User:Dckewon5131/엄창섭 (1890년)

Um Chang-seop (July 1, 1890 – unknown year) was a Japanese colonial official whose hometown was Daeheung-myeon, Pyongyang, South Pyongan Province.

Life
In 1907, he worked at the government office in charge of slaves and in 1908, working at the palace as an official at the end of the Korean Empire. After the annexation treaty between Korea and Japan was signed in 1910, Office of the Yi Dynasty was established in charge of the imperial family of the former Korean Empire, and Eom Chang-seop was appointed to Office of the Yi Dynasty.

In 1912, he was transferred to the military secretary of the Japanese Government-General of Korea and assigned to Gangdong-gun, Pyeongannam-do. After that, he was promoted to director after passing through the library of Pyeongannam-do, and worked in the social and local departments of the Pyeongnam Ministry of Internal Affairs. He was appointed as the governor of Anju-gun, Pyeongannam-do, secretary of the Central Committee of the Government-General of Korea, and director of the Hakmu Bureau of the Government-General of Korea. He also served as an executive secretary of the Joseon History Association.

In 1935, when he was a director of the Governor-General's Office of Education, he was included in the list of commendations awarded by the Governor-General in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of his administration. He served as governor of Jeollanam-do and Gyeongsangbuk-do at the end of the Japanese colonial period after passing through Gyeongsangnam-do and Hamgyeongnam-do participation centers. As of 1942, when he was the governor of Jeollanam-do, he was ranked fourth in rank, Hun third in rank.

He led the formation of several pro-Japanese organizations while working at the State Administration of the Governor-General. The Korean Federation of Educational Organizations, which aims to guide youth ideology, moved, chaired the Joseon Exhibition and Religious Affairs Council, which was organized by religious circles, and led the establishment of the Dialogue Alliance just before the end of the Pacific War.

After serving as a provincial governor, he served as the head of the department of the Governor-General from August 1944, and faced the end of the Pacific War. In the "Anti-People's Crime" published in 1949, it is written as "a person who sat in the head of the school affairs bureau of the Governor-General at the end of the war and became a frontman to harass the students of the land." Considering that only two people, including Um Chang-seop, served as the director-general of the government-general as Koreans during the Japanese colonial period, it is also said that his loyalty can be guessed.

In 1949, Um Chang-seop was also arrested by the Anti-People's Special Committee under the Anti-National Act Punishment Act, but Roh Ki-nam, a Catholic bishop who had previously been indebted to Um Chang-seop, sent a Bible and doctrines and indirectly campaigned for release. Eom Chang-seop felt grateful to Roh Ki-nam for this and was given a baptism in the Catholic Church when he was released after the special anti-government committee was suspended during the trial.

After death
It was included in five categories among the 708 pro-Japanese groups announced in 2002, in the bureaucracy section among the list of prospective pro-Japanese biographical dictionaries compiled by the Institute for Ethnic Affairs in 2008, and in the 705 pro-Japanese anti-national activities list released by the Committee on the Truth of Pro-Japanese Anti-National Act in 2009. His son-in-law Kim Hee-deok is also on the list.

See more

 * Korean War Religions Association
 * the Dialogue Alliance

Reference

 * Um Chang-seop - National History Compilation Committee