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Park Kwan-soo (1897–1980) was a Korean educator, social worker, and conservative activist during the Japanese colonial period. He was well-known as a teacher during Park Chung-hee's high school days and worked in anti-communist right-wing civic groups in the 1960s and 1970s. He served as the first chairman of the Korea Anti-Communist Federation, the third to fourth chairmen of the Korean Senior Citizens' Association, and the second chairman of the Institute for Communist Rights Affairs. The domicile was Miryang, and the pen name was Geumgye. He was from Ulsan.

Adolescence
He was born in Ulsan, Gyeongsangnam-do, to a scholar of Miryang Park's family. Although his life was poor when he was young, he was able to start his studies with the help of Kim Hong-jo, a local governor in Ulsan. Kim Hong-jo conducted a scholarship project for local talents and sent them to Japan to study. Later, Park Kwan-soo married Kim Hong-jo's sister.

After graduating from Ulsan General School, which is now Ulsan Elementary School, he went to Gyeongseong High School in Gyeongseongbu. He then left for Japan to study, graduated from Hiroshima High School of Education in 1919, and entered the Imperial University of Tokyo. While studying in Japan, he was imprisoned for an independence movement as an international student. In 1922, he graduated from Tokyo Imperial University with a degree in philosophy.

after return to the country
After returning to Korea, he was commissioned as a teacher and worked as an education teacher and psychology teacher at Daegu Normal School. At that time, he taught Park Chung-hee, who was a student of Daegu Normal School. After serving as a lecturer at Suwon High School of Agriculture, he worked for a long time as a city official, an educational official belonging to the Japanese Government-General of Korea. In 1939, she became the principal of Gyeonggi Public High School. At this time, he was said to have taught faculty and staff about the exhibition system while worshiping Gungseong.

While serving as the principal of Gyeonggi High School, he was the founder of the Joseon Imjeonbo National Team, which was formed in 1941 to support the Pacific War. Since then, he has served as the principal of Chuncheon High School.

after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule
After Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in August 1945, he retired for a while and then re-entered the educational world, and in 1952, he was appointed a professor at Kyungpook National University

Since then, he has served as the dean and dean of the legal university of Kyungpook National University, the principal of Daejeon High School, Ulsan Agricultural High School, Daejeon High School, and Okcheon High School, and served as a professor of Hanyang University in 1961.

Since Park Jung-hee took power due to the May 16 military coup, he has been invited to serve as the head of several anti-communist right-wing groups and civic groups.

In 1965, he served as chairman of the Dangun Spirit Promotion Association, president of the Silla Oreung Conservation Association, chairman of the Asian National Anti-Communist Federation, and the first chairman of the Korea Anti-Communist Federation in 1966. In 1967, he was appointed honorary president of the Preparatory Committee for the Establishment of the National Association of Senior Citizens. When Han Jae-deok, chairman of the Communist Zone Research Institute from Vietnam, died in 1970, he was invited to serve as the second chairman of the Communist Zone Research Institute. Regarding this, Yoon Hyung-bok raised suspicions, saying that he was a teacher of Park Chung-hee, so he provided a position.

After being the chairman of the Institute for Communist Affairs, he served as Hyun Jeong-hoe, chairman of the Jeonbuk Maeil Newspaper, and the third chairman of the Korean Senior Citizens' Association in August 1972. Since then, he has coached various anti-communist right-wing groups and conducted anti-communist lectures. In August 1978, he was re-elected as the fourth president of the Korean Senior Citizens' Association, but resigned in September 1980.

His books include "The Theory of Human Revolution", "The Peasants of North Korea", "The Workers of North Korea", "The Families and Women of North Korea", "Challenge to the Great Age", "The History of the Korean Anti-Communist Struggle", and "The National Reading". In particular, he continued to serve as chairman of the Anti-Communist Federation for 14 years from 1966 to 1980, playing a certain role in presenting the theoretical basis for security logic, the governing principle of the Third and Fourth Republic regimes.

After death
It was selected as an education/academic category from the list of prospective pro-Japanese biographical dictionaries released by the Institute for Ethnic Affairs in 2008, and was included in the list of 705 pro-Japanese anti-national activities released by the Committee on the Truth of Pro-Japanese Anti-National Act in 2009.

Award

 * Order of Merit for Red Jogeun

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 * 이주천

Reference

 * Park Kwan-soo - Central Research Institute of Korean Studies