Actress Song Hye-kyo, professor donate 10,000 guidebooks for historic LA site

Actress Song Hye-kyo, professor donate 10,000 guidebooks for historic LA site

 

Actress Song Hye-kyo and Professor Seo Kyung-duk have again donated 10,000 Korean/English guidebooks to the Korean National Association in Los Angeles to help provide information about the historic site of the Korean independence movement against Japan. They made the first contribution in 2018.

 

The donation is part of the “Refill Project” that began last year to “refill” leaflets at historic Korean sites around the world.

 

“I believe it is more important to keep 'refilling' the books than provide new ones at another site,” Seo, an active promoter of Korea, wrote on his Facebook, Wednesday. “This is our second donation for the project this year. The first contribution was made to the site of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in Chongqing, China.”

 

Seo said the newest guidebooks shed light on how the Korean National Association was formed in 1909 and how it raised funds for Korea's independence movement. Korean Independence activists, including Ahn Chang-ho, established the political organization in San Francisco to fight Japan's occupation in Korea. Its central headquarters was moved to Los Angeles in 1938.

 

The guidebook is also available at www.historyofkorea.co.kr.

 

Song and Seo have been donating Korean guidebooks and other items to 22 historic sites worldwide for nine years.

 

Song has starred in dozens of hit works including “Descendants of the Sun” (2016).