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Ryeo Yeon-gu
The older sister of Ryeo Won-gu, Ryeo was born in Shanghai, where their father, the anti-Japanese activist, Yeo Un-hyung (1885-1947), was in exile.
RYEO YEON-GU (1927-1996). The older sister of Ryeo Won-gu, Ryeo was born in Shanghai, China, where their father, the anti-Japanese campaigner, Yeo Un-hyeong (1885-1947), was in exile. She attended Ewha Womans University in Seoul but quickly dropped out and, like her sister, she moved to Pyongyang in 1946. She remained there for the rest of her life. What she did from 1946 to 1981 is not clear, for it was only in the latter year that she began to make public appearances, mainly in organizations connected with united front work, such as the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland, of which she was co-chair, or various bodies connected with overseas Koreans. Elected to the seventh Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) in 1982, she became a vice chair of the presidium in 1983, a position she held until her death. She was also an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Korean Workers' Party and a permanent member of the
Central Committee of the Korean Women's Democratic League. In 1991, she headed the Democratic People's Republic of Korea delegation to the Second Conference on Asia's Peace and Women's Role, held in Seoul in the Republic of Korea. During this visit, she laid a wreath on her parents' grave, which she said had been given to her by DPRK leader President Kim Il Sung. She was a member of the funeral committee for Kim Il Sung in 1994 and for O Jin-u in 1995. She received the Order of Kim Il Sung award in 1987. She died in September 1996.
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Central Committee of the Korean Women's Democratic League. In 1991, she headed the Democratic People's Republic of Korea delegation to the Second Conference on Asia's Peace and Women's Role, held in Seoul in the Republic of Korea. During this visit, she laid a wreath on her parents' grave, which she said had been given to her by DPRK leader President Kim Il Sung. She was a member of the funeral committee for Kim Il Sung in 1994 and for O Jin-u in 1995. She received the Order of Kim Il Sung award in 1987. She died in September 1996.
All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher. (Historical Dictionary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, by James E. Hoare, published by RLPG Books, appears by permission of the author and publisher).
