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On Feb. 12, , Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a log cabin in Hardin (now LaRue) County, Kentucky.

The March 1st Movement was a peaceful proclamation by the Korean people for their freedom from the Japanese. Ryu Gwansun is one of the best known participants in this movement, and she became the symbol of of Korea"s fight for independence through peaceful protest. Gwansun was from Chungcheong, Seoul. In , Gwansun was a student at the University"s high school, where she witnessed the beginnings of the March First Movement.

Gwansun left Seoul after an order by the Japanese government closing all Korean schools because of independence protests. She returned to her home in Jiryeong-ri now Yongdu-ri and became involved in the protest movement. Along with her family, she began to arouse public feeling against the Japanese occupation. She also planned a demonstration for independence, which included people from some neighboring towns, Yeongi, Chungju, and Jincheon, which took place on the first lunar day of March in Awunae Marketplace, beginning at a.

About 2, demonstrators participated, shouting, "Long live Korean Independence! The Japanese police were dispatched at around p. Ryu served a brief detention at Cheonan Japanese Military Police Station, and then was tried and sentenced to seven years of imprisonment at Seodaemun Prison. During her sentence, Ryu Gwan-Sun continued to protest for the independence of of Korea, for which she received beatings and other forms of torture at the hands of Japanese officers.

She died in prison on September 28, , reportedly as the result of the torture. She was one of an estimated 7, Korean citizens who died as a result of these protests, of the approximately 45, who were arrested in the same period. The Japanese prison officials initially refused to release her body, but eventually released it, in a Saucony Vacuum Company oil crate, to Lulu Frey and Jeannette Walter, principals of Ewha Womans School after Frey and Walter threatened to publicize the cause of her death.

Her body was reported to have been cut into pieces, but in fact according to Walter, who dressed her body for funeral, this allegation was false. The March 1st Movement did not immediately grant freedom to of Korea, but the Japanese colonial government implemented more lenient policies.