Actress donates pamphlets to historic building in China

Seo Kyung-duk, left, and Song Hye-kyo

Actress Song Hye-kyo and Professor Seo Kyung-duk of Sungshin Women’s University will provide information pamphlets for the building of the now-defunct Provisional Government of Korea in Hangzhou, China.

Seo said he and Song have decided to donate 10,000 Korean information pamphlets in commemoration of the provisional government and its efforts for independence from Japan, which ruled Korea from 1910 to 1945.

The government-in-exile was established on April 13, 1919, in Shanghai. It moved to Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, in 1932 to avoid a crackdown by the Japanese colonialists.

The pamphlets will introduce the provisional government and carry a chronological table of the independence movement _ Korean military and diplomatic campaigns _ to achieve independence from Japan. It will also contain details about a hideout maintained for Kim Gu, the leader of the movement.

Song and Seo also donated pamphlets to the Ahn Jung-geun memorial center in Harbin, China, in October. In April 2012, Song also covered the cost for the production of a new set of pamphlets for the building of the Provisional Government of Korea in Shanghai. She donated guidebooks to the Museum of Modern Art in New York in January 2012.