This book is the autobiography of Kim Gu (1876-1949), who was a politician and an activist who fought for Korean independence during the Japanese Occupation. It consists of two volumes. At 17, he applied for the highest-level national examination during the late Joseon Dynasty but failed. Later, he was introduced to Donghak, an academic movement in Korean Neo-Confucianism; he became the district leader of the Donghak Peasant Army at the age of 19, and they attacked Haeju Fortress. At the age of 21, he participated in a revolt to avenge the Empress’ death but was captured. He escaped from prison and went to Magoksa Temple in Gongju to become a monk. After the Eulsa Treaty of 1905, which put Korea’s foreign affairs under Japanese administration, he devoted himself to Korea’s independence movement and engaged in patriotic deeds carried out by An Jung-geun and An Myeong-geun. Immediately after the March First Independence Movement in 1919, he sought asylum in Shanghai. He became the first Police Bureau Director and the President of Internal Affairs for the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. In 1926, he was appointed Cabinet President. In 1939, he became the Premier of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. The following year, he organized the Korean Liberation Army and formed the Anti-Japanese Military Army. In 1941, he declared war against Japan. The first volume of this diary was written in 1929 when he was 53 years old. It reflects on his involvement in the Korean independence movement, which lasted for one year in the Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai. It is composed in the form of letters written to his two sons, Kim In and Kim Sin, in both Korean and Chinese characters. The first volume is organized in the following order: My Home and Childhood; My Thorny Young Age; Roving Journey, and; Sacrificing Myself for the People. The second volume was written in 1932 when he moved from Shanghai to Junggyeong after the two anti-Japanese movements by the Korean Patriotic Legion led by Kim Gu. The contents of this volume record the history of struggle for national independence under the titles “March First Independence Movement in Shanghai” and “Gijeok janggang mallipung (Miracle fierce wind from a distance from Yangtze River).” The writing titled “My Desire” describes well his national ideology for Korea’s complete independence. Baekbeom ilji (Diary of Kim Gu) has been published by his son Kim Sin under the sponsorship of the Korean History Institute for the first time on December 15, 1947. To date, 10 editions of this book have been published at home and abroad. This original copy, written by Kim Gu during his duty at the Provisional Government in Shanghai, is very valuable as historical data in studying the Provisional Government in Shanghai and the national independence movement.