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Kim Yun-bok (February 15, 1870 – September 18, 1952) was a South Korean police officer. During the Japanese colonial period, he served as a retainer in the Incheon area and served as a member of the Central Council of the Governor-General of Joseon.

Life
His hometown is Incheon and he was fluent in Japanese. In 1894, at the age of 25, he was appointed as an interpreter of the Army Command when the Japanese army advanced to Joseon due to the Donghak Peasant Movement. Later, when the demand for interpretation became necessary again due to the Russo-Japanese War, he became an interpreter of the Japanese military's Incheon Port Park Command, and received a prize for his work in reconnaissance activities.

During the Russo-Japanese War, he was appointed as the chief of the Incheon Port Police Station and entered the police community. In 1908, when the Korean Empire's police authority was actually in Japan's hands, he became a police officer at the Incheon Police Station. After that, he went through the police department of Yangju Police Station in Gyeonggi-do, the police department of Tonggambu, and the police department of Yeongdeungpo Police Station in Gyeongseongbu. When he served at Yangju Police Station for about a year from 1909, he made a lot of contributions to eradicating the righteous army movement, which was active in this area. After serving as the provincial police department of the Governor-General of Joseon for three years from 1919, he was promoted to the city of Dogyeong and retired from the police.

After retirement, he served as an Incheon deputy councilor from 1923 and became a Gyeonggi-do councilor in 1927, and was active as a rich man and a maintenance in the Incheon area. He held several positions, including vice chairman of the Incheon Charity Association, vice chairman of the Incheon Fisheries Association, and promoter and chairman of the Incheon Sports Association. He served as a member of the Gyeonggi Provincial Council in the 1930s and was re-elected as a member of the Incheon Deputy Council in 1939. In 1938, he participated in the establishment of the Incheon Commercial Class, the predecessor of Dongsan High School.

At the end of the Japanese colonial period, he took the lead in supporting the war. Starting with serving as vice chairman of the National Defense Council, an official organization of militarism in the 1930s, he served as a commissioned guardian of the Gyeongseong Probation Office, which was established to forcibly convert anti-Japanese activists who were in the way of war. Regarding the implementation of the volunteer military system, he publicly expressed his welcome, saying, "It is a good opportunity to fully carry out the principles of citizenship and to protect the country," and insisted on the implementation of the conscription system. In 1941, he was the promoter of the Joseon Imjeonbo National Foundation in Gyeonggi-do, and in 1944, just before liberation, he was appointed as a member of the Central Council.

After Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule, he returned to the police community and served as the head of In 1948, the Anti-National Acts Punishment Act was enacted, and when the anti-citizens began to be arrested by the Anti-Citizens' Special Committee from 1949, Kim Yoon-bok turned himself in. However, the dissolution of the Anti-Communist Special Committee did not result in punishment.

In 1912, he was awarded the Korea Merger Memorial Medal as a lieutenant and the Daisho Daerye Memorial Medal in 1915. In 1935, the 25th anniversary of the annexation of Korea and Japan, he received a commendation to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the municipal government.

After death
Among the 708 pro-Japanese groups released in 2002, it was included in the competition category. Among the list of prospective candidates to be included in the pro-Japanese life dictionary released by the Institute for National Affairs in 2008, it is in the center and police sectors. In 2007, the Korean Committee on Pro-Japanese Anti-ethnic Acts was also selected as a list of 195 pro-Japanese anti-ethnic acts.

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 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office
 * Dongsan High School