Ito - a former four-term prime minister of Japan and the first resident-general of Korea while it was a protectorate of the Empire of Japan - at China's Harbin Railway Station in October 1909.

source https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2021/08/690_313834.html?fl

Tags: