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Lee Gun-yeong (이건영,李健榮) (1853–1940)-Eldest brother
Lee Seok-yeong (이석영,李石榮) (1855–1934)-2nd brother, deceased by starvation in Shanghai,China
Lee Cheol-yeong (이철영,李哲榮) (1863–1925)-3rd brother
Lee Si-yeong (이시영,李始榮) (1868–1953)-5th brother
When he arrived in China,he stayed at Manchuria, before moving to Beijing and later Shanghai. He was arrested upon arrival from Shanghai at Dalian,and later imprisoned in the infamous Lushun Prison,and later died on November 17, 1932. However,his cause of death was a mystery, and the Japanese authority claims that he had hanged himself on the window bars of a Police Station, using a hemp cloth.
However, the claim was refuted by the Koreans,as they claimed that he was killed by the Japanese.
Upon his death,his remains was quickly cremated at the same day and his ashes was later brought back to Japan-ruled of Korea,and later re-interred at Seoul National Cemetery, years after the Korean independence. And in 2000,the Chinese Government proclaimed him as a "Patriotic martyr of the anti-imperialism/anti-Japanese revolution" for his struggle against the Japanese Imperialism in China.
In 2010,a 5-part drama series was aired by Korean Broadcasting System in commemorate of his struggle,titled Freedom Fighter, Lee Hoe Young(자유인 이회영) and was aired on August 29, 2010,the date of the centenary of the Forced Annexation of of Korea by Japan.
