Aengmu was the working name of a famed
kisaeng of
Daegu
Daegu (; ), formerly spelled Taegu and officially Daegu Metropolitan City (), is a city in southeastern South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; the fourth-largest List of provincial-level ci ...
in the early 20th century.
The name literally means "
parrot
Parrots (Psittaciformes), also known as psittacines (), are birds with a strong curved beak, upright stance, and clawed feet. They are classified in four families that contain roughly 410 species in 101 genus (biology), genera, found mostly in ...
." She was a leading donor to the
National Debt Repayment Movement
The National Debt Repayment Movement () was a 1907 to 1908 fundraising campaign in the Korean Empire, done as part of the Korean independence movement. The movement and its records were designated part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme ...
,
a campaign that aimed to keep Korea out of Japanese control by reducing Korea's debt to Japan.
Donating 100
won to the cause in 1907, she explained that it was inappropriate for her to donate more than a man; but if a man donated more, she would also donate more, even unto death.
Her real name is not known; neither are her dates of birth and death.
Notes
* Daegu-Gyeongbuk Historical Research Society, p. 219.
See also
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Korean independence movements
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History of Korea
The Lower Paleolithic era on the Korean Peninsula and in Manchuria began roughly half a million years ago.
Christopher J. Norton, "The Current State of Korean Paleoanthropology", (2000), ''Journal of Human Evolution'', 38: 803–825.
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References
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Kisaeng
Korean philanthropists
People from Daegu
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