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Kim Hee-jak (?~?) was a leader of the Northwest region during the Japanese colonial period and served as a member of the Central Committee of the Governor-General of Joseon.

Life
His career before 1904 is unknown, but he was one of the leader of the region even before the annexation treaty was signed in 1910, such as establishing a night school in Seoncheong-gun, Pyeonganbuk-do and serving as a academic inspector of the Northwest Society. In 1909, the Iljin Association expressed opposition to the petition for annexation of the Iljin Association. At this time, Kim Hee-jak was the chairman of the Korean Association's Innate Branch, and there is a record of being a Christian.

When the Provincial Council was newly established in 1920, he was elected to the Pyeonganbuk Council of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and held various positions as local power, including the head of the Suncheon Forest Association and the special member of the Suncheon-gun Agricultural Association. After being re-elected to the Pyeongbuk Council in 1924, he was appointed to the Central Council in 1925 and served for three years until his term expired. In 1928, when he was serving as a member of the Central Council, he received the Showa Daerye Memorial Medal from the Japanese government.

When Gyeonghakwon established Myeongryun Academy as an affiliated educational institution in 1930, he served as a council member for two years. Myeongryun Academy was an institution established in a policy manner to extract favorable parts of Confucian philosophy for Japanese imperialism and spread the ideology needed by the Governor-General of Joseon.

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 was also selected as the 195 pro-Japanese anti-national activities announced by the Korea Anti-nationality Commission in 2007.

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 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office
 * Myeongryun Academy