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Yoo Jeong-soo (April 11, 1857 – April 17, 1938) was one of the first Japanese students to attend the Joseon Governor-General's Central Committee during the Japanese colonial period. Yoo Gil-joon and Yoo Seong-joon are brother-in-law.

Life
When the Sinsa Tourist Group was dispatched in 1881, he went to Japan with Yoo Gil-joon as an attendant of Eo Yun-jung and studied at Keio's dormitory. They received attention from Japanese society because it was the first time that a person born abroad entered the school as an international student. In the Japanese media, he was introduced as a young apprentice who had no official or noble background in Joseon.

After returning to Korea, he was appointed to Hanseong Buyun in 1894 ,Along with Yoo Gil-joon, Yoon Chi-ho, Park Young-hyo, and Park Jung-yang, he worked as a pro-Japanese enlightenment official. In 1895, while serving as Hanseong Buyun, he issued an order prohibiting the construction of houses by committing roads, which is also evaluated as Korea's first guidelines for urban maintenance.

After being first appointed to the Central Council in 1921, he was reappointed in 1926, 1931, and 1936 and served as a councilor four times. He is also a central figure in the Confucian circle who served as the president of Gyeonghakwon Daeje Department and Myeongryunhak Institute.

After the signing of the annexation treaty between Korea and Japan, the Japanese government received the Korea Merger Memorial Award in 1912 and received the Daisho Daerye Memorial Medal and the Showa Daerye Memorial Medal to commemorate the accession of Emperor Daisho and Emperor Showa. He is also one of the 353 Koreans recorded in the Joseon Meritorious Self-Confession published by the Governor-General of Joseon in 1935.

It was included in the list of 708 pro-Japanese groups selected by the National Assembly in 2002 along with the Liberation Association and the list of prospective pro-Japanese dictionaries compiled by the Institute for National Affairs in 2008. On November 22, 2007, the Pro-General National Activist Property Investigation Committee decided to attribute Yoo Jeong-soo's property to the state, and on December 6, the Korean Pro-General National Act Investigation Committee included Yoo Jeong-soo in the list of 195 pro-general national acts.

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 * the Sinsa Tourist Group
 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office
 * Gyeonghakwon