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Yu Jin-hee (11 February 1893 – 31 August 1949) was a socialist activist during the Japanese occupation.

Life
He is from Yesan-gun, South Chungcheong Province. In 1921, he started the labor movement with the establishment of the Joseon Labor Mutual Aid Association, and Cause of Problems in the New Life Writing Case was sentenced to one and a half years in prison for carrying the "National Movement and the Tactics of the Proletariat" in the Russian Revolution Memorial issue.

Even after his release from prison, he worked for the Shanghai faction and founded the Joseon Communist Party, Korea's first communist party, in 1925, and was arrested in 1927 and sentenced to four years in prison and served a second time. In 1932, he became the publisher of the organ of the Communist Party of Korea, "New Territories".

He served as a right-wing politician after liberation from Japan's colonial rule, just like Lee Hang-bal and Shin Il-yong, who were imprisoned together for writing a new life. Immediately after liberation, he participated in the launch of the Korean National Party, and in September, he served as an executive of the right-wing party, the Korean Democratic Party, and was appointed as a legislative member of the Southern Joseon Dynasty under the U.S. military government.

In 1992, the Order of Merit for National Foundation was awarded.

Reference

 * Yoo Jin-hee: Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs of Korea
 * Park Jong-rin, Socialism in Korea: Person (1)/ Undone Flame, Songsan Kim Myung-sik, Progressive Review No. 2 (Winter 1999)