After the demise of the President's father Kim Hyong Jik, an indomitable revolutionary fighter, she said to him: "Jungson (grandson), you will have to take over the burden your father was carrying now. You must pick up the cause where he left off and win back the country, come what may. You may have no chance to take care of me or your mother, as is your filial duty, but you must give yourself heart and soul to the cause of Korea's independence."

Whenever the Japs came to the native home of the President in Mangyondae to find out his whereabouts during the anti-Japanese armed struggle led by him, she maintained her steadfast stand against them, never succumbing to their persistent demand.

Recalling her, the President in his reminiscences "With the Century" said:

The agents of the "surrender hunting team" hauled my grandmother around the mountains of West Jiandao for nearly a full year.

If her bath was not warm enough now and then, or if she found a trace of it having been used by the Japanese, she berated the agents for her ill treatment, demanding what they thought of the grandmother of General Kim. If they served her with Japanese or Chinese food, she demanded Korean food with great dignity.

Whenever she got the news that we had won a battle, she shouted in high spirits, "That's my grandson! Go ahead and destroy the Japanese to the last man in our land!" She never yielded to any coercive power or injustice.

Although she was a grandmother of the head of a state after the liberation of the country, she led a simple and diligent life till the last moments of her life.