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In his youth, Kim Hyong-gwon studied in Sunhwa school near his home in present-day Mangyongdae, Pyongyang.
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He is known for attacking a Japanese police station in Japanese-occupied of Korea and subsequently dying in Seoul"s Seodaemun Prison where he was serving his sentence. Kim Hyong-gwon was an uncle of North Korean leader Kim Il-sung. As such, he is among the most celebrated Kim family members in North Korean propaganda.
Kimhyonggwon County in North of Korea is named after him.
Kim Hyong-gwon is among the most important Kim family members in propaganda, and comparable in that context to other prominent family members like Kim Il-sung"s father Kim Hyong-jik, or great grandfather Kim Ung-u, who is claimed to have been involved in the General Sherman incident. North Korean propaganda insists that most family members were in some way participating in the foundation of the North Korean state and among them Kim Hyong-gwon is portrayed as having been sacrificed for anti-Japanese struggle and the revolution.
Kim Hyong-gwon was included into the personality cult in 1976. North Korean media uses similar honorifics for him as they use with Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un and Kim Jong-suk.
Kimhyonggwon County, previously known as Pungsan, in southeastern Ryanggang Province, was renamed after him in August 1990.
There is also a Kim Hyong Gwon Teachers" College named after him, and Hamnam University of Education Near 1 was renamed Kim Hyong Gwon University of Education in 1990. Both of them are in Sinpo.
Various sites of honor and statues have been made in Kim"s memory.
Once every five years, a ceremony is held on the days of his death and birth. A North Korean film A Fire Burning All Over the World was made in 1977, and it deals with both Kang Pan-sok and Kim Hyong-gwon"s revolutionary deeds.
The film was also the first one to portray Il-sung.
