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Park Yoon-jin (May 2, 1905 ~? ) was a Korean Buddhist monk. The pen name was Daewoo and the Buddhist name was Yeonghae.

Life
Originally, he was a monk registered in Heungguksa Temple in Goyang-gun, Gyeonggi-do. He graduated from Gyeongseong Jeil High School in 1927 and entered a Buddhist training school. While attending this school, he joined the mandang, which was organized by young monks with Han Yong-un as their leader.

The Buddhist training school was promoted to the Central Buddhist College when Park Yoon-jin was attending, and Park Yun-jin graduated from this school first and studied in Japan. He studied in the Department of Religion at Taisho University in Tokyo. While studying in Japan, there is a record of writing while participating in the editing and publishing of the magazine "Kumgangjeo" made by Tokyo's Confucian monks.

After graduating from Daisho University in 1934, he returned to Korea and became the chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Korean Buddhist Youth League. While working as instructors at his alma mater, the Central Buddhist College and Myeongseong School, he also served as a tour missionary at Bongeunsa Temple in Daebonsan Mountain and also worked as a missionary.

Since the time when Park Yun-jin returned to Korea, Kazushige Ugaki, the governor of Joseon, mobilized Buddhist and Confucian figures under the name of the Shimjeon development movement. Park Yoon-jin participated in the movement through public lectures at Bongeunsa Temple and broadcast lectures at Gyeongseong Broadcasting Station. In 1935, he married Kim Kyung-ju as a officiant and worked actively as a professor at Sookmyung Women's College.

In 1937, the Sino-Japanese War broke out, and the wartime political situation began. In December of that year, the Buddhist community decided to send a consolation delegation to the Japanese military on the Chinese front under the name of the Northern Jihwang Military Commission. Park Yun-jin was selected as a consolator and went to North China to deliver consolation goods. It was a typical control event to visit the Japanese Government-General of Korea, Jongno Police Station, and Japanese military units to greet each other and report to the Japanese Government-General of Korea after visiting the Joseon Shrine.

Park Yoon-jin began his pro-Japanese activities from the time of Japanese military consolation to the time of liberation. In 1938, the "General Candidate State Emphasis Week" was designated, and when there were various lecture events, he gave a lecture titled "The Spirit of National Reservation" at a lecture hosted by the Federation of Religious Organizations.

These lectures and contributions continued throughout the war.

Even until July 5, 1945, 40 days before Japan's defeat, he insisted on fighting until the end, saying, "There is a shout of immortality on the peninsula under the raid." at the event called the "Kyungseong Bumin Contest before the Battle of the Mainland"

It is known that the Korean Buddhist Youth League, which used to be a reformist youth monk organization, was deeply involved in the rapid pro-Japaneseization, including the resolution to support the Pacific War.

Due to excessive pro-Japanese activities at the end of Japanese colonial rule, he was unable to engage in social activities for about seven months after liberation. In 1946, he resumed his activities by publishing the article "Internal Construction of Each Country" in the first issue of "Shinsaeng," and soon took office as the finance director of the Joseon Buddhist General Affairs Office. While serving as a professor at Dongguk University, he was abducted to North Korea during the Korean War and has no news since then.

After death
Park Yoon-jin was an elite-educated scholar and a rare talent in the Buddhist world, and there was a review of the time that he was the Minister of Education for showing excellent skills in both speaking and writing.

When the list of 708 pro-Japanese groups was released in 2002, five Buddhist monks were included

One more person was considered a representative pro-Japanese figure in the Buddhist world, as there was an opinion that Park Yoon-jin would be added. It was selected as a religious category from the list of prospective pro-Japanese biographical dictionaries released in 2008 and was also included in the list of 705 pro-Japanese anti-national activities released by the pro-Japanese anti-national activities committee in 2009.

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 * Heungguksa Temple
 * Mandang
 * Northern Jihwang County Consolation Group