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Yoo Il-sun (December 27, 1879 – April 11, 1937) was a Protestant pastor during the Japanese occupation and served as a commissioned officer at the Japanese Government-General of Korea.

Life
He was from the government department of Hanyang. He studied in Japan with the help of Wadase, a pastor of the Japanese Union Church, and graduated from the Tokyo Physical School in 1904.

After graduation, he briefly studied meteorology at the Central Meteorological University in Tokyo and returned to Korea. Starting with Ilshin School teacher in 1905, he served as principal and arithmetic teacher at Sangdong Youth Academy from the following year. At that time, Sangdong Youth Academy was a place where many Protestant enlightened young people gathered around Jeon Deok-gi, a evangelist, etc. Yoo Il-sun was involved in the publication of "Gadyeong Magazine" published in pure Korean under the leadership of Jeon Deok-gi in 1906, and in 1908, she participated in the Korean Society and the Kihoheung Society and actively engaged in social activities.

In 1907, he was appointed as an instructor at the government-run Korean-Japanese language school to teach Japanese, and served as a teacher and principal at Sookmyung Girls' High School and Hwimun High School's telegraph school.

In 1911, the year after the Korea-Japan annexation treaty was signed, he was appointed as the lieutenant general of the Gyeongseong Department, who was treated as a judge. He served as a deacon at Hanyang Church, established in Seoul by the Japanese Union Church, and studied theology at the theology department of Doshisha University in 1913.

When the March 1st Movement occurred in 1919, he participated in the March 1st Movement Calm Movement organized to calm it. He served as the chief of the Honam region, and was included here in 1920 when the Independent Newspaper, an organ of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, cited seven enemies that must be punished. In September 1919, when the aftermath of the March 1 Independence Movement remained, he gave a lecture titled "Thorough Inner Line" at the Central Committee of the Korean Government-General, saying that for the happiness of Joseon, Japan must be loved. He also participated as a spy in a maneuver decorated by Japan to capture Yeo Woon-hyung and played a role in monitoring the activities of Yeo Woon-hyung and Jang Deok-soo.

His career is similar to that of Sun Woo-soon in that he worked as a pro-Japanese group after studying in Japan under the auspices of the Japanese Association Church, which advocated the "Chosun evangelism," his activities stand out, and his role as a spy for the Joseon Governor-General.

In 1921, he became the director of the Joseon Church Christian Association, the successor of the Japanese Association Church, and from 1924, he joined the Dongminhoe, a pro-Japanese group formed by influential figures such as Lee Jae-geuk, Park Young-hyo, Lee Wan-yong, and Park Seung-jik to counter the anti-Japanese movement. In 1936, he died of myocardial infarction the following year, after being commissioned by the local department of the Gyeonggi-do Ministry of Interior of the Joseon Governor-General.

Meanwhile, in 1936, a year before his death, he married his second daughter, Yoo Young-hye, and his second son-in-law had a feud between the couple due to his love triangle with a geisha who had dated before marriage due to complicated relationships. In the end, Yoo Eui-tak, the brother of Yoo Young-hye and the son of Yoo Il-sun, was accused of attempted murder by stabbing a brother-in-law with a knife.

After death
It is included in both the list of 106 pro-national activities announced by the Committee on the Truth of Pro-Japanese Act in 2006 and the list of prospective pro-Japanese dictionaries compiled by the Institute for National Affairs in 2008.

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