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Kim Hyun-soo (1875 – ?) was a Japanese student during the Korean Empire and served as a member of the Central Committee of the Japanese Government-General of Korea during the Japanese occupation.

Life
He studied law at Hosei University. In 1909, he graduated from Hosei University's law department, worked as an apprentice at a court in Japan, learned practical work, and returned to Korea the following year.

The year Kim Hyun-soo returned home after studying in Japan was the year the Korea-Japan annexation treaty was signed, and Kim Hyun-soo was immediately appointed as a secretary of the Pyongyang District Court of the Joseon Governor-General. In 1921, he became a secretary of the Japanese Government-General of Korea, and was awarded the Korean Merger Memorial Medal by the Japanese government.

In 1914, he was appointed as the county governor of Bakcheon-gun, Pyeongannam-do, and served for about four years, and in 1921, he was appointed as the vice president and councilor of Chungchongwon. In 1915, while serving as a county governor, he received the Daisho Daerye Memorial Medal of the Japanese government, and in 1917, he served as a temporary member of the Pyeongbuk Regional Land Investigation Committee.

Kim Hyun-soo first became a vice-chancellor, filling the vacancy of Min Min-sik, who died in the attack of independence activist Yang Geun-hwan, but was reappointed to the council soon after the reorganization of the Central Committee.

Some analysts say that Kim Hyun-soo's participation in the Central Garden, one of the best seats for Koreans to climb in just over 10 years, starting his career as the sixth-ranked judge of the court, is an example of Kim Hyun-soo's cooperation with Japanese colonial rule.

It was included in both the list of 708 pro-Japanese groups announced in 2002 and the list of prospective pro-Japanese biographies released in 2008, and in 2007 by the Korean Committee for Pro-Japanese Anti-National Act.

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 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office