Park Kyung-won

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Park Kyung-won

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Post by Peter H » 28 Jan 2008, 07:12

Korea's first female civilian aviator?


http://www.shuqi.org/asiancinema/review ... llow.shtml
Park Kyung-won was one of those who decided to make the best of the occupation. She fled to Japan to be a pilot, and when her japanese rulers demanded that she showed up to support the "cause" she did so, albeit reluctantly. Many Koreans feel she betrayed her own country and traded her allegiance for a tank of gas and an air field.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Kyung-won
On 4 May 1933, Park was chosen to fly on a new route between Japan and Manchukuo, in a propaganda effort intended to encourage closer ties between the two countries. She flew to Seoul on 19 May to meet with government officials there. At 10:35 AM on of 7 August 1933, she took off from Tokyo's Haneda Airport on one such flight to Manchuria; she crashed 42 minutes later near Hakone, Kanagawa and died.

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