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Sa Kwang-wook (October 7, 1909 ~January 2, 1983 )Sa Kwang-wook (October 7, 1909 – January 2, 1983) was a legal professional who served as the Supreme Court justice of the Republic of Korea during the Japanese occupation. I'm from Cheolsan-gun, North Pyongan Province. The domicile was Cheongju and was an elder of the Seoul Central Church.

Life
After graduating from Gyeongseong Law School, he passed the Joseon lawyer Examination and the Higher Civil Service Examination in succession, and became a judge of the Joseon Governor-General. In 1943, at the end of the Japanese colonial period, he was appointed as a judge and served as a judge of the Gyeongseong District Court, and faced the end of the Pacific War.

He served as a judge under the U.S. military government and became a senior judge of the Seoul District Court in 1946 and a senior judge of the Seoul High Court in 1952. After serving as a Supreme Court judge through the Daegu District Court and the Daegu High Court, he was appointed as a Supreme Court judge by Chairman Park Chung-hee after being recommended by the National Reconstruction Supreme Council under the Emergency Measure Act in 1961.

He served as a member of the Law Compilation Committee and an executive secretary of the Legal Association, and in 1963, he was appointed as the first chairman of the National Election Commission by the May 16 military political forces and served until 1968. After stepping down from the Supreme Court in 1973, he began practicing as a lawyer.

In 1961, the Supreme Court's criminal department found him guilty of seduction and attempted blackmail of minors, known as Korea's first Korean-only horizontal writing judgment.

After death
His son-in-law Kim Hyung-sun also served as the Supreme Court justice of the Republic of Korea in the 6th Republic.

In 2008, it was selected in the judicial section of the list of prospective people to be included in the pro-Japanese life dictionary published by the Institute for National Affairs.

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 * National Election Commission
 * Jeon Chil-hong

Reference

 * Sha Kwang-wook - Korean Studies Center
 * Sha Kwang-wook - National History Compilation Committee