User:Dckewon5131/오건일 (1913년)

Oh Geon-il (born 1913 -?) was a legal professional during the Japanese occupation and the early days of the founding of the Republic of Korea.

Life
He was born in Namjeju-gun, Jeju-do, and graduated from the English Department of Law at Kansai University in Japan in 1941. In 1939, while attending college, he passed the high civil service examination and entered the legal profession. He was appointed as a judge of the Governor-General of Joseon through the Gyeongseong District Court's Judicial Review and served as a judge of the Pyongyang District Court.

After liberation, he worked at a special property tribunal in charge of Japanese accumulated property at the Military Government Legal Affairs Bureau. He continued to serve as a judge in the U.S. military government. In 1947, he opened a lawyer's office in Seoul, and served as president of the Judicial Newspaper, a member of the Judicial Review Examination Committee, and a member of the Code Compilation Committee.

Jeong kook-un, a former Asahi Shimbun reporter, defended Lee when he was arrested in 1949 under the Anti-National Act. He was a lawyer for Roh Il-hwan during the National Assembly's Fraxis case.

He went missing in Seoul in 1950 during the Korean War. He is believed to have been kidnapped by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

In 2008, it was selected in the judicial section of the list of prospective people to be included in the pro-Japanese life dictionary published by the Institute for National Affairs.

Reference

 * Oh Geon-il - National History Compilation Committee