At the time of writing these words, Jin Jiu was living in exile with the provisional government of the Republic of Korea in China, 5000 miles away from home. Since the establishment of 19 19, this government in exile has suffered a lot, not only has it not been recognized by any country since its establishment; With the continuous advance of the Japanese invaders, the office address in China was also moved from Shanghai to Chongqing, making Chongqing once the government office of China and South Korea.
19 10 After the merger of Japan and South Korea, Korean intellectuals living in exile in Shanghai held a representative meeting in April 19 at Xuandai Mansion, Route Pere Robert No.22, Shanghai French Concession, and decided to set up a provisional parliament as the highest public opinion organ. The next day, the first meeting of the Provisional Legislative Council of the Republic of Korea was held, and Article 10 of the Provisional Treaty of the Republic of Korea was enacted, and Li Chengwan was elected as the Prime Minister and the ministers of internal affairs, foreign affairs and legal affairs, and the provisional government of the Republic of Korea was established.
The newly established interim government is not only worried about the external environment, but also full of contradictions inside. After Li Chengwan was sworn in as the interim president of the Republic of Korea, he refused to leave Washington for a long time and refused to hand over the administrative jurisdiction to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea in Shanghai. Li tried to raise himself through diplomatic activities, and tried to cut off the financial resources of the troubled Shanghai provisional government by using the names of big countries such as Europe and the United States. Therefore, in March of 1925, the Senate of Shanghai Provisional Government finally decided to impeach Li Chengwan, and Jin Jiu became the head of the provisional government in the late 1920s. Later, in September of 1940 and 17, the general headquarters of the Korean Recovery Army was established in Chongqing, with General Li Qingtian as the commander-in-chief and General Fan Li Hyun as the chief of staff.
At that time, in addition to the provisional government of the Republic of Korea in Shanghai, the Korean Peninsula and the Soviet Union also had the parliamentary government of the Republic of Korea, the provisional government of the Republic of Korea, the provisional government of Seoul, the non-governmental government of Korea, the provisional government of the new Republic of Korea and so on. There has been a situation in which the governments of Russia, China and South Korea coexist. In order to solve this problem, the provisional government of the Republic of Korea in Shanghai absorbed the parliamentary government of the Republic of Korea in the form of constitutional amendment in September, and then integrated with the provisional government of Seoul to establish a single and unified provisional government of the Republic of Korea.
The Republic of Korea officially abolished the monarchy and established the Republic of China in Shanghai; Elected the first president, the first prime minister and all the first ministerial officials in history; Held the first meeting of government representatives in the history of the Republic of Korea; Established the first parliament in the history of the Republic of Korea; Adopted the first constitution in the history of the Republic of Korea; Today's Korean government also takes the year 19 19, when the provisional government was established in Shanghai, as the first year of the founding of the Republic of Korea.
Today's Shanghai still retains the former site of the provisional government of the Republic of Korea (now No.4, Lane 306, Madang Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai). Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea, successive presidents of South Korea, Lu Taiyu, Jin Yongsan, Kim Dae-jung, Roh Moo-hyun (July 2003 10), Lee Myung-bak (April 30, 1965, 438+00) and park geun-hye (September 4, 1965, 438+05) have all visited. The former office in Chongqing is located at No.38, Lianhuachi, Qixinggang, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, China. Moon Jae in visited it (on 20 17 12 16).