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Kim Je-ha (born 26 September 1873) was a member of the North Pyongan Province and served as a member of the Central Committee of the Japanese Government-General of Joseon during the Japanese occupation.

Life
He comes from a powerful aristocratic family in Jeongju-gun, Pyeongbuk. At the age of his early 20s, he was a person who built Confucian knowledge by teaching at a local Confucian school in nearby Gwaksan-gun and was a considerable wealthy person.

Starting with Kwak San-gun's position as the head of the myeon in 1907, he served as a member of the founding committee of the Jeongju Local Finance Association and a member of the academic affairs committee of Gwaksan Public Common School. In this process, he was in charge of military disasters, which existed in Gwaksan-gun and Jeongju-gun in the 1910s, became a member of the Pyeonganbuk-gun branch of the Meiji Shrine Bongchanhoe in 1916, and a temporary member of the Pyeonganbuk Local Land Investigation Committee in 1917.

Many people from the March 1st Movement in 1919 were involved in the March 1st Independence Movement, and in September of the same year, Governor-General of Joseon, Makoto Saito, participated as a representative of Pyeonganbuk-do at a national lecture hosted by the Joseon Governor-General. At that time, it was reported in the Independent Newspaper, an organ of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. According to the newspaper, Kim Je-ha was reported to be "a man who tormented and killed innocent people while touring the jurisdiction for a single attack on the independence movement."

In 1920, the Daedong Sammunhoe, a pro-Japanese organization affiliated with Confucianism and sponsored by the Governor-General of Joseon, appointed Kim Je-ha to the position of a local Confucian warrior in Jeongju-gun. In the same year, he became the head of the Jeongju Financial Union and a member of the Provincial Council, and two years later, he was appointed to the Central Council in 1922, and entered the central political circle. At this time, he served as a member of the Central Council for about three years, and served as a member of the Council again for two years from 1929. In 1928, he was awarded the Showa Memorial Medal by the Japanese government.

In 1940, there is a record of economic activities such as obtaining a new rice paddy due to reclamation of public water, but the year of death is not known.

It was included in both the list of 708 pro-Japanese groups announced in 2002 and the list of prospective people in the pro-Japanese dictionary released in 2008, and also in the list of 195 pro-Japanese activities announced by the Korean Committee on Pro-Japanese Act in 2007.

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 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office
 * Daedongsamunhwe