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Park Yong-hwan (born July 1, 1878) is an operative during the Japanese occupation. His hometown is Gyeongan-myeon, Gwangju-gun, Gyeonggi-do. Other names include Park Byung-il and Park Kyu-hwan. The domicil is Miryang.

Life
He ran a miscellaneous business and financial business in Jongno, Gyeongseongbu, but moved to Vladivostok, Russia in 1917 when the business failed. While running Pojo Heungshin, he grew into a leading member of Shinhan Village in Vladivostok, and has been a spy for Japanese government since Japan's intervention in Siberia. On March 14, 1920, he was attacked by anti-Japanese independence fighters working in Vladivostok.

On April 9, 1920, he said, "I will never participate in the independence movement of Joseon at any recommendation, I will never try to promote the interests of the Japanese and Japanese soldiers, and I will not oppose the Joseon people with favor."

He submitted a pledge to the Japanese Consulate General in Vladivostok, Kikuchi Yoshiro, saying, "We will actively cooperate in the role of spreading anti-Japanese independence forces to the Japanese government." In addition, he provided information on the independence movement groups in Vladivostok by establishing relations with the government-general official Yamazaki Saneo and the police director of the government-general of Joseon, Tsurukichi Maruyama.

Since his appointment as vice chairman of the Korean People's Assembly in Vladivostok in 1921, he has actively cooperated with Japan's policy of controlling and conciliating Koreans in Russia and provided military rice to the Japanese military. In December 1922, when the Japanese troops withdrew from Siberia, they felt threatened, and on January 25, 1923, they moved to Sakhalin.

While participating in Japan's Sakhalin pioneering project, he borrowed colonial loans to develop Sakhalin farmland and used part of his pioneering profits to build houses and schools for Korean workers, but as a result, he was criticized by many Korean workers.

On April 26, 1924, he was appointed as vice chairman of the Korean Mutual Aid Association, and was elected to Honto Jeong in the Karafuto Local Council election held on September 3, 1929. In 1936, while serving as vice chairman of the Korean People's Assembly Vladivostok, he filed a lawsuit against the Governor-General of Joseon, claiming that he lost about 20,000 yen while implementing the so-called "Korean Relief Project," which was a major project of the civil society. Sano Yamazaki, a Japanese secretary who was a reference to the lawsuit, said he had helped Japan's policy of controlling and conciliating Koreans in Russia and evaluated him as a person who could even participate in the military or the Central Committee of the Korean Government.

It was included in the overseas category of the list of people in the pro-Japanese dictionary of the Institute for National Affairs, and on the 705 people list of pro-general national activities announced by the Committee on the Truth of Pro-General National Act.