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Um Sang-seop (23 May 1907 – 3 May 1960) was a lawyer during the Japanese colonial period and a South Korean politician. The domicile was Yeongwol, and the pen name was Hyodang.

Born in Gwangyang, Jeollanam-do, he graduated from Gwangju Normal School, passed the justice department of the Japanese High Civil Service Examination, and served as the head of the Busan District Prosecutors' Office, prosecutors, lawyers, high school exam committee members, Hongik University president, and chairman of the National Assembly's Legislation and Judiciary Committee.

He served as the second and fourth legislators. He was deeply involved in the drafting of the Korean Criminal Code and laid the foundation for Korean criminal law.

It was included in the judicial sector among the list of prospective candidates in the pro-Japanese biographical dictionary of the Institute for Ethnic Affairs released in 2008.

Eight prosecutors, including Um Sang-seop, submitted their resignations in 1948 after the establishment of the Korean government and announced that they would step down to foster the national spirit

Later, in his memoirs, he said he was ashamed of patriots and said, "No matter how much I apologize for cooperating with the rule of Japan," referring to the 2008 Institute of Ethnic Affairs as one of the representative examples of pro-Japanese power reflection.

Meanwhile, Um Sang-seop's criminal law books are put together and professor Shin Dong-woon's "Hyodang Um Sang-seop's Criminal Law Discussion" was published in 2003.

Reference

 * Um Sang-seop - Korean Tribute Society