Unfortunate independence activists Jeon Myung-woon and Jang In-hwan

 Jeon Myung-woon (1884-1947) immigrated to Hawaii in 1905, worked on a farm for a year, and then moved to San Francisco in 1906. He became a member of the Public Association, an independent anti-Japanese organization, while serving as a worker at railroad construction sites and Alaska fishing grounds. In 1908, pro-Japanese group American D.W. Stevens, an external adviser to the Korean government, returned home on vacation and decided to kill him after making remarks praising Japan's invasion of Korea at a press conference. While Stevens was taking advantage of the opportunity to get off at Oakland Station with a Japanese consul in San Francisco, hitting him with a ball of iron and fighting, Jang In-hwan, who was waiting for the same purpose, shot Stevens and seriously injured him. Jang In-hwan was arrested as an accomplice, but was acquitted and released. That year, he went to Vladivostok, Russia, to continue his independence movement, and then to San Francisco again in 1909. He lived in Los Angeles since 1930 and died in 1947 after a miserable life. In 1962, the Presidential Medal of the Order of Merit for National Foundation was awarded. 

Jang In-hwan [1876.3.10-1930.5.22] was born in Pyongyang on March 10, 1876. He loses his parents when he was young and gives up his studies and becomes a Christian. He moved to Maui in 1905 as a Hawaiian immigrant, then went to the United States the following year to work as a railroad worker and an Alaskan fisherman, and joined the Daedong National Assembly. In March 1908, when D.W. Stevens, an external adviser to the Korean government, returned home on vacation and volunteered to hold a press conference to justify and support Japan's invasion of Korea, he decided to kill him. Stephens tried to take advantage of the opportunity to get off at Oakland Station with a consul in San Francisco, but when he saw Jeon Myung-woon, a Korean bloodthirsty young man, first attacked and fought with a ball of iron, he shot Stephens with a pistol and killed him two days later. As a result of the trial, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison, but he was released after 10 years for patriotism and polite behavior. In 1927, he returned to Korea with the welcome of Cho Man-sik and others, married 51-year-old Yun Chi-bok, and returned to the United States to do laundry, but committed suicide after suffering from illness in San Francisco. In 1962, the Presidential Medal of the Order of Merit for National Foundation was awarded.