Editing Kim Dae-jung (section)

==Early life==
[[File:金大中.jpg|thumb|Kim Dae-jung in 1943]]
Kim Dae-Jung was born on 6 January 1924,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.donga.com/3/all/20090819/8768809/1 |work=[[The Dong-A Ilbo]] |title=DJ 생일은 1924년 1월 6일 |date=19 August 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208121510/http://news.donga.com/3/all/20090819/8768809/1 |archive-date=8 December 2015 }}</ref> but he later edited his birth date to 3 December 1925, to avoid [[conscription]] under [[Korea under Japanese rule|Japanese colonial rule]]. Kim was the second of seven children. His father, Kim Un-sik, was a farmer.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.inews24.com/view/436226 |work=inews24 |script-title=ko:[김前대통령 서거]민주화의 거목 김대중, 그 파란만장했던 삶 |date=19 August 2009}}</ref> Kim was a 12th generation descendant of Kim Ik-soo (김익수;金益壽) who served as Second Minister of the Board of War (병조참판;兵曹參判) and the civil minister (문신;文臣) who was involved in the construction of Gwansanggam during [[Joseon]] period. Ik-soo is the grandson of Kim Young-jeong (김영정;金永貞) of [[Gimhae Kim clan]], this makes him a distant relative of [[Kim Jong-pil]]. Kim was born on the island of [[Hauido]], [[Sinan County, South Jeolla|Sinan County]], [[Zenranan-dō]], [[Korea under Japanese rule|Korea, Empire of Japan]] (now [[South Jeolla Province]], South Korea). Kim's family had moved to the nearby port city of [[Mokpo]] so that he could finish high school. He had to change his name to Toyota Taichū (豊田大中) because of the passing of the [[sōshi-kaimei]] ordinance.{{Citation needed|date=August 2020}}

Kim graduated from Mokpo Commercial Middle School in 1944, and worked as a clerk at a Japanese-managed shipping company. In 1945, Kim married his first wife Cha Yong-ae, going on to have two sons. After the Japanese defeat in World War II and the liberation of Korea, he was elected as the chairman of the company's management committee. In 1946, as newly liberated Korea debated how to govern themselves for the first time in 40 years, he joined a nationalist organization with both pro-Communist and anti-Communist members but left after disagreements with the pro-communists.<ref name="NYT profile"/> However, this left him open to [[red-baiting]] from his political opponents in his future political career. In 1947, he bought a ship and started his own shipping company<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2021/03/113_79027.html |title=Jeolla President: unlikely election of Kim Dae-jung|date=2 January 2011 |work=[[The Korea Times]] |access-date=4 November 2021}}</ref> and in 1948, Kim became the publisher of a Mokpo daily newspaper. As the [[Korean War]] started in June 1950, Kim was on a business trip in Seoul. As he returned to Mokpo on foot, he was captured by North Korean communists and was sentenced to be shot, though he managed to escape.<ref name="Britannica"/>