문 대통령 독립운동가 묘역 참배<br /><br />This Friday will be the 100th anniversary of the March 1st Independence Movement... in which Koreans demanded liberation from Japanese imperial rule.<br />President Moon Jae-in, this morning, paid tribute to those independence fighters.<br />He visited the cemetery where Korea buried the founding members of its provisional government which was set up in April 1919 in Shanghai.<br />That cemetary is in Hyochang Park in Seoul.<br />The tribute to those independence fighters represents President Moon's recognition of the provisional government as the direct predecessor of the present-day Republic of Korea.<br />That's in contrast to earlier administrations whose view was that the Republic of Korea began with the nation's liberation much later in 1945.
