User:Dckewon5131/김태동 (1918년)

Kim Tae-dong (March 8, 1918 ~ February 8, 1982 Goesan, Chungcheongbuk-do ) was a South Korean official during the Japanese colonial period.

While attending Meiji University, he passed the bar examination department of the High Civil Service Examination and worked as an official of the Government-General of Korea. He served as Vice Minister of Economic Planning, Minister of Post and Telecommunications and Health and Social Affairs in the Third Republic, and then as a director of the FKI and president of the Korea Herald. In 1982, he visited Japan and died in a fire accident at his hotel.

Among the 708 pro-Japanese groups announced in 2002, it was selected as the official section of the Japanese Government-General of Korea. It is also included in the bureaucracy section of the National Institute of Humanities' list of prospective candidates for the pro-Japanese biographical dictionary released in 2008.

educational background

 * 1940: Graduated from the Law Department of Meiji University in Japan
 * 1958: Completion of the World Bank (IBRD) Economic Research Institute
 * 1979: Honorary Doctor of Economics, Chung-Ang University

profile

 * 1939: Passed the Administration Department of the Higher Civil Service Examination
 * Governor of Muju-gun and Gochang-gun, Jeollabuk-do
 * an officer in the General Affairs Department of the Government-General of Korea
 * 1950: Director-General of the State Affairs Bureau of the Representative Office in Japan
 * 1950: Secretary-General of the Korea-Japan Talks
 * 1956: Director-General of the Ministry of Reconstruction and Coordination
 * 1962: Assistant Secretary of Defense
 * 1964: Assistant Secretary of State for Transport
 * 1966: Undersecretary of the Economic Planning Board
 * 1968: Minister of Posts and Telecommunications
 * 1969: Minister of Health and Social Affairs
 * 1971: Chairman of the Family Planning Institute
 * 1971: President of Aluminum Korea
 * 1973: Chairman of the Korea-U.S. Economic Council
 * 1973: President of the Daily Economic Daily
 * 1974: Director of the Federation of Korean Industries
 * 1976: Director of the Korean Branch of the International Development Organization
 * 1978: Director of the Korea Newspaper Association
 * 1980: President of Korea Herald

Reference

 * Kim Tae-dong - Korea Institute of Public Administration