Ji Cheong-cheon's Military Command and Legacy

Ji Cheong-cheon

Ji Cheong-cheon was a key military strategist and commander of the Korean independence movement. After graduating from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy, he defected to Manchuria to train independence fighters at the Sinheung Military Academy and lead troops in engagements such as the Battle of Qingshanli. In 1940, he was appointed Supreme Commander of the Korean Liberation Army, the regular armed forces of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in Chongqing. Under his leadership, the army conducted joint operations with Allied forces and special infiltration training with the U.S. OSS. Returning home after liberation, he served as a cabinet minister and lawmaker in South Korea.

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Year	Ji Cheong-cheon
1888	Birth of Ji Cheong-cheon (Period: January 25, 1888 (lunar calendar; some sources convert to solar calendar as February 15, 1888), Location: Samcheong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul Special City, Republic of Korea)
1908	Marriage (Ji Cheong-cheon, Yun Yong-ja, Age: 19 years old, Period: 1908, Location: Details unknown. Thought to be within the Korean Peninsula)
1909	Study at the Imperial Japanese Army Academy (Age: 20 years old, Period: 1909–1914, Location: Tokyo, Japan)
1919	Desertion from the Japanese Army and Exile to China (Ji Cheong-cheon, Age: 30 years old, Period: 1919, Location: From Japan to Northeastern China) Exile to China and Activities at Sinheung Military Academy (Ji Cheong-cheon, Age: 30 years old, Period: 1919, Location: Northeastern China, Sinheung Military Academy)
1920	Reorganization of Inter-connected Independence Army Organizations (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1920, Location: Northeastern China, around Gando and Antu) Inauguration as Military Commissioner and Commander of Jeonguibu (Ji Cheong-cheon, Age: 31 years old, Period: Mid-1920s, Location: Northeastern China, Southern Manchuria)
1921	Inauguration as Principal of the Goryeo Revolutionary Military Academy (Ji Cheong-cheon, Age: 32 years old, Period: 1921, Location: Around Irkutsk, Russia) Free City Incident (Free City Affair / Heihe Incident, Age: 33 years old, Period: June 1921, Location: Russian Far East, Free City (present-day near Svobodny, Amur Oblast))
1930	Establishment and Guidance of the Korean Special Class at Luoyang Military Academy (Age: 41 years old, Period: Early to mid-1930s, Location: Luoyang, Henan Province, China)
1931	Manchurian Incident (Age: 42 years old, Period: September 1931–1933, Location: Northeastern China (Manchuria)) Inauguration as Commander-in-Chief of the Korean Independence Army (Ji Cheong-cheon, Age: 42 years old, Period: 1931, Location: Northeastern China) Manchurian Incident (Age: 43 years old, Period: From September 18, 1931 onward, Location: Northeastern China)
1933	Disarmament of the Korean Independence Army (Age: 44 years old, Period: Around 1933, Location: Northeastern China)
1939	World War II (Age: 50 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Europe, North Africa, Asia-Pacific, etc. (no combat occurred within Turkey)) Inauguration as Minister of Military Affairs of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (Ji Cheong-cheon, Age: 50 years old, Period: 1939, Location: Chongqing, China)
1940	Inauguration as Commander-in-Chief of the Korean Liberation Army (Ji Cheong-cheon, Age: 52 years old, Period: September 17, 1940, Location: Chongqing, China)
1945	Return to Korea and Political Activities after Liberation (Ji Cheong-cheon, Age: 56 years old, Period: 1945 onward, Location: Southern Korean Peninsula, Seoul)
1957	Death of Ji Cheong-cheon (Age: 68 years old, Period: January 15, 1957. Died in Seoul)
1994	Death (Age: 37 years after death, Period: April 1951, Location: Pyongyang)

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Group	List
CPC	Chen Duxiu Li Dazhao Mao Zedong Zhou Enlai Zhu De Liu Shaoqi Peng Dehuai Lin Biao Deng Xiaoping Chen Yi
Korean anti-Japanese movement	Kim Il Sung Kim Won-bong Hong Beom-do Ji Cheong-cheon Yang Se-bong Choe Yong-gon Kim Chwa-chin
Pacific War	Fumimaro Konoe Hideki Tojo Yosuke Matsuoka Shigenori Togo Kantaro Suzuki Korechika Anami Isoroku Yamamoto Chuichi Nagumo Kichisaburo Nomura Saburo Kurusu Hirohito

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