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Park Ki-soon (May 27, 1857 in the lunar calendar – September 30, 1935) was a regional governor of Jeollabuk-do during the Japanese colonial period. The domicile was Chungju.

Life
He briefly served as a member of the Central Committee of the Korean Empire in 1901 and also worked at Sijongwon in 1906, but his medical history as a large landowner in Jeollabuk-do and a businessman who adapted well to the trend of modernization is more prominent. In 1906, he became a member of the founding committee of the Jeonbuk Agricultural and Industrial Bank and in 1907, he became a member of the founding committee of the Jeonju Financial Association. In 1908, he took office as the bank president of Jeonbuk Agricultural and Industrial Bank and served until the signing of the Korea-Japan Annexation Treaty.

In 1909, before the annexation of Korea, he was already appointed as a member of the Jeonju branch of the Japanese Red Cross, and at the same time, he was appointed as the governor of Yeosan-gun (currently Iksan-si) and served as an official of the Japanese Government-General. Since then, he has been active in various positions as a maintenance officer in the Jeonbuk region. He served as a director of the Jeonbuk Gyeongpyeong Railway in 1916, a counselor at the Joseon Siksan Bank in 1918, the president of the Jeonju Financial Association in 1918, and the director of the Joseon Sericulture in 1919. When Masatake Terouchi, the first governor of Joseon, visited Jeonju in 1913, Park Ki-soon built and dedicated Song Deok-si.

As the March 1st Movement took place in 1919 and protests expanded nationwide, an organization was also organized to prevent the movement, centering on local leaders. In the Jeollabuk-do region, Jeonju Jaseonghoe was formed in Jeonju on April 21 with the support of Dojanggwan. Park Ki-soon participated as a promoter of the organization, was elected as the head of Jeonju branch, and led the organization to hold a lecture.

The Jeonju Self-Governing Society called the person responding to the March 1st Movement "a person who dares to engage in disturbing acts," and mobilized the farmers and tenants under the leadership of its members, to control the spread of independence and anti-Japanese movements.

Since then, he has served as a director of Jeonbuk Livestock and president of Jeonju Bank, and in 1924, he was selected as a member of the Central Council of the Japanese Government-General of Korea and served for three years until 1927. According to a media report in 1926, Park Ki-soon owned 986 information of land in Jeonju, Iksan, Okgu, Imsil, Namwon, Jangsu, and Geumsan in Jeollabuk-do. This is about 10 times the amount of 100 information farmland, which is the general standard of landowners. In 1930, he served as vice chairman of the Jeollabuk-do Agricultural Association and as a trade member of the Joseon Agricultural Association in 1931.

Starting with the receipt of the Korean Merger Memorial Medal in 1912, shortly after the annexation of Korea by the Japanese government, the Daisho Daeri Memorial Medal in 1915, the Showa Daeri Memorial Medal in 1928, and several commendations from the Japanese Government-General. In 1926, he was ranked seventh in the list.

After death
It was included in both the list of 708 pro-Japanese groups announced in 2002 and the list of prospective candidates for the pro-Japanese biographical dictionary released in 2008. In 2007, it was also selected as a list of 195 pro-Japanese anti-national activities released by the Korea Anti-Japanese Anti-National Activities Committee.

In front of the student hall of Chonbuk National University, Deokjin Park Jibi, established by the Japanese mayor of Jeonju-eup in 1934, remains. This monument contains the achievements of Jeonju-eup Mayor and Park Ki-soon. In Deokjin Park in Jeonju, a pavilion built by Park Ki-soon in commemoration of his 60th birthday is also preserved. After the controversy, a signboard containing Park Ki-soon's pro-Japanese activities was set up in front of the preference in 2005.

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 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office