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Recently, the news came from the Korean film circle that the Korean version of "Top Gun" will begin to be filmed, telling the magnificent life of Kwon Ki-wook.
It can be said that this movie is definitely a "good cake", which is definitely a great opportunity for Korean actresses, and if she can play Kwon Ki-woo, it will be a supreme glory.
Who is Kwon Ki-wook?
She is known to everyone in Korea.
● Kwon Ki-wook
At the age of 16, after watching the air show, she decided to become a pilot: to take the bomb on the plane and blow up Japan!
Later, she flew into the blue sky as she wished, actively participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and later became the "grandmother of the South Korean Air Force".
And this Korean still has an indissoluble relationship with China.
She was the first female flight graduate of the China Aviation School, she joined the Chinese army, participated in the Northern Expedition, actively participated in the Work of the Chinese War of Resistance, and made outstanding contributions to the friendship between China and South Korea.
In the winter of 1929, in Shanghai, a couple held the first air wedding in Chinese history, which attracted the envy of everyone.
The newlyweds are Liu Peiquan, commander of aviation, and Wang Suzhen, a female teacher at Nanjing Girls' High School.
And it was their marriage that flew the plane, human rights Jiyu.
News reports at the time were later made into documentaries
In that male-dominated era, the heroic posture of this foreign female pilot will always be remembered in the sky of that era.
How did Kwon Ki-wook come to China, and how did she become China's first female flight graduate?
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In 1901, Kwon Ki-wook was born into a wealthy family in Pyongyang, North Korea. Because his father did not do the right thing, he lost the family property accumulated by his ancestors and began to fall in the family road when Kwon Ki-wook was 4 years old.
However, the family still gave Kwon Ki-woo the opportunity to receive an education, and Kwon Ki-woo also lived up to expectations and achieved excellent results since childhood. She was hungry for knowledge, especially mathematics and science, which laid a solid foundation for her to become a pilot in the future.
In 1916, 15-year-old Kwon Ki-wook was in middle school.
At that time, the iron hooves of the Japanese army had entered Pyongyang, and the Korean Peninsula had completely fallen into a Japanese colony, full of hunger and death, and the people were not happy.
Quan Jiyu received a new-style education, had a strong sense of patriotism and independence, and was determined to fight for the restoration of the motherland for a lifetime.
For national independence, she began to actively campaign and joined a secret society.
In September 1917, after watching the American air show, Kwon Ki-yu secretly decided: "I want to learn the art of flying, take the bomb on the plane, and blow up Japan!" ”
In 1919, Kwon participated in the "Three Ones" movement against Japanese colonial rule, was arrested by the Japanese police, and was sentenced to 6 months in prison.
● The "Three·One" Movement
After her release, Quan Jiyu did not give up the struggle, she continued to organize her classmates to actively resist Japan and call on the people to wake up.
After the "March 1" movement was suppressed by Japan, the Korean people's anti-Japanese patriotic movement entered a low tide period, and for this reason, many patriots came to China to save the country.
Kwon Ki-wook is one of them.
In the late spring of 1921, Kwon Ki-wook entered the Hangzhou Hongdao Girls' High School to study hard, working hard to learn Chinese and English.
After graduating, Kwon Ki-wook came to shanghai to teach at the private Rencheng Primary School.
But Quan Jiyu always has a blue sky dream in his heart, looking forward to one day being able to fly to the blue sky and fight for the rejuvenation of the motherland.
Soon, she waited for her chance.
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In 1920, tang Jiyao, the "king of Yunnan", founded the Yunnan Aviation School in Kunming, and after Quan Jiyu learned of this news, he went to Kunming to study.
Liu Peiquan, the principal of the aviation school at the time, saw the weak girl in front of him and shook his head repeatedly: "How can the girl's family learn to fly?" ”
But at the insistence of Quan Jiyu, Liu Peiquan accepted this female student out of the box.
In this way, Quan Jiyu became a transfer student in the first phase of The Yunnan Aviation School and began to learn to fly.
● Kwon Ki-wook (right) with instructor
Many rich ladies and celebrities heard that a foreigner with unassuming appearance and glasses had become a female pilot, felt fashionable, and eagerly tried, but within a few days they were defeated.
Because flight training not only requires excellent physical fitness, but also training is too hard.
In Kwon Ki-yu's view, these sufferings are nothing at all. Every morning in the morning, you can see the figure of Kwon Ki-yu trying to practice flying.
Her perseverance and bravery are no less than those of men, and her soaring and heroic posture in the blue sky has become an example for the vast number of patriotic women.
But Quan Jiyu, who actively resisted Japan, has always been a thorn in the eye of Japan.
When it was learned that Kwon Jiyu was studying at the Yunnan Aviation School, the Japanese repeatedly tried to assassinate him.
The Japanese consulate even directly demanded that the aviation school hand over Quan Jiyu, but the school lied that there were no foreign female students, so that Quan Jiyu escaped the disaster.
● Kwon Ki-wook (middle) when studying at aviation school
In 1926, Quan Jiyu graduated from xuecheng and became the first female pilot graduate of the China Aviation School.
She knows that Korea's independence cannot be separated from China, and only when China wins the War of Resistance Against Japan can there be hope for Korean independence.
Therefore, she actively participated in the cause of China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and contributed her own strength to the War of Resistance Against Japan.
With a letter of appointment from the Korean Provisional Government, she went alone to Feng Yuxiang's unit in Beijing and joined the flying team.
She flew many times to participate in the battle, and was the only female pilot to participate in the Northern Expedition.
● Kwon Ki-wook's letter of appointment
It was also at that time that Kwon Ki-wook became acquainted with Li Shanyin, a staff officer of the Nationalist Army, who was also a Korean, and the common nationality and common beliefs made the two quickly come together.
● Kwon Ki-wook and her husband Lee Shan-yin
The couple fought side by side and fought together in many battles.
In 1936, Kwon Ki-wook and Lee Shan-yin were arrested for being framed by Japanese spies, and they were imprisoned for eight months before being released.
● Kwon Ki-wook and Lee Shan-yin, Lee Shan-yin's younger brother
After his release from prison, Kwon No longer worked as a pilot, but was ordered to enter the Military Staff School of the Nationalist Government in Nanjing as an instructor and to work as an intelligence gathering worker.
● The second from the right is Kwon Ki-yu
In 1944, on the eve of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Shanyin died of illness in Chongqing due to overwork.
Kwon Ki-wook endured his grief and continued to devote himself to his work. Whether it is a flight mission or teaching or intelligence work, she has performed well and worked hard.
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In 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally, the War of Resistance Against Japan was victorious, and South Korea was restored.
Kwon Ki-wook returned to his homeland, where he had been away for more than 20 years, to contribute to South Korea's post-war construction.
She served as a special commissioner of the National Defense Commission and was the only female commissioner.
She and her classmates formed the Korean Air Force, and is one of the founders of the Korean Modern Air Force, known as the "Grandmother of the Korean Air Force".
Her life credo: "Life must have goals, and we must constantly strive to achieve those goals." ”
So until the age of 71, Kwon Ki-wook was still working, presiding over the compilation of the Korean Almanac, which recorded the history of Korea.
● Elderly Quan Jiyu
Kwon Ki-wook said that China is her second motherland, so she serves as vice president of the China-Korea Cultural Association and has been committed to promoting cultural exchanges between China and South Korea.
In 1968, Kwon Ji-wook received the Grand Presidential Award. In 1977, South Korea awarded her the Independence Medal, the Founding Medal.
● Bronze statue of Kwon Ki-wook in Seoul, South Korea
In 1988, Kwon died in her home country at the age of 87.
Her story is still being celebrated by Koreans.
He dared to throw his head and spill his blood for the cause of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and spent his life pouring out blood for the construction of the motherland, and in his life, he composed a myth of not letting his eyebrows be raised. Text/Yu Ting