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Kang Pil-seong (October 8, 1885 – December 21, 1939) served as a high-ranking official during the Japanese occupation and served as a member of the Central Committee of the Japanese Government-General of Joseon.

Life
He was from Deokwon-gun, South Hamgyong Province. After graduating from Wonsan Wonheung Middle School, he studied on his own through lectures, graduated from the law department in 1909 as a suburban student at Waseda University in Japan, and graduated again from the political economy department in 1921.

He began his official career as a Korean Empire official in Wonsan. Since then, he has worked as a maintenance in the Hamnam area, centering on Wonsan, and became a temporary employee of Gyeongseong Agricultural and Industrial Bank of Korea's origin branch in Gyeongseong-gun, Hamgyeongbuk-do in 1907, and became an administrator of the Financial Supervisory Service in 1908.

When the local control was reorganized with the signing of the Korea-Japan annexation treaty in 1910, it became a library in Hamgyeongnam-do, and after being promoted to the newly established head of Pungsan-gun in 1914, he served as head of Jeongpyeong-gun and Anbyeon-gun.

He retired in 1924 and served as the head of the Deokwon Financial Union, the principal of the private Deokseong School, and the provincial councilor of Hamgyeongnam-do in Hyang-ri, and was appointed as the central councilor in 1930.

In 1932, he returned to the government post as a participatory officer and head of the industrial department in Jeollanam-do, and in February 1937, he was promoted and appointed to the governor of Hwanghae-do, the second-highest official.

In 1935, it was included as one of 353 meritorious persons in the Joseon Meritorious Self-Confession, compiled by the Governor-General. According to this, Kang Pil-sung, who served as the head of the Jeonnam Industrial Department, encouraged various farming activities by encouraging the self-reliance of the governor, Kazushige Ugaki, and the rural promotion movement.

He has achieved achievements in the cooperative movement of each rural village and the cotton cultivation movement to attract spinning companies.

In Hwanghae-do, it is said that it has contributed to the systematic breeding of cattle using forest afforestation and system. He received a certificate of honor from the Japanese government.

It was included in the list of 708 pro-Japanese groups selected by the National Assembly to establish national spirit in 2002, and in the central and bureaucratic sectors of the list of prospective Japanese life dictionaries compiled by the Institute for National Affairs in 2008. It is also included in the list of 195 pro-Japanese anti-ethnic acts announced by the Korean Committee on the Truth and Reconciliation of Pro-Japanese Anti-ethnic Acts in 2007.

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 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office

Reference

 * Kang Pil-seong - Korea Research Institute
 * Kang Pil-seong - National History Compilation Committee
 * Kang Pil-seong - National History Compilation Committee