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Lyuh Woon-hyung

1886 - 1947

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Lyuh Woon-hyung or Yo Un-hyung (25 May 1886 – 19 July 1947) was a Korean politician who argued that Korean independence was essential to world peace, and a reunification activist who struggled for the independent reunification of Korea following its national division in 1945. Lyuh Woon-hyung, Syngman Rhee and Kim Koo were some of the prominent figures of the Provisional Government of Korea in exile. He is also known by his pen name Mongyang (몽양; 夢陽). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lyuh Woon-hyung has received more than 160,350 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Lyuh Woon-hyung is the 8,574th most popular politician (up from 8,786th in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from South Korea (down from 112th in 2019) and the 67th most popular South Korean Politician.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.84

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  • 2.18

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Over the past year Lyuh Woon-hyung has had the most page views in the with 57,943 views, followed by English (31,375), and Japanese (14,773). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (181.48%), Korean (112.56%), and French (82.25%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lyuh Woon-hyung ranks 8,574 out of 19,576. Before him are Manuel Oribe, Martine Aubry, David VII of Georgia, Iuliu Maniu, Mordechai Gur, and Sahra Wagenknecht. After him are Muhammad bin Nayef, Elihan Tore, Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuán, Hyder Ali, Ordulf, Duke of Saxony, and Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Lyuh Woon-hyung ranks 106. Before him are Hans von Obstfelder, Princess Patricia of Connaught, Helen Parkhurst, Muhamed Mehmedbašić, Ğabdulla Tuqay, and Gheorghe Tătărescu. After him are Mir Osman Ali Khan, Salvatore Maranzano, Tarsila do Amaral, Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, Armin T. Wegner, and Ferenc Münnich. Among people deceased in 1947, Lyuh Woon-hyung ranks 90. Before him are Sándor Garbai, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, Bronisław Huberman, August Eigruber, and Constantin Sănătescu. After him are Harukichi Hyakutake, Ivan Regen, Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt, August Schmidhuber, Emma Orczy, and Richard Heidrich.

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In South Korea

Among people born in South Korea, Lyuh Woon-hyung ranks 119 out of 1,128. Before him are Andrew Yeom Soo-jung (1943), Goh Kun (1938), IU (1993), Lee Young-ae (1971), Pak Song-chol (1913), and Choi Min-sik (1962). After him are Song Kang-ho (1967), Kim Hae-sook (1955), Sin Yun-bok (1758), Lee Dong-wook (1981), Myung-whun Chung (1953), and Chungjeong of Goryeo (1338).

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Among POLITICIANS In South Korea

Among politicians born in South Korea, Lyuh Woon-hyung ranks 67. Before him are Kim Kyu-sik (1881), Beopheung of Silla (500), Ye Wanyong (1858), Kim Seong-su (1891), Goh Kun (1938), and Pak Song-chol (1913). After him are Chungjeong of Goryeo (1338), Han Seung-soo (1936), Heo Gyun (1569), Jo Gwang-jo (1482), Yi San-hae (1539), and Lee Jae-myung (1964).

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