1. Chung Eun-yong was a South Korean policeman and activist.
19 Facts About Chung Eun-yong
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Chung Eun-yong, who returned to his pre-war job as a police officer in Daejeon in the mid-1950s, learned that the United States was accepting claims for damages related to the Korean War in 1960.
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Chung Eun-yong joined with several survivors of the No Gun Ri Massacre, but the group missed the application deadline.
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Chung Eun-yong quietly continued to gather evidence at archives in Seoul and Daejeon for the next three decades during South Korea's authoritarian military rule.
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Chung Eun-yong partnered to operate a small bottle manufacturing plant in Daejeon.
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Chung Eun-yong concluded that South Korea's transition to democracy had finally given him the opportunity to speak out on the No Gun Ri Massacre for the first time since the 1960s.
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Chung Eun-yong began a series of petitions to the American government in the early 1990s.
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Chung Eun-yong demanded a full investigation, an apology and compensation for survivors and victim's families.
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Chung Eun-yong's petitions were ignored or dismissed until a 1999 investigation by Associated Press uncovered evidence which corroborated the accusations of Chung and other survivors.
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In 1999, Chung Eun-yong joined with American veterans of No Gun Ri at a reconciliation service held at a church in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Chung Eun-yong was born in Chu Gok Ri, Korea, in 1923.
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Chung Eun-yong wanted to be an architect, but only had the money to attend railroad school.
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Chung Eun-yong became a telegraph operator for the Japanese during the Japanese occupation of Korea, but left the job following a fistfight with a Japanese co-worker.
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Chung Eun-yong joined the Korean National Police in 1944 to avoid being drafted into the Japanese Army during World War II.
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Shortly after joining the police, Chung Eun-yong married his wife, Park Sun-yong, in an arranged marriage, which had been set up by a fortune teller.
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Chung Eun-yong quit the police in 1949, citing corruption, and enrolled at law school in Seoul.
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Chung Eun-yong, who had been in declining health, died on August 1,2014, at his home in Daejeon, South Korea, at the age of 91.
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Chung Eun-yong was survived by his wife of 69 years, Park Sun-yong, and a son born after the Korean War, Chung Koo-do.
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Chung Eun-yong Koo-do is the chairman of the No Gun Ri International Peace Foundation, which operates the No Gun Ri Peace Park.