An Mi-saeng
An Mi-saeng (1914? 1919? – 2008) was a Korean independence activist and an American painter. From 1938 to 1939, she worked for one year as a staff member at the British Embassy in Chongqing. After 1939 she was active in the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, and in 1940 she married Kim
Born~Died 1914 ~ 2004Last edited Oct 15, 2026, 2:51 PM
Details
- Born ~ Died
- 1914 ~ 2004
- Term
- 1 February 1946 – 15 August 1948
- Chairman
- Syngman Rhee, President of the Emergency National Assembly
- Vice Chairman
- Kim Gu, Vice President of the Emergency National Assembly
- Minister
- An Jae-hong, Director of Civil Affairs, US Army Military Government in Korea
- Commander
- John R. Hodge, Commanding General, US Army Military Government in Korea
- Chief of staff
- Sunwoo Jin, Secretary-General, Vice President's Office of the Emergency National Assembly
- Date of birth
- 13 July 1914 (1914-07-13)
- Place of birth
- Republic of China, Hebei, Beiping
- Residence
- United States, New York, Long Island; South Korea, Seoul (former)
- Date of death
- 24 November 2008 (2008-11-24) (aged 94)
- Place of death
- Northport, Long Island, New York, United States
- Nationality
- South Korean
- Education
- Law Department, National Tsinghua University of the Republic of China
- Career
- Adjunct professor, Law Department, Southwest Associated University; Standing committee member, Korean Independence Party
- Party
- Independent
- Parents
- An Jeong-geun (father), Yi Jeong-seo (mother)
- Siblings
- An Won-saeng (older brother), An Jin-saeng (younger brother)
- Spouse
- Kim In
- Children
- Kim Hyo-ja (daughter), Thomas An (son)
- Relatives
- An Gong-geun (uncle), Kim Shin (brother-in-law)
- Religion
- Catholicism (baptismal name: Susanna)
Contents
An Mi-saeng (1914? 1919? – 2008) was a Korean independence activist and an American painter. From 1938 to 1939, she worked for one year as a staff member at the British Embassy in Chongqing. After 1939 she was active in the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, and in 1940 she married Kim In (金仁), the eldest son of Kim Gu (金九).
She was the eldest daughter of An Jeong-geun and the niece of An Jung-geun and An Gong-geun. She served as secretary to Kim Gu, Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
Life
Early life
She was born in 1914 in Beijing, Hebei, Republic of China, as the eldest daughter of An Jeong-geun. She spent a brief period of infancy in Khabarovsk, Primorsky Krai, Russian Empire, and afterwards grew up in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Republic of China. She then moved around various parts of China with her family, studied abroad, and after completing her overseas studies entered Tsinghua University on the Chinese mainland under the Nationalist government.
Activities in China
At Tsinghua University she took part in the drama club and made a special appearance as a nun in the play ''Thunderstorm'' (雷雨). After graduating from university, she briefly served as an adjunct professor at Kunming Southwest Associated University, and later left that post and worked at the British Embassy in Chongqing, Sichuan, in the Nationalist government's mainland wartime capital, where she met and married Kim In, the son of Kim Gu. She then worked in the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea and the Korean Women's Patriotic Association in Chongqing. On 29 March 1945, after her husband Kim In died, An Mi-saeng served as a secretary to Kim Gu, and on 3 November 1945 she returned to Korea with Kim Gu, , and others as part of the first group of the Provisional Government to return home.
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