Background
Park first came to the United States in 1900 with Yi Gang, fifth son of Emperor Gojong. The two studied together at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia.
Park first came to the United States in 1900 with Yi Gang, fifth son of Emperor Gojong. The two studied together at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia.
Roanoke College.
After his graduation, Park established a mining school in his homeland, but soon returned to North America, where he first went to Mexico in August 1905 before coming to Colorado in January 1906. He hoped to campaign for of Korea"s freedom at the 1908 Democratic National Convention, but was killed under mysterious circumstances in a suspected assassination in 1907 and buried in an unmarked grave at Denver"s Riverside Cemetery, where he lay forgotten for almost a century. In 2003, South Korean scholars doing research on immigration to the United States, having found records about Park in of Korea, began to look through Denver cemetery records in an attempt to find him.