User:Dckewon5131/윤익선 (1871년)

Yun Ik-seon (1871 – 1946) was a Korean official and educator during the Japanese colonial period. The hometown was Papyeong.

Life
He was from Jangyeon-gun, Hwanghae-do, or Hansungbu, a remote area. He studied Chinese language when he was young, but took a course in the Department of Agriculture and Commerce and entered the relationship in 1896 as an engineer in the Department of Agriculture and Commerce.

In 1903, while working as an official, including a sixth-gradea junior official at the Gwangjewon in Naenae, he entered the newly established Boseong College in 1905 and graduated from the law department the following year.

After graduating from school, he served as a director of the Army Court, the head of the Army Prison, and the director of the Military Law of the Military Manpower Bureau and served as a legal expert.

After leaving the office in 1907, he transferred to an educator and served as the principal of Boseong College. Yoon Ik-sun was a believer in Cheondogyo who founded Boseong College.

He also actively participated in the March 1st Movement in 1919, along with his Cheondogyo colleagues. After serving as the president of the Chosun Independent Newspaper, an underground newspaper, it was printed at Boseongso, a Cheondogyo printing company, and distributed throughout the country. It was also designated as a judicial police officer of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, one of the provisional governments established after the March 1 Independence Movement. He was arrested in this case and sentenced to prison and served time.

After being released from prison, he founded Gyeongseong Library, the former name of Jongno Library, in Gyeongseong-bu, and moved to Manchuria to run a school in Longjing and worked as an educator. He was also the head of the Gando Education Association, and was a central figure in the local education community.

However, at the end of the Japanese colonial period, there was a pro-Japanese record. In 1936, he lived in Wonseo-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, and was recommended to Wonseojeongchongdae, and served as a member of the Gyeongseong Association of Education, the head of the Wonseojeong Hygiene Union, and the Shinsachongdae, served as acommunity leader in the Gyeongseong area, including being included in the "Daegyeong Successful Public Service Name". Daedong Iljinhoi donghak of the number announced the writing as principal of pro-Japanese.

In 1962, the National Medal of Merit for National Foundation was awarded. However, apart from the achievements of the March 1st Movement, there was controversy, such as being subject to a review of the medal in 1993 due to the pro-Japanese activities at the end of the Japanese colonial period. In 2008, it was selected as a list of prospective candidates for the pro-Japanese biographical dictionary organized by the Institute for Ethnic Affairs to be included in the pro-Japanese biographical dictionary.

Award

 * National Medal of Merit for National Foundation - Order 1962; Cancelled 2010

See more

 * Boseong College
 * Independent Newspaper of Korea

Reference

 * Yoon Ik-sun - Central Research Institute of Korean Studies
 * Yoon Ik-seon - National History Compilation Committee
 * Yoon Ik-sun: Meritorious Record of Independence Merit - Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs