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Na Soo-yeon (October 20, 1861 to June 16, 1926) was a member of the enlightenment a military officer at the end of the Korean Empire and served as a member of the Central Committee of the Japanese Government-General of Joseon during the Japanese colonial period. The pen name is Sobong.

Life
In 1890, he was a military officer who passed the martial arts department and worked as a judge at the training center. In 1898, Hwangseong Newspaper was founded and operated with Namgung Eok, Jang Jiyeon, and Yoo Geun. Na Soo-yeon, who was in charge of Hwangseong Newspaper, was arrested in 1902 along with president Nam Gung-eok, but the reason for their arrest is not clear. There is a theory that this is because of the malicious intentions that Park Young-hyo, who was exiled to Japan at the time, decided to commit treason.

In 1905, he was appointed as the county governor of Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do after being a vice-principal of Hanseong Law School and returned to his official position. He also continued active social activities as a patriotic enlightenment movement, including serving as a general secretary of the Korean Club in the same year and as a general secretary of the Korean Autonomous Association in the following year. Around this time, a memorial service for Min Young-hwan, who committed suicide in protest against the conclusion of the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1905, was announced as a representative of the Korean Club. Since then, he has been active in internal management, the Taeguk Society, and the Korean Society. It is written in the "Korean Gyenyeon History" of the Orthodox Church that Na Su-yeon obtained after returning to office by requesting Han Seok-jin of Iljinhoe to serve as the governor of Cheorwon and the inner chief of the royal court.

The intellectuals of the enlightenment faction affiliated with the Hwangseong Newspaper and the Korean Independent Congress were absorbed into pro-Japanese group with the expansion of Japan's power, and in 1910, the annexation treaty between Korea and Japan was signed. Shortly after the annexation of Korea and Japan, Na Soo-yeon was appointed as a vice-chancellor of the Central Committee, an advisory agency established by the Governor-General of Joseon, and became a participant after the reorganization of the Central Committee in 1921. In 1912, while serving in the Central Committee, he was awarded the Korean Merger Memorial Medal by the Japanese government.

In 1914, a donation of KRW 2 was paid to the Gyeongseong Military Support Association, which sponsors the Japanese military and family, and in 1915, he participated in the Joseon Industrial Promotion Association held to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the annexation of Korea and donated KRW 10. From 1916, he was also in charge of research on the Bando History Compilation Project. The Bando History Compilation Project, organized by the Governor-General of Joseon, is stipulated for the purpose of the project to clarify that "Japanese and Koreans came from one root" and to reveal that "the annexation of Korea and Japan saved Koreans who were established in 1925.

Meanwhile, he was interested in oriental painting, so he participated as a promoter when the Calligraphy Association was launched in 1918, and was elected at the first Joseon Art Exhibition held in 1922.

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

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 * Hwangseong Newspaper
 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office