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Eo Dam (7 May 1881 – 5 July 1943) was a soldier of the Korean Empire and Japanese occupation. His hometown was Hamjong.

Life
Born in Gwangju-gun, Gyeonggi-do, he studied in Japan in 1895 as a state-funded international student. After studying at Keio, he entered the Japanese Military Academy in 1899 and graduated with the 11th term and in 1900, he was commissioned as a Korean Army artillery guard. Among his fellow students, Noh Baek-rin defected abroad to become an independence activist, Kim Kwan-hyun became an official of the Japanese government, and Eo Dam remained in the Japanese army. Yoon Chi-ho's younger brother, Yoon Chi-sung, also graduated with them, but died early.

When the Japanese troops were stationed in Joseon during the Russo-Japanese War, Eo Dam, who attended the Japanese Army, was recognized for his ability, and the Japanese Empire appointed him as a temporary officer to serve as a guard and surveillance officer. After the annexation treaty was signed in 1910, he worked for the Joseon Infantry, a royal guard unit of Yi Wang-jik. There is a record that when a police officer who was killed during the March 1 Independence Movement in 1919 came out, he attended the police officer's first marriage held at Gyeongbokgung Palace in 1921.

In 1930, he was promoted to lieutenant general of the Imperial Japanese Army, and in 1931, he was appointed to the council of the Central Committee of the Japanese Government-General of Korea and was reappointed in 1936. After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, when the Japanese implemented the volunteer military system in 1938, a statement supporting it was published in the Maeil Shinbo. He also served as a counselor at the Baeyeong-dong Branch and as a promoter of the Joseon Imjeonbo National Foundation.

After death
In 2002, a group of lawmakers who established national spirit was included in the 708-member pro-Japanese group announced with the Liberation Association, and in 2008, it was selected in the military and central circle category among the list of pro-Japanese life dictionaries compiled by the Institute for National Affairs. It is also included in the list of 195 pro-Japanese anti-ethnic acts announced by the Korean Committee on the Truth and Reconciliation of Pro-Japanese Anti-ethnic Acts in 2007.

Book
He left behind a memoir, "The Memoirs of the Commissioner of Eo Dam".

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 * 일본육군사Imperial Japanese Army Academy관학교
 * Korea Imjeonbo National Foundation