User:Dckewon5131/박암 (1905년)

Park Am (October 10, 1905~ ?)was a South Korean civil servant who served as a Manchukuo official during the Japanese colonial period.

Life
Goryeong-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do, was the domicile and hometown. After serving as secretary of the Sinuiju Chamber of Commerce and Industry, he served as a lecturer at Daedong Technical College, a private school in Pyongyang.

After that, he moved to Manchuria and lived in Xuran, Jilin Province, at the end of the Japanese colonial period. He served as an officer in Xuran and served as the chairman of the Korean Residents' Association. In 1943, he wrote "Manchuria Song" in "Peninsula Painting and Nakto Manchurian" published by Manseonhakhaesa, a pro-Japanese Korean newspaper.. The booklet was published in Xinjing in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the founding of Manchuria by the Japanese Empire.

During the U.S. military administration, he worked as a public official in the First Republic after being appointed as the director of the General Affairs Bureau of the Central Price Administration, which was established as an aide to military ministers. After serving as the head of the Incheon Customs Office and the director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he became the vice minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1951 during the Korean War. Putting benevolence into action and provincial chairman of the National Institute of Culture since former leader of the International Union Against Cancer.

It was included in the overseas category among the list of prospective candidates for the pro-Japanese biographical dictionary published by the Institute for Ethnic Affairs in 2008 for the compilation of the pro-Japanese biographical dictionary.

Reference

 * Park Am - National History Compilation Committee
 * Park Am - Korea Institute of Public Administration