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Shin Tae-ak (4 March 1902 – 1980) was a South Korean legal professional and politician who served as the ninth president of the Korean Bar Association. The pen name was Ilseong.

Life
Born in Buryeong-gun, North Hamgyong Province, he participated in the March 1 Independence Movement as a student representative while attending Gyeongseong Technical School (currently Seoul Technical High School) in 1919 and served six months in prison. In 1921, he was sentenced to one year in prison and two years of probation for the case of the Story of Sinuiju.

After graduating from Yeonhui University, he began his career as a lawyer in the Gyeongseong Department in 1932, after passing the Japanese High Civil Service Examination in 1931, while studying at Waseda University and Chuo University.

He was very politically ambitious and while working as a lawyer, he worked actively outside the society, including a senior member of the Science Knowledge Promotion Association (1934), a director of the Joseon Invention Association (1935), a vice chairman of the Joseon Bar Association (1936), and a chairman of Baek Dong-sook (1941). In 1942, he ran in the Japanese House of Representatives election in Osaka, where his lawyer's office was located. At this time, Shin Tae-ak gave a pro-Japanese speech supporting the ongoing Pacific War and promoting the logic of public rights in Greater East Asia to win the election, but was convicted along with his campaigner for violating the election law that bought voters from Japan.

He was ambitious enough to target the Japanese House of Representatives, so he actively participated in pro-Japanese groups that supported the war. He participated as a member of the Standing Committee of the Imjeon Countermeasures Council, which was formed under the leadership of Kim Dong-hwan in 1941, gave a pro-Japanese speech, and also participated in discussions and street promotion. He also served as a director of the Joseon Imjeonbo National Foundation, which was formed jointly by the Imjeon Countermeasures Council and Heungabo National Foundation, and also participated in the representative party organized by Park Chun-geum two months before liberation in 1945.

After Korea's liberation from Japan's colonial rule, he stopped working for a while, and in 1946, he started the Guguk Cultural History and published the monthly magazine "Guguk", jumping into the right-wing political movement and transforming into a politician of the 1st Republic. In 1949, he was arrested and investigated by the Special Investigation Committee on Anti-National Acts, but was released after being recognized for defending a difficult independence activist as a lawyer under the Japanese colonial rule.

In 1954, he ran in the third general election of the Republic of Korea and was defeated, and when Rhee Syng-man's Liberal Party was founded in 1952, he participated as a preparatory member and became the chairman of the Liberal Party's inspection committee the following year. He served as the 9th chairman of the Korean Bar Association and served as an elder in the legal community, and served as the chairman of the National Assembly of the Democratic Party in 1963, the chairman of the New Democratic Party in 1966, and the political committee of the National Party in 1971.

After death
Shin Tae-ak, who served as the head of the legal profession, was involved in the March 1 Independence Movement and the case of divine advocacy during the Japanese colonial period

As a lawyer under Japanese colonial rule who was suspended for eight months due to ideological instability, there is no official record of independence.,At the end of the Liberal Party, he was recorded as a conscientious intellectual who resisted the dictatorship.

It was included in the list of 708 pro-Japanese groups announced by the National Spirit-setting Assembly in 2002, the list of people to be included in the 2008 pro-Japanese biographical dictionary, and the 705 pro-Japanese anti-national activities announced by the pro-Japanese anti-national activities committee.

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 * Korea Imjeonbo National Foundation
 * the National Mobilization Council
 * Korean Bar Association

Korean Bar Association

 * Korean Bar Association (1979)
 * Korean Bar Association (1979)