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Kim Hwa-joon (1890 – ?) was a government official during the Japanese colonial period and served as a member of the Central Council of the Japanese Government-General of Korea.

Life
He was born to a poor peasant family in Jeongju-gun, North Pyongan Province. The entire educational background is that he entered the forestry department of Suwon Agricultural School in his teens and completed it for one year.

In 1907, he entered the government office while serving as an official at the Agriculture, Commerce and Industry Department of the Korean Empire. Three years later, when the Korea-Japan annexation treaty was signed, the membership was changed to the Governor-General of Joseon, and he was appointed as secretary of Pyeongannam-do. Starting with his appointment as governor of Maengsan-gun in 1921, he served as governor-general for 17 years in Pyeongnam, including Yangdeok-gun, Seongcheon-gun, Pyeongwon-gun, Junghwa-gun, Anju-gun, Suncheon-gun, and Daedong-gun.

After the head of Daedong-gun, he was promoted to the head of the Participatory Hall and Industrial Department in Chungcheongbuk-do in 1938, and was appointed to the Central Principality Council in 1941 and served until liberation. At that time, he was ranked 4th in the rank, Hun 4th, and received the Daisho Daerye Memorial Hall and the Showa Daerye Memorial Hall from the Japanese government.

Even after Japan's defeat in the Pacific War in 1945, he was elected president of the Korean Forestry Association and served as president of the Korean Forest Association, serving as a leading figure in the U.S. military government and green projects in the early days of the founding of the Republic of Korea.

However, in 1949, he was arrested and questioned by the Special Investigation Committee on Anti-National Acts. Kim Hwa-joon had no reflection, and the Anti-People's Special Committee issued an opinion that he was an opportunistic shameless and abominable traitor who forgot the national consciousness. However, as the activities of the Anti-People's Special Committee were neutralized, the prosecution was canceled and punished for "a great contribution to the founding of the Republic of Korea through the forest greening project" and "a person who received a merit award from the Korean government." He is believed to have disappeared and been abducted to North Korea during the Korean War.

Among the 708 pro-Japanese groups announced in 2002, it was selected in three categories: the Central Committee, the provincial participation officer, and the Governor-General's Office, and was included in the list of prospective Japanese life dictionaries released in 2008 and 705 pro-Japanese anti-national activities released by the 2009 Committee on Pro-Japanese anti-national activities.

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 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office

Reference

 * Special Investigation Committee on Anti-National Acts, "Details of Suspects - Kim Hwa-joon, July 1949)(1) (2)