Yi Dong-nyeong

Yi Dongnyeong 이동녕 李東寧
4th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea
In office 1926
Preceded by	Yi Sang-ryong
Succeeded by	Hong Jin
7th, 8th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea
In office 1927–1933
Preceded by	Kim Gu
Succeeded by	Yang Gi-tak
10th, 11th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea
In office 1935–1940
Preceded by	Yang Gi-tak
Succeeded by	Kim Gu
Personal details
Born	February 17, 1869 Cheonan, Chungcheong-do, Joseon
Died	March 13, 1940 (aged 71) Sichuan Province, China
Nationality	Korean

Korean name
Hangul	이동녕
Hanja	李東寧
Revised Romanization	I Dongnyeong
McCune–Reischauer	Yi Tongnyŏng

Yi Dongnyeong (also spelled Yi Dong-nyung) was a Korean independence activist. He served as the fourth (1926), seventh (1927–1930), eighth (1930–1933), tenth (1935–1939), and eleventh (1939–1940) President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in exile in Shanghai, China.

Yi Dongnyeong, along with Yi Si-yeong,Yi Hoe-young and Yi Sang-ryong, started the Military School of the New Rising (Sinheung Mugwan Hakkyo 신흥무관학교) or Shinheung Military Academy in 1911.^[1]

Notes

Tomb of Yi Dong-nyung in Qijiang County, Chongqing

1. Carter J. Eckert, Ki-baik Lee, Young Ick Lew, Michael Robinson, and Edward W. Wagner, Korea Old and New: A History (Seoul: Ilchokak / Korea Institute, Harvard University, 1990), 274.