Kim Bong-gyu (1892-1968) is a patriotic fighter who played a leading role in a mass rally held in his hometown as part of the 1919 March First Independence Movement (March 1st Movement). His activities as a freedom fighter also include participation in joint efforts with other patriots, such as Song Du-hwan, Choe Yun-dong and Yi Su-yeong, to collect war funds in the Daegu area in 1920 and send them to the Provisional Government of Korea in Shanghai, China. He later extended his fund-raising activity to the Daegu's neighboring areas' limited wealth, keen in taking part in the pro-independence struggle. Records say that when a man named Gapbi, an agent of Uiryeong Police, sneaked into his house to arrest him with another freedom fighter named Kim Jong-cheol, the latter shot the agent to death. The two fled, but he was arrested with his fellow fighters including Song Du-hwan and Jeong Dong-seok, on November 6, 1924. He was sentenced to 4 years in prison by the Daegu District Court. In 1990, the Korean government officially acknowledged his patriotic deeds by conferring him a Patriotic Medal, the Order of Merit for the National Foundation.

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