정부, 유관순 열사 '3•1운동 이후 공적 평가' 훈장 추서할 듯<br /><br />This Friday will mark the 100th anniversary of the March First Movement... carried out to free Korea from Japanese colonial rule.<br />And for the centennial, officials say the government will award a posthumous medal of honor to a heroine of the movement, Yu Gwan-sun.<br />Arrested for organizing protests against Japan at age 17, she was imprisoned and tortured and died before her 18th birthday.<br />Yu was posthumously awarded the Independence Medal in 1962, but this one is different.<br />That was the third highest of five levels of state honors -- this one will be either the first or second highest.
