Song Kyewŏl

Song Kyewŏl (; 10 December 1911 – 30 May 1933) was a Korean socialist, writer and feminist activist during the period of Japanese rule in Korea.

Biography

Song was born and raised in Pukchong County. Described as "cheerful and passionate", she was the eldest of six children born to Song Ch'iok and Yi SunhÅ­i.

At the age of fifteen years old, she left to pursue her education in Seoul.

There she led three school strikes while attending Keijō Women's Commercial School.

After graduation, she worked as a journalist for the New Women's Journal, and wrote extensively on the discrimination against women.

Then, in 1930, she led the Seoul Female Students' Independence Movement and was imprisoned in Seodaemun Prison.

Death

She died of intestinal tuberculosis in her hometown on 30 May 1933.

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