Korean Independence Fighter Identified from 1922 Photograph
I think Ambassador Harris should troll the Korean leftists by growing out his mustache to look like Choi Jin-dong:
You can read the whole story about how Choi Jin-dong was identified at this link. The picture was taken in Moscow during a communist conference and the guns both are wearing were actually gifts from Lenin.
Commies in Korea go way back. Always take these Korean ‘freedom’ fighters with a grain of salt. Most cared nothing about Korea and only were trying to advance communism.
Reference the car: 1) The top is down/off during a Moscow January? Odd. 2) Guessing photo was taken primarily for the car’s novelty value (look what we have). Probably very few cars in 1922 Korea. 3) The car is likely a Russo-Baltique http://www.russkije.lv/media/original/_/2950pX.jpg without those nice sport wheels depicted in the above link.
Choi’s belt is on backwards.
Even though it’s blurry … the writing on the building behind them looks like Chinese. I suppose it’s possible that it’s a Korean building of some sort in Moscow. Back then they would have written the name of the organization/business in Chinese, even if it was a Korean entity.