Korea will honor 206 independence activists, including a laborer in Japan who tried to bomb the imperial palace in 1940, for Memorial Day for Patriotic…. The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs said on the 15th that it will confer independence merit awards on 206 people, including the late Kim Seok-young, a Korean laborer in Japan who attempted to bomb the Japanese imperial palace during the colonial period, to mark the 87th.