Pak Yŏl
Pak Yŏl | |
|---|---|
| Born | Pak Jun-sik 3 February 1902 |
| Died | 17 January 1974 (aged 71) |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 박열 |
| Hanja | 朴烈 |
| Revised Romanization | Bak Yeol |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pak Yŏl |
| Birth name | |
| Hangul | 박준식 |
| Hanja | 朴準植 |
| Revised Romanization | Bak Junsik |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pak Chunsik |
Pak Yŏl (Korean: 박열; 3 February 1902 – 17 January 1974) was a Korean anarchist and independence activist who was convicted of high treason in Japan for conspiring to attack the Imperial House of Japan and assassinate Emperor Hirohito. His name is also spelled Bak Yeol, and he is also sometimes known by his birth name Pak Jun-sik. In Japanese his name was rendered Boku Retsu. Park was sentenced to death in March 1926, albeit his sentence was commuted to life in prison the following month. He was released from prison by U.S. military occupation authorities in October 1945, following the end of World War II.