User:Dckewon5131/박종렬 (1877년)

Park Jong-ryeol (December 12, 1877 – January 15, 1958) was a Korean imperial official who served as a member of the Central Committee of the Japanese Government-General of Korea during the Japanese colonial period. The domicile was Bannam.

Life
He was from Chungju-gun, North Chungcheong Province. In 1901, he graduated from the Department of General Studies at the Government-public Hanseong Japanese Language School.

In 1904, he became a reporter for the Daehan Ilbo, and in 1906, he served as an assistant instructor at the Government Hanseong Japanese Language School, an interpreter at Hamgyeongnam Observatory, a judge at Hamgyeongnam Court in 1908, a prosecutor at Hamgyeongnam Court in July of the same year, and a professor at Hanseong Foreign Language School in October of the same year.

After the signing of the Korea-Japan Annexation Treaty, he received the Korea Annexation Memorial Medal in 1912 and served as a member of the old government-level system investigation committee without a special government post. As of 1935, it was ranked 6th as a member of the Central Committee.

Launched in 1924, he served as an executive of the Dongmin Association, a representative pro-Japanese organization during this period that opposed Joseon's independence as well as compromising self-government movements.

It was included in the list of 708 pro-Japanese groups released by the National Assembly for National Regime in 2002 and the list of prospective candidates for the 2008 National Institute of Humanities of Japan, it was also included in the list of 705 pro-Japanese anti-national activities released by the Committee on the Truth of Pro-Japanese Anti-National Activities in 2009.

See more

 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office

Reference

 * Park Jong-ryeol - Korean Studies Central Research Institute