Yi Dongnyeong (also spelled Yi Dong-nyung) was a Korean independence activist. He served as the fourth (1926), seventh (1927–1930), eighth (1930–1933), tenth (1935–1939), and eleventh (1939–1940) President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in exile in Shanghai, China. Yi Dongnyeong, along with Yi Si-yeong, Yi Hoe-young and Yi Sang-ryong, started the Military School of the New Rising (Sinheung Mugwan Hakkyo 신흥무관학교) or Shinheung Military Academy in 1911. He then took part in the establishment of an interim government, leading a provisional government overseas for half his life, and died of overwork in the discipline of Sacheon on March 13, 1940. Notes Korean independence activists Korean nationalists 1869 births 1940 deaths Yi clan of Yonan