| Honorific-Prefix: | Seonsaeng[1] |
| Kim Hyong Jik | |
| Native Name Lang: | ko |
| Birth Date: | 1894 7, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Mangyongdae, Joseon |
| Death Place: | Jilin Province, Republic of China |
| Parents: | Kim Bo-hyon Lee Bo-ik |
| Spouse: | Kang Pan-sok |
| Children: | Kim Il Sung Kim Chol-ju Kim Yong-ju |
| Relatives: | Kim family |
| Context: | north |
| Hangul: | 김형직 |
| Hanja: | 金亨稷 |
| Rr: | Gim Hyeong-jik |
| Mr: | Kim Hyŏng-jik |
Kim Hyong Jik (; 10 July 1894 – 5 June 1926) was a Korean independence activist during Japanese rule. He was the father of the North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, the paternal grandfather of Kim Jong Il, and a great-grandfather of the current leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un.
Little is known about Kim. Born on 10 July 1894,[2] in the small village of Mangyongdae, situated atop a peak called Mangyungbong (만경봉(萬景峰),"All-Seeing Peak") just 12 kilometers downstream on the Taedong River from Pyongyang, Kim was the son of Kim Bo-hyon (金輔鉉, 1871–1955).[3] [4] Kim attended Sungshil School (평양숭실학교), which was run by American missionaries, and became a teacher at the Sunhwa school (순화학교) in Mangyongdae in 1913 and the Christian Myongsin school (명신학교) in Ponghwa-ri, Kangdong County in 1916 and later worked as a herbal pharmacist. According to the North Korean official sources, he died as a result of numerous medical problems, including third-degree frostbite.
Kim and his wife attended Christian churches, and Kim even served as a part-time Protestant missionary.[5] It was reported that his son, Kim Il Sung, attended church services during his teenage years before becoming an atheist later in life.[6]
Kim Il Sung often spoke of his father's idea of chiwŏn (지원(志遠), righteous aspirations).
Kim Jong Il's official government biography states that his grandfather was "the leader of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement and was a pioneer in shifting the direction from the nationalist movement to the communist movement in Korea".[7] Kim Hyong Jik is claimed by North Korea to have convened an important meeting of independence activists in November, 1921 memorialized at the Sansong Revolutionary Site.