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Bae Sang-myung (1906 – February 17, 1986) was a Korean educator who founded Sangmyung University. The pen name was Gyedang and Minjeong.

Life
She was born in Gangseo-gun, South Pyongan Province. In 1923, she graduated from Dongdeok Girls' School, worked as a teacher at Samseon School in Gyeongseongbu, and studied in Japan. After graduating from the Department of Education at the Tokyo High School of Technology in 1937, she returned to Korea and established the Sangmyeong High School of Technology in Jongno.

At the end of the Japanese colonial period, she participated in the war support work by mobilizing female educators who received new education while being the principal of Sangmyeong Girls' School. When the avant-garde Women's Encouragement Team was formed in September 1941, it participated and was dispatched to Haeju, Sariwon, and Anak-gun areas in Hwanghae-do, and urged women to support the war through lectures and discussions.

In May 1943, he attended a discussion hosted by the pro-Japanese magazine "Jo Gwang" and made a statement praising the conscription system, and served as a member of the Women's University of Korea.

In the article "Let's be a woman who will remain in history" published in Maeil Sinbo on May 13, 1942, the application of conscription to Joseon is an "unspeakable joy of the people of the peninsula" and calls for becoming a woman of a military state based on the Japanese spirit.

In 1948, she left for the United States to inspect the United States as a member of the education inspection team for the heads of women's middle and high schools, where she studied at Columbia University's College of Education. In July 1945, just before liberation, Sangmyeong Academy was established and inaugurated as the chairman, and after returning from the United States, private school corporations such as Dongdeok Girls' Academy, Younghoon Academy, and Minjeong Academy were established to serve as the chairman.

In recognition of his dedication to women's education, she was awarded the Order of Culture in 1964 and the Order of Peony in 1982. In Sangmyeong University, a seated statue of Bae Sang-myeong was built on the campuses of Seoul and Cheonan, and the Gyedang Memorial Hall and Gyedang Scholarship were also built under the title of Bae Sang-myeong.

It is included in the education/academic section of the list of prospective candidates for inclusion in the pro-Japanese life dictionary compiled by the National Research Institute in 2008. In 2009, it was included in the list of 705 pro-Japanese anti-ethnic acts announced by the Pro-Japanese Anti-ethnic Acts Commission.

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 * Sangmyung University
 * Sangmyung high school
 * Korea Imjeonbo National Foundation

Reference

 * Bae Sang-myung - Korea Research Institute
 * Bae Sang-myung - Korea Research Institute