Research boosts South Korean-Chinese links in WWII resistance against Japan

A Chinese historian has presented fresh research on China-based Korean independence leader Sin Kyu-sik at a symposium in Seoul co-hosted by Gwangbokhoe, the official association for those who fought against Japan’s occupation. The academic exchange, which was backed by South Korea’s Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, underscored how a shared legacy of anti-Japanese resistance continues to forge ties between intellectuals from the two countries. Sin, who was born in 1880, was one of…