[Photo] Photo of Kim Koo being treated for gunshot wound revealed to public for first time

Kim Koo (also known by his pen name Baekbeom), was a leader of the independence movement during the Japanese colonial occupation of Korea. He was the sixth and last president of the provisional government of Korea in China. A photograph of him after being treated for a gunshot wound inflicted by a spy 1938 is now available to the public. The photo was donated to the Busan Museum as part of a batch of documents and photographs related to the independent activist Seo Yeong-hae, a Korean-French historian who served as the provisional government’s ambassador to France and devoted himself to informing the world of Korea’s cause of independence. Kim was shot again in 1949 by an assassin sent by Lee Seung-man (who would later become the Republic of Korea’s first president), this time fatally. (provided by Busan Museum)