The Ponghwa Revolutionary Site is associated with immortal exploits of Kim Hyong Jik, an outstanding leader of the Korea’s anti-Japanese national liberation movement, President Kim Il Sung and Kang Pan Sok, an outstanding leader of the Korean women’s movement.
Kim Hyong Jik moved a revolutionary activities base into Ponghwa -ri which is more favourable in geography in the middle of March 1916. He took up a teaching at the Myongsin School at Ponghwa-ri and conducted energetic activities to develop the anti-Japanese national liberation movement as well as educating the young people in the idea of “Jiwon”(Aim High) until autumn of 1917.
Kim Hyong Jik formed the Korean National Association, the pivotal underground revolutionary organization to lead the anti-Japanese national liberation movement at Pyongyang while staying at Ponghwa-ri, positively increased its organizations with it as the centre and united the broad masses around it.
Kim Il Sung who came to Ponghwa-ri with his parents in Spring 1917 fostered ardent patriotic spirit and high ambition of the revolution.
That autumn he made speech with a paper written by his father to condemn crimes of the Japanese imperialists and appeal the people to the anti-Japanese struggle at the Myongsin School’s exhibition of the pupils’ works, thus moving the villagers deeply.
When his father Kim Hyong Jik was arrested by the Japanese police, he witnessed the strong image of his mother who resisted against them and kept in mind the hatred toward the enemy.
Mother Kang Pan Sok helped him actively with his revolutionary activities and cultivated the anti-Japanese patriotic spirit among the village women encouraging them to the struggle.
President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il gave field guidance to the Ponghwa Revolutionary Site associated with the immortal revolutionary exploits of Kim Hyong Jik on several occasions.
The bronze statue of Kim Hyong Jik was erected in front of the Myongsin School permeated with his immortal exploits and there are place of playing at soldiers, houses where Kim Hyong Jik lived, place of morning exercises, rock, pear tree, well, ash tree, spring and the Maekjon Ferry and so on at the Ponghwa Revolutionary Site.
There are also the Ponghwa Revolution Museum and the monument to revolutionary history,“Shine forever, the historic land that broke dawn of national independence.”
