▲ Independence activists Shin Masila (left) and Kim Noddy. ⓒFounding Ideology Promotion Association
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In the documentary ‘Hundred Years’ War’, the Korean National Research Institute used a photo of Governor Kim to describe former President Syngman Rhee (1875-1960) and Governor Kim Nodie (Kim Hye-suk, Nodie Dora Kim, 1898-1972) as an ‘inappropriate relationship’ It was claimed to be a photo of activist Marcella Shin (1892-1965).
In a phone call with New Daily on the 7th, Professor Oh Young-seop of Yonsei University’s Syngman Rhee said, “The picture inserted into the YouTube video by the Institute for National Issues demeaning Kim No-di as if she was the former President Syng-man Rhee’s government was not Kim No-di, but Shin Masila.” “I made a video from this online photo that was erroneously known as Kim Noddy’s face photo.”
“Shin Masila, a member of the Gumi Committee in the 1920s”
Professor Oh said, “Perhaps a commemorative photo taken by the Gumi Commissioner of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea at the Portland Hotel in Washington on March 1, 1920, when Yoo Young-ik, a chair professor at Yonsei University’s Graduate School of International Studies, published a book called ‘The Life and Dreams of Syngman Rhee’ in 1996 (bottom of the text). )), misunderstood the woman as Kim No-di and recorded it.” “After that, the Yonsei University Academic Information Service (Researcher Syngman Lee) cited the description of this photo as it is, and whenever Kim No-di was mentioned, this photo became a source photo. appeared,” he said.
Professor Oh introduced, “Masila Shin, whose real name is Shin Ma-sook, was a first-time graduate (1914) of Ewha Hakdang University. did.
“I lived in Washington in the 1920s and served as a secretary and fundraising for the Gumi Committee of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea,” said Professor Oh, who pointed out Shin Masila’s activities.
Professor Oh said, “Nodi Kim is the daughter of a Korean immigrant (Kim Yun-jong) who left for a sugar cane farm in Hawaii, and graduated from Oberlin University in 1922. I only came and went for a while, but I didn’t work as a member of the Gumi Committee,” he said.
“Therefore, there was no Kim Node when we took the commemorative photo in 1920,” said Professor Oh, who added, “The woman who took charge of various affairs in the Gumi Committee was Shin Masila.”
Kim Noddy is Syngman Rhee’s ‘foster daughter’… Confirmation by adoption document
Earlier, the National Research Institute denounced former President Syngman Rhee as a ‘Playboy’ through the YouTube video ‘Hundred Years’ War, and edited the screen as if it were an affair with Governor Kim Nodi.
The National Research Institute released a composite photo as if the two were arrested by the US police at the time and took a ‘mug shot’, and in June 1920, Syngman Rhee and Nodi Kim were banned from crossing the state border for immoral sexual intercourse. Mann) was arrested and prosecuted for violating the law.
After it was revealed that former President Lee and Governor Kim were not having an affair, and that they had never been arrested or charged by the police, the Korea Communications Commission said regarding the citizen broadcasting RTV that broadcast ‘Hundred Years’ War’, “According to the Broadcast Deliberation Regulations, objectivity, fairness, He has violated the ban on defamation.”
According to the adoption document kept by Kim’s daughter Winifred Lee Namba, former President Lee and Governor Kim had a ‘female relationship’. On June 15, 1913, Kim Yun-jong, the father of Governor Kim, who wrote this document, said, “I gave my 13-year-old daughter-in-law to Dr. attested by the written word.”
The adoption document proving that Governor Kim was the ‘foster daughter’ of former President Lee will be unveiled at the premiere of the documentary ‘Syngman Rhee 30 Years in Hawaii’ held at 2 pm on the 7th at the Assembly Hall in Yeouido, Seoul.
Kim Hyo-sun, secretary-general of the Foundation for the Promotion of National Ideas, said, “In the meantime, the life and achievements of Syngman Rhee, the founding president, have not been well known, and there have been absurd misunderstandings and rumors, such as rumors of an affair with Kim No-di.” I want the historical facts to be conveyed as they are,” he said.
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▲ Commemorative photo taken by the Gumi Commissioner of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea on March 1, 1920 at the Portland Hotel in Washington. The woman in the center of the back row is Shin Masila. ⓒYonsei University Academic Information Service (Researcher Syngman Lee)
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