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Back to EpisodesSeo Jae-Pil, aka Philip Jaisohn, MD: The Room Where It Happened
Episode 506
Published 2 months, 4 weeks ago
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BBB:LHWS #058 Seo Jae-pil, aka Philip Jaisohn...
...was the first Korean to become a US citizen, but he never gave up on his lifelong dream to return Korea to its own independence. In 1919, he chaired a Philadelphia meeting that ended with a march through the rain to the room where it happened at Independence Hall and the reading of a new Declaration of Independence.