Wu, Prince of Korea

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Prince Wu of Korea (1912-1945), was the 4th head of Unhyeon Palace and a member of the Imperial family of Korea. He was born the second son of Prince Gang, the fifth son of Emperor Gojong. At the age of five, he was adopted to be the heir of deceased Prince Jun, the 3rd head of Unhyeon Palace and the only son of the elder brother of Emperor Gojong, Prince Hui. He was taken to Japan shortly afterwards in pretence of educational purposes. Prince Wu was forced to serve in the Japanese Army stationed in China. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1930s, he was promoted to Major by 1943 and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1944. While in China, he is reputed to have supported the guerilla resistance movement by exiled Korean and Chinese people. He also supposedly fathered a child with Yu Jung-soon in 1943, the daughter of General Yu Dong-ryul, a minister in Korean Provisional Government in exile.