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Lee Gap-yong (4 April 1894 – 30 May 1966) was an entrepreneur and bureaucrat during the Japanese occupation and served as a member of the Central Committee of the Japanese Government-General of Joseon.

Life
He was from Goseong-gun, South Gyeongsang Province. Since his youth, he has operated a trade grain fertilizer dealer in Goseong, and has become a large capitalist through the liquor industry and consignment sales of seafood. In the 1940s, he became president of Goseong Industrial Co., Ltd.

While working as an entrepreneur, he went through various positions held by local leaders, including the director of Goseong Financial Union, Goseong Hakmu Committee, Goseong Rural Guidance Committee, Goseong Song Committee, Goseong Agricultural Association Vice Chairman, Goseong Industrial Union, and Goseong Casting Union. As he emerged as a representative rich and powerful person in Goseong-gun, he expanded his activities by serving as a member of the Goseong-myeon Council, a member of the Gyeongnam-do Council (1930-1941), and a member of Goseong-eup (1941), and was appointed as a member of the Central Committee at the end of the Japanese colonial period.

During the Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War, he participated in various organizations under the wartime system and took the lead in supporting the war. He served as an advisor to the Goseong Regional Committee of the Flying Association and the Goseong Defense Council, defending the war and sponsoring the draft. In recognition of these achievements, he was awarded the Goseong Gyeongbangdan Commendation Certificate in 1944, and in his congratulatory speech, he replied, "I will work hard with the intentions of the Imperial People (the new people of the Japanese Empire)."

When the Japanese-language newspaper "Busan Daily" published a special edition predicting the all-out movement of Goseong-gun in 1941, Lee Gap-yong contributed an article titled "Emergency Issues of Authorities with Culture and Training." It is to urge cooperation in wartime life and to promote the spirit of the people. In addition, he participated in touring lectures held in various parts of Gyeongsangnam-do in 1942 and gave a lecture titled "Implementation and Purpose of the Conscription System" to promote the conscription system policy. Lee Gap-yong's position at the time was the director of Gyeongsangnam-do Province of the National Federation of Korean Residents, and this tour was a large event with an average of 6,000 people participating in each county.

In January 1944, about a year and a half before the end of the war, a newspaper advertisement containing the phrase "Let's make a full charge in the showdown" was published in the Busan Daily. In the same year, as war supplies became scarce, various grains were released and sent as war supplies while traveling around various villages in Goseong-gun.

After Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule, it was arrested by the Anti-People's Special Committee in 1949, but was released due to insufficient evidence.

After death
The list of 708 pro-Japanese groups jointly announced by the National Assembly to establish national spirit in 2002 with the Liberation Association included executives of the Central Committee, but Lee Gap-yong was omitted. In 2008, it was selected as the center of the list of prospective pro-Japanese life dictionaries compiled by the Institute for National Affairs and was also included in the list of 705 pro-Japanese anti-national activities announced by the Pro-Japanese Anti-National Act Committee in 2009.

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 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office