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Jeon sang ki

Korean activist and businessman (1886-1924)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 18, 2024
Entity authorityQ6180202 ↗
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Jeon Sang Ki (June 10, 1886 - April 1, 1924) was a Korean independence activist and entrepreneur.

He was the representative of a national newspaper 'Dae Han So Gang', and sponsored various activist groups.

He also served in the Korean Righteous Army as a lieutenant general.

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“Jeon sang ki” enters the record as korean activist and businessman (1886-1924). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jeon, sang and Korean can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1886, 1924—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1886-06-10. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jeon, sang and Korean.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 18, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6180202. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1886 and 1924.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jeon sang ki” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.