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Seo Chang-bo (born and died unknown) was a former official of the Korean Empire and he served as vice chairman of the pro-Japanese organization, the National Comrade of Japan..

Life
In 1896, he served as a governor of Hanseongbu, and for about four years from 1899, he served as a county governor in several places, including Eumseong-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do. He became a medical officer of the Central Committee of the Korean Empire in 1903 and a patent attorney in 1905.

While working as a bureaucrat, he often expressed his opinion with appeals when there were important political events. It was about King Gojong of the Korean Empire, who insisted on the restoration of Empress Myeongseong or was in the midst of an official visit, to the palace.

In 1898, he joined the Hwangguk Association and confronted the Independent Association, and after the signing of the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1905, he participated in the Eulsa Five-way Plan, which was planned by Na Chul, and was arrested and exiled. During the exile period, it was reported in the "National Sinbo" that he returned to pro-Japanese group in favor of the logic of Iljinhoe.

From 1909, he began sending books supporting the Iljinhoe's joint petition movement. Public opinion on this behavior, which was made in honor of Jin Shin, the representative of Confucianism, was not good, so stones flew into Seo Chang-bo's house every night and even people came to visit and beat him. Because of this, couldn't go outside at will. In particular, Seo Chang-bo's sister was the wife of Yoo Ki-hwan, who served as Minister of Law and Seo-ri instead of outside, and there is an anecdote that she was beaten and cut off the relationship between siblings.

When the atmosphere of the Korea-Japan annexation treaty was ripe in 1910, Lee Beom-chan and others formed the National Comrade of Friendship and held a campaign to serve as vice-chairman and submit a joint venture. Seo Chang-bo continued to be criticized by the public, with a poster stating that he would punish him by indicating his crime in the name of a group called the "Kumgye-dan was formed and actively engaged in activities. In 1934, when the Heukryonghoe established a memorial tower for Japan-Japan annexation in Japan, Seo Chang-bo's name was recorded as a contributor to the annexation of Korea-Japan.

It was included in the list of 106 pro-Japanese anti-ethnic activities investigated and published by the Committee on the Truth and Reconciliation of General National Acts in 2006, and was also included in the list of pro-Japanese life dictionaries published in 2008.

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 * the National Comrade of Friendship