User:Dckewon5131/김극일 (1890년)

Kim Geuk-il (born April 9, 1890) is a former police officer during the Japanese occupation.

Life
The original residence is Uiju-gun, North Pyongan Province. He graduated from Daesung Middle School in Pyongyang established by Ahn Chang-ho in 1909, and returned to his hometown to work as a teacher.

In February 1910, just before the signing of the Korea-Japan annexation treaty, he became a patrolman at Sinuiju Police Station in Pyeongbuk and entered the police community. With the annexation of Korea and Japan, the membership was changed due to the patrols belonging to the Joseon Governor-General. In 1914, he passed the Joseon version of the Immungwan Examination, and in 1916, he was promoted to a police officer.

He worked as a police officer at Sinuiju Police Station for three years from 1917, and at this time around the March 1st Movement, Sinuiju area was an area frequented by independence activists to raise funds for the independence movement. After he assassinated Jang Ji-heung of the Korean Independence Corps in 1920, Kim Geuk-il contributed a lot to the arrest and murder of independence activists by throwing the body into the icy water of the Yalu River.

When Hong Sung-ik, a former member of the Shin Min-hoe, was hospitalized with a serious illness, several more members of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea were lured and arrested, and Hong Sung-ik eventually died in prison at Sinuiju prison shortly after his arrest. Accordingly, the Independent Newspaper, an organ of the provisional government, once expressed that Kim Geuk-il is an extremely evil and cheesy person and must be punished.

In 1921, he was briefly appointed as a sergeant at the Pyeongbuk Police Station and Uiju Police Station, and soon was promoted to the Senior Division and Security Division of the Gyeongnam Police Department as the head of the Gyeongnam Police Department. After that, he served as the security department of the Busan Police Station, the Gyeongnam Police Department, and the Gangwon Police Department until 1927.

In 1927, after 16 years of police service, he was appointed as the county governor of Gimhwa-gun, Gangwon-do, and changed to a bureaucrat. He served as a county governor in Yangyang-gun in 1928 and as a county governor in Inje-gun in 1930, and was abdicated in the sixth place in 1931.

In 1912, he received the Korean Merger Memorial Medal as a police officer, and in 1930, when he was the governor of Inje, he received the Hun 6th Certificate of Merger.

In the book "Anti-People's Crime Award," published after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule, it is said to be the incarnation of evil that "killed numerous patriots during the March 1st Movement." The Anti-National Act came into force and was arrested by the Anti-People's Special Committee in 1949 as the "senior of the Japanese police", but was not punished for failing to engage in the activities of the Anti-People's Special Committee.

After death
Among the 708 pro-Japanese groups released in 2002, it was selected in the category of contempt and patriot murder. Among the list of prospective pro-Japanese dictionaries released by the Institute for National Affairs in 2008, it is in the bureaucracy and police sectors. In 2007, the Korean Committee on the Truth of Pro-General National Act was also included in the list of 195 pro-general national acts.

Reference

 * Jang Ji-heung: Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs of Korea
 * Hong Seong-ik: Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs of Korea
 * Hong Seong-ik: Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs of Korea