High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Choe Nam-seon (April 26, 1890- October 10, 1957) was a Korean historian and independence activist. He was born into a jungin (middle class) family in Seoul, Korea, under the late Joseon Dynasty, and educated in Seoul in the classical Chinese manner. He was sent to Japan on a government scholarship in 1904, where he enrolled at the First Tokyo Middle School (now Hibiya High School); however, he was expelled from the school in 1905 for a protest he organised among the Korean students there over the signing of the Eulsa Treaty. After his expulsion, he returned to Korea, but went to Tokyo again in 1906 to study at Waseda University. While in Japan, he was converted to the Japanese style of modernization, and sought to pattern Korea`s modernization after the Japanese approach. He participated in the Patriotic Enlightenment Movement, publishing the first successful Korean modern magazine, Sonyeon (Youth), and pioneered new styles of Korean poetry.