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Son Jae-hyung

Born on June 4, 1902 (April 28, 1902 in the lunar calendar)- Died on June 15, 1981) is a South Korean calligrapher, The pen name is Sojeon.

Profile
He graduated from Yang Jeong Ui sook in 1925, and from the German department of the Foreign Language Academy in 1929. From that year to 1932, he studied calligraphy and gold lithology from Chinese gold scholar Na Jin-ok. It has been exhibited in Shenzhen since 1924. He was selected at the Joseon Calligraphy Association Exhibition in 1930, was a judge of the Joseon Calligraphy Association in 1933, and was a director and coin judge of the Joseon Calligraphy Association in 1934. In 1945, he was the chairman of the Joseon Calligraphy Research Association, and in 1947, he established Jindo Middle School in his hometown and became the chairman of the board. From 1947 to 1949, he was a full-time lecturer at Seoul National University College of Fine Arts and became a member of the Seoul Metropolitan Council for Cultural Affairs. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1949 to 1959, the 1st and 2nd Academy of Arts from 1954, and was elected as the 4th member of the Liberal Party in 1958. He served as a director of the Korean Artists Association in 1962, vice chairman of the judging committee for the Literary Arts Awards in May, and won the Best Picture Award of the Director of the Arts in the same year. From 1963 to 1964, he served as a full-time professor at Hongik University, and a year later, he became the chairman of the Korean Artists' Association in 1965, and served as the chairman of the National Assembly's jury in 1970.

Works
He is a representative calligrapher in Korea, and especially in Hangeul, he tried to raise the Korean writing to an artistic level by inventing handwriting such as Jeonseo, Yeseo, and Haengseo. It received the Seoul Culture and Arts Center Award. There are "Changkyungwon" and "Hwarangdae" in Korean, and "Lee Chungmugong Wall-breaking Monument" and "Yeongbingwan" in Chinese characters.

Anecdote
Kim Jeong-hee, the Korean National Treasure No. 180, moved to Japan with Fujitsuka at the end of Japanese colonial rule, but returned to Korea thanks to the efforts and wealth of calligrapher Sojeon Son Jae-hyung (1902-1981).