Editing March First Movement (section)

=== Yu Gwan-sun ===
{{Main article|Yu Gwan-sun}}
[[File:Ryu Gwan-sun.jpg|thumb|245x245px|A [[mug shot]] of Yu (1919)]]
Yu Gwan-sun, a 16-year-old participant in the protests, has since become a symbol of March First Movement, and is now remembered in South Korea as a martyr. On the first day of the protests, Yu, then a student at [[Ewha Haktang]], participated in the protest in Seoul. On March 5, she participated in another protest at [[Namdaemun]] in Seoul and was arrested. Missionaries from her school negotiated her release. She then returned to her hometown of Cheonan, albeit with a smuggled copy of the Declaration of Independence. From there, she went from village to village, spreading the news of the protests and encouraging people to organize their own. On April 1, 3,000 protestors gathered in Cheonan. The Japanese military police opened fire on the protestors and killed 19; among the dead were Yu's parents.<ref name="NYT Yu">{{Cite news |last=Kang |first=Inyoung |date=2018-03-29 |title=Overlooked No More: Yu Gwan-sun, a Korean Independence Activist Who Defied Japanese Rule |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/obituaries/overlooked-yu-gwan-sun.html |access-date=2024-04-30 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230824213126/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/obituaries/overlooked-yu-gwan-sun.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Yu was arrested and detained at Seodaemun Prison. She was reportedly unrepentant despite repeated beatings and torture. She eventually died of her injuries on September 28, 1920.<ref name="NYT Yu" />