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Gwak Beop-gyeong (October 26, 1877) was a Korean monk. Beopgyeong was a pen name, and its real name or buddhist name was unknown. The main building is a Hyeonpung.

Life
He is from Juksan-gun, Gyeonggi-do, which is currently Anseong-si, Gyeonggi-do. At the age of 12, he became a Buddhist monk in 1889 at Mangwolsa Temple in Dobongsan Mountain, Yangju-gun, Gyeonggi-do (now Dobong-gu, Seoul). He was very intelligent since he was young, and in 1903, he was given the title of Beopgyeong by Dae Gang-baek in Mungyeong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, and gave a lecture.

Later, he performed Zen and established a missionary in Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do, in 1912, and became a missionary, and his Buddhist script was recognized to the extent that the believers were crowded. In 1916, he became the governor of Wibongsa Temple in Daebonsan Mountain, Jeollabuk-do. He served for nine years until 1925, during which he was pro-Japanese.

When he visited Japan as a member of the Japanese Buddhist Inspection Team in 1917, he visited the tomb of Emperor Meiji and wrote a praise poem saying that Meiji's grace was heavy. Organized with the support of the Japanese Government-General of Korea, the inspection team visited the tombs of Emperor Meiji, Ise Shrine, and Hideyoshi Toyotomi, and all participants later showed pro-Japanese activities.

In 1919, he served as Sang Chi-won of the 30th Bonsan Union Office, the 10th Bonsan Provisional General Staff, and the director of the Central Teachers' Office. In 1924, when he served as the chief monk of the Wibongsa Temple for eight years, the setting "Maebul Incident" occurred. This case was a case in which Kwak Beop-kyung secretly sold the building and Buddha statue of Bocheonsa Temple in Okgu-gun, which was closed while under the Wibongsa Temple, and the Buddhist community was strongly opposed. When it was also revealed that he personally embezzled the temple property and built it, Kwak Beop-gyeong took the books of Wibongsa Temple and disappeared the following year.

Kwak Beop-kyung, who fled, established a Seonhakwon in Anguk-dong, downtown Gyeongseong-bu, and took charge of Wonju, and in 1926, he organized an organization called the Joseon Buddhist Innovation Association, advocating front-line harmony with Japanese who did not have a certain job. Gwak Beop-gyeong's argument was to establish a state of unity with the church by enshrineding Sakyamuni, Emperor Meiji, and King Gojong of the Korean Empire in the Buddhist temple. Eventually, he failed to go to Japan with a proposal written like this and submit it to politics, and Buddhist youths living in Japan even held a protest rally, calling him "Ghost monk," "Bad monk."

After not appearing for about 10 years, he reappeared in the Buddhist community in the 1930s when the Governor-General joined the psychological development movement centered on the religious community. After participating in a lecture on electrocardiogram development held in Gimje-gun, Jeollabuk-do in 1935, it no longer appears in the record.

After death
It was included in the Buddhist category among the list of prospective candidates for the pro-Japanese biographical dictionary released by the Institute for Ethnic Affairs in 2008. It is also included in the list of 195 pro-Japanese anti-national acts selected by the Korea Anti-Japanese Anti-National Activities Committee in 2007.

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