Pak Hon-yong

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Chosŏn'gŭl:	박헌영

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Pak Hon-yong (1900-1955) was one of the main leaders of the Korean communist movement.

1900 - born to a yangban family of the Yeonghae Park lineage in Sinyang-myeon, Yesan County, Chungcheongnam-do.
1919 - Graduated from Kyŏngsŏng Ordinary High School, now Kyunggi High School.<ref>영해박씨 박헌영. Bakssi Jokbo website. Retrieved on 2006-04-11.</ref>
1921 - Joined the Shanghai branch of the Korean Communist Party, Irkutsk faction. Secretary of the Korean Communist Youth League.
January 1922 - Participated in the Comintern Far East People's Representative Council in Moscow.
April 1922 - Arrested in Korea as a Communist Party organizer.
1924 - Released from prison. Active as a reporter for the newspapers Dong-a Ilbo and Chosun Ilbo.
April 18, 1925 - Participated in the founding of the Korean Communist Party. From this point until the end of World War II his activities were underground.
Late August 1945 - Re-established the Korean Communist Party which had been officially disbanded in 1928. Becme its secretary.
January 5, 1946 - As a representative of the Korean Communist Party, he announced at a foreign and domestic press conference that, supporting the decision of the Moscow conference of great powers (UK, US, Soiet Union), Korea was now in the process of a "democratic revolution".
December 1946 - Organized the South Korean Workers' Party, and became the first secretary.
September 1948 - While keeping his role as secretry of the South Korean Workers' Party, he became Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of North Korea.
April 1950 - Became secretary of the Korean Workers' Party as the North and South parties united.
August 3, 1953 - Arrested in a purge of the South Korean Workers' Party faction by Kim Il-sung.
December 15, 1955 - Sentenced to death (probably executed soon afterwards).