Park Cha-jeong

Park Cha-jeong (Korean: 박차정; May 8, 1910 – May 27, 1944) was a Korean independence activist and the second wife of Kim Won-bong. Her assumed names were Yim Cheol-ae (임철애, 林哲愛) and Yim Cheol-san (임철산, 林哲山). She led the female students' pro-independence protest by the Korean Women's League.

Park was born in Busan. Her father committed suicide fighting Japan, and her family were independence activists. In 1929, she graduated from the J. B. Harper Memorial School, the first Australian missionary school founded in Korea. In 1930, she went to China and worked in Beijing to rebuild the Communist Party of Korea. She married Kim Won-bong in 1931. In 1939 she was injured in Jiangxi and died at Chongqing in 1944. She was buried in Miryang, where Kim Won-bong was born. In 1995, she was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit for National Foundation. Her statue is located in Busan.