Full-scale anti-dictatorship movement in the 60s and 80s
During the 13th and 14th presidential elections,
Even in the 2000s, the Sewol ferry and impeachment…
Always at the front of the people’s movement
On the afternoon of the 15th, citizens give their condolences at the funeral hall of Seoul National University in Hyehwa-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul where the head of the Institute for Unification Studies Paik Ki-wan was prepared. Reporter Kim Myung-jin of the Hankyoreh
“The way I’ve been living is in a word, it’s awkward. It is unusual because the ground is not flat and protrudes. When I pulled out that big trunk, there are one unification fighter and two storytellers. So let’s leave that peculiar history!” Paik Ki-wan said, ‘Finding a Way’ in the past. The 89-year-old life that had been’bulky’ finally flattened at the dawn of the 15th when it rained. As the seasons passed, we walked and went to spring, but he couldn’t cross the seasons with us and entered Yeongmyeon. The teacher was born on January 24th in Gyeyu (1933) at the foot of Mount Guwol, Eunyul, Hwanghae-do, as the fourth of four boys and two girls. After liberation, in 1946, he left his mother, older brother, and older sister in North Korea, and followed his father to Seoul. As the Korean peninsula was divided after liberation, the teacher’s family was divided between the two Koreas, and the unification movement began with the conviction to connect the divided family. It is also said that he was greatly influenced by his grandfather, Paik Tae-ju, who died in prison after being tortured by the Japanese police while providing military funds to the independence army during the Japanese colonial era. The teachings of Kim Gu, who escaped from prison and escaped to his grandfather’s house, and the relationship between Jang Joon-ha and Pastor Moon Ik-hwan, naturally led him to the unification movement. As a child, he attended only 4th grade in elementary school (elementary school) during the colonial period and studied alone, but he drew public attention by memorizing whole English dictionaries and reading literary works such as poetry and novels line by line. As the first beneficiary of the’Overseas Study Incentives’, I was invited to study abroad, but refused, saying, “I cannot go to study alone without my country.”
From 1952, when he was a young man, for 10 years, he ran night school to combat illiteracy, and participated in the urban poor movement, tree planting movement, and farmers movement. Around this time, he was first listed in the media as a peasant activist. On the 3rd page of the newspaper on July 19, 1955, “Baek Ki-wan and 31 students traveled through the Byeokchon region in Gangwon-do for two weeks using the summer vacation starting from the 20th to conduct various enlightenment movements such as illiteracy. It is said to have organized.” In 1957, Mrs. Kim Jong-suk, who had been a lifelong comrade, and a married couple started the anti-dictatorship, democratization struggle and unification movement in earnest as he entered the April 19 Revolutionary Movement in 1960. In 1964, he was imprisoned after struggling against Japan, such as Ham Seok-heon and Jang Joon-ha, against the Korea-Japan agreement. In 1966, opposing the dictatorship of Park Chung-hee Yoo-shin launched an anti-dictatorship. In 1974, he was arrested along with Joonha Jang after being charged with violating the first emergency measure while leading the ‘1 million signing campaign for the constitutional amendment petition of the Yushin Constitution. In 1979, he led the’Myeongdong YWCA’s disguised marriage case’ (a protest demanding the presidential direct system), but was taken by a security company and imprisoned and tortured.
Baek Ki-wan, an eighty-three-year-old who shed tears when participants were arrested by the police during a midwinter march to reinstate Ssangyong Motor’s layoffs and eliminate layoffs in 2015. Photographed by Lee Jeong-yong. Provided by the Institute for Unification Studies
At this time, the teacher lost his mind and woke up during 10 hours of severe torture, and revealed that his poem was’Moonbinari’. Hearing the news of the Gwangju democratization movement in prison in 1980, he appealed to the importance of the anti-dictatorship and democratization movement while he was in prison. Writer Hwang Seok-young wrote’The March for Beings’, a commemorative song for victims of the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Uprising, following a part of Myeonbinari. In 1986, the teacher was arrested for leading the “Kwon In-suk Bucheon Sexual Advisory Contest,” and was sentenced to jail again.The following year, after receiving the demands of students, workers, and the people in the 13th presidential election after the democratization protest, the reader was a popular candidate. Ran for. However, they resigned, appealing for the unification of candidates Kim Young-sam and Kim Dae-jung. He was elected as a popular candidate in the 14th presidential election in 1992, but the real political wall was high. Although he was sick after being imprisoned several times and suffered severe torture, the teacher kept the front row of the assembly for the weak, such as workers, peasants, and demolishers. As an excellent writer, he was at the same time a brilliant speaker. Whenever he stepped up on the podium on the site of the meeting, with his white hair fluttering, the teacher always poured out sentences like vomiting blood. A memorial rally for Kang Gyeong-dae, a student at Myongji University who was killed by Baekgoldan (1991), a rally against dispatch of troops to Iraq (2003), a struggle against the Yongsan disaster (2009), a rally to investigate the truth of the Sewol ferry and the National Intelligence Service’s comment case condemnation (2014), He was always in front of the scenes of popular movements, such as the struggle for the death of Paik Nam-gi (2015) and the impeachment of Park Geun-hye (2016-2017). The teacher, who said, “Walk your life on just one foot (take your foot off)” in Mömbinari, now put everything down and left. No love, no honor, no name left. By Jae-ho Lee, staff reporter [email protected]