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Kim Yong-kwan (21 March 1897 – 1967) was an engineer and national activist who worked in Japanese colonial era. The pen name ㅈㅁs Jangbaeksan.

Born in Seoul, he graduated from Gyeongseong High School of Technology (Gyeongseong High School) in 1918 as the first graduate and studied abroad in Japan. After returning to Korea, he worked at the Central Industrial Laboratory.

On October 1, 1924, as part of the product promotion movement with alumni of Gyeongseong High School, he founded the Invention Society for the purpose of technical independence of Joseon and served as its leader.

After the invention society stopped working due to a lack of funds, it recruited national lawyer Lee In as a patent attorney in 1932 to revive the invention society to help self-made inventors of martial arts apply for patents and utility models, and published Science Chosun from 1933.

In order to make the invention promotion movement a national movement, social celebrities such as Yoon Chi-ho, Yeo Un-hyung, and Song Jin-woo were recruited and held a science day event on April 19, 1934. Since then, when the Science Day event developed into the launch of the Science Knowledge Promotion Association and the Science Popularization Movement in July 1934, he has participated in both the Science Popularization Movement and the Invention Promotion Movement and acted as a representative ethnic engineer.

As Gyeongseong Textile began to receive subsidies from the Governor-General, the Gyeongseong Textile family became pro-Japanese, and anti-je non-compromise forces sympathetic to Kim Yong-kwan's scientific popularization-invention promotion movement became the mainstream of the late product promotion movement.

After the appointment of Governor Minamijiro in 1937, the Japanese colonial rule turned to an active assimilation policy, and after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the social atmosphere became militaristic. During this period, the Science Knowledge Promotion Association was eroded by pro-Japanese groups, and the Invention Society was pushed out of competition with the Joseon branch of the Imperial Invention Association.

After being imprisoned in 1938, Kim Yong-kwan quit his work and returned to his hometown, Jaeryeong in Hwanghae-do, where he lived in retirement while serving as a middle school teacher. When Kim Yong-kwan, the most enthusiastic nationalist in the movement, left, the Science Popularization Movement and the Invention Promotion Movement became completely pro-Japanese, and on December 26, 1940, the Science Knowledge Promotion Association and the Invention Society were merged into the Science Promotion Association. Since then, Kim Yong-kwan has not been able to do much work.

After independence, he was involved in the establishment of the the Korean Society of ceramic General Association and the Korean Society of ceramic Association.