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Nam Hak-bong (Japanese name: Nam Seung-yoon), or Nam Seung-bak, 1895 – ?) was a Japanese police officer during the Japanese occupation.

Life
From 1913, he worked as a teacher at the Gyeongsangbuk-do Jamyup Association, and in 1916, he became a police officer of the Japanese Government-General of Korea.

He worked as a police officer in the Gyeongsangbuk-do area for a long time, and in 1930, he was promoted to the Governor-General of Korea and was assigned to the Gyeongju Police Station. After that, he moved to the security department of the Gyeongsangbuk-do Police Department, and at the end of the Japanese colonial period, he worked at Pohang Police Station and Daegu Police Station, and was promoted to the police department at the end of the Pacific War.

While working as a high-ranking police officer, he suppressed the independence movement by investigating anti-Japanese organizations formed in Daegu to support the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. When Choi Seok-hyun captured and tortured Kim Chang-sook and maimed her in 1927, he joined Kim Chang-sook's adviser along with Go Chang-deok as Choi Seok-hyun's subordinate. It was included in 1935 when the Governor-General selected a commendator to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the city administration while serving as the Gyeongbu Department at the Gyeongju Police Station.

In 1949, he was arrested when the Special Investigation Committee on Anti-National Conduct began its activities. Nam Hak-bong was arrested at the end of January, the beginning of the Anti-People's Special Committee's activities, and was the first to be arrested in Daegu after Park Joong-yang and Seo Young-chul. After being released from prison once, he was re-arrested and investigated, but was not punished due to the suspension of the anti-People's Special Committee's activities.

It was included in the police section among the list of prospective candidates for the pro-Japanese biographical dictionary of the Institute for Ethnic Affairs released in 2008.

Reference

 * Nam Hak-bong - National History Compilation Committee