ABSTRACT
Min Y ng-hwan, returned from his fruitless appeals to the West, wrote a passionate last testament and killed himself, and several others followed, while in London the closing of the Korean Legation had been accompanied by the suicide of the chargé Yi Han-ng. The King sent a youthful former member of the Independence Club, Yi S ng-man, to make another appeal to the American president. It had no effect, but Yi would go on to organize continuing protest from Hawaii and eventually return as 'Syngman Rhee', the South Korean leader of the 1950s.
