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Shin Seok-woo (30 June 1869 – 19 January 1942) was a North Jeolla Provincec ommunity leader and capitalist during the Japanese occupation. The main building is Pyeongsan. According to the Central Committee of the Korean Government-General, he was involved in the National Association. He has the same name as Shin Seok-woo (1895-1953), an independence activist who was active in almost the same era, but is different from each other.

Life
He is known to come from a Namin's family.

Until the conclusion of the Korea-Japan annexation treaty, there were no notable activities other than serving as an instructor at Gyeongseongbu Government Middle School and the head of Hansan-gun, Chungcheongnam-do. From this time on, he was already a wealthy man with considerable wealth, but after 1910, he donated a large amount of money to educational, construction, and medical projects in Gunsan-bu and became famous in the region

In 1915, the Japanese Government-General of Korea participated in the 5th Anniversary of the Japanese annexation of Korea as a member of the Gunsan Sponsorship Association.

In the same year, he served as a building committee member of Gunsan Shrine and a special temple for the Japanese Red Cross. Since then, he has worked with the titles of local community leader, including the special councilor of the Gunsan Chamber of Commerce, the principal of Gunsan Youth Night School, the Gunsan Department disaster, and vice council members. He received several rewards from the Japanese colonial government for donating to public works and focusing on educational projects.

In 1920, the head of the Gaekju union in Gunsan and tthe executive director of Honam Products Co., Ltd. In 1924, he was also active as a capitalist, such as being in charge of auditing Honam Products, and in 1921, he was selected as a member of the Central Council of the Governor-General of Joseon, the best honorary position for Koreans to rise. Around this time, he was involved in the National Association of New Japanese Organizations led by Min Min-sik, and in 1929, he served as the head of the Jeonbuk General Support Center of Daeseongwon, a pro-Japanese organization affiliated with Confucianism.

On the other hand, according to a Japanese character review written in 1917, he is a generous person who is not stingy in giving up personal property for the social and public interest, and he is delighted with the annexation of Korea and Emperor Meiji in his daily life.

He was also good at poetry, and when he attended a general meeting in Tokyo in 1916 as a special member of the Japanese Red Cross, he visited Meiji's tomb and wrote a Chinese poem praising him. In 1929, on the occasion of Emperor Showa's birthday, an advertisement for the celebration of the Ceiling Day was posted in the Maeil Sinbo under the name of Dae Seong-won, head of Jeonbuk General Support.

In 1934, there is a record of continuing to work as an industrialist, such as establishing a mining right on more than 990,000 pyeong of land in Seocheon-gun, Chungcheongnam-do. In 1940, he changed his surname to Ishikawa, and died two years later.

After death
It was selected on both the list of 708 pro-Japanese groups announced in 2002 and the list of prospective pro-Japanese biographical dictionaries released by the National Institute of Korean Studies in 2008, and on the list of 195 pro-Japanese anti-ethnic activities announced by the Korea Committee in 2007.

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 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office
 * the National Association
 * Daeseongwon
 * Min Won-sik
 * Bak Jungyang
 * Kim Myung-jun