Bill Text: CA SCR27 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Yu Gwan-sun Day.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2025-04-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 40, Statutes of 2025. [SCR27 Detail]
Download: California-2025-SCR27-Chaptered.html
Senate Concurrent Resolution
No. 27
CHAPTER 40
Relative to Yu Gwan-sun Day.
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Filed with
Secretary of State
April 29, 2025.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SCR 27, Choi.
Yu Gwan-sun Day.
This measure would recognize March 1, 2025, as the 6th Anniversary of Yu Gwan-sun Day in the State of California and recognize the 106th Anniversary Commemoration of the March 1st Movement for Korean Independence.
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WHEREAS, The March 1st Movement was inspired by the “Fourteen Points” outlined by President Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference and was the first step taken by Koreans for independence; and
WHEREAS, The reading of the Korean Declaration of Independence, which was drafted by historian Choe Nam-seon, in Taehwagwan Restaurant in Seoul and the subsequent signing of the document signaled the beginning of the independence movement for Korea; and
WHEREAS, From March 1 to April 11, 1919, approximately 2,000,000 Koreans participated in more than 1,500 demonstrations, which are referred to today as the Korean independence movement; and
WHEREAS, Yu Gwan-sun is best known as an organizer in the March 1st Movement in the peaceful demonstration against the Imperial Japanese colonial rule of Korea; and
WHEREAS, The protests and the March 1st Movement sparked the creation of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, and while the campaign failed to achieve its goal of independence, March 1 is celebrated by both North and South Korea today as a national holiday; and
WHEREAS, The centennial commemoration of the March 1st Movement of Korean independence, which brought Californians together for this momentous event, was marked with movie presentations, celebrations, and historical seminars to educate the community on the historical importance of the movement; and
WHEREAS, California is home to the largest population of Korean Americans in the United States; and
WHEREAS, The contributions of the Korean American community in California have strengthened this great state and continue to promote the incredible diversity of California; and
WHEREAS, The Assembly recognized March 1, 2019, as Yu Gwan-sun Day in the State of California in honor of the centennial commemorative year of the March 1st Movement of Korean independence; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly thereof concurring, That the Legislature recognizes March 1, 2025, as the 6th Anniversary of Yu Gwan-sun Day in the State of California; and be it further
Resolved, That the Legislature recognizes the 106th Anniversary Commemoration of the March 1st Movement for Korean Independence; and be it further
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
