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Lee Geon-chun (18 January 1873 – 11 January 1936) was a diplomatic official of the Korean Empire and served as a member of the Central Committee of the Japanese Government-General of Joseon during the Japanese colonial period.

Life
After studying at Yukyeong Park, Korea's first modern government educational institution, he became an administrator of the Korean Empire in 1895. In 1996, he was appointed as an external translation official, and later established his career as an official in charge of foreign affairs by serving as an administrator, a translator, and a reference officer outside.

In 1910, when the Korea-Japan annexation treaty was signed, he served as a member of the Provisional Paid State Property Investigation Bureau established by Japan to nationalize the imperial property of the Korean Empire. Immediately after the annexation of Korea and Japan, he was appointed and participated in the Central Committee established by the Governor-General of Joseon, and even after the reorganization of the Central Committee in 1921, he held a three-year conference and worked at the Central Committee for about 14 years.

In 1914, he donated 4 won to the Gyeongseong Military Support Association to support World War I, and in 1915, when the Joseon Product Co-operation Association, an event to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the annexation of Korea and Japan, was held, he contributed 20 won. In 1916, the Japanese mobilized the executives of the Central Committee to carry out the Bando Temple Compilation Project, which later developed into the Joseon History Compilation Society, and Lee Geon-chun participated as the chief investigator. When a pro-Japanese group called Daedong Sammunhoe was organized in the Confucian circle in connection with the cultural rule advocated by the 3rd Governor-General of Joseon Saito Makoto as a conciliatory measure after the March 1st Movement, he served as the president of Pyeongsa.

Starting with receiving the Crown Prince Jado Han Memorial Medal in 1909 and the Korean Merger Memorial Medal in 1912, he was awarded the Hun 4th Class Seo Bo-bo in 1920 and the Showa Daerye Memorial Medal in 1928.

It was selected on both the list of 708 pro-Japanese groups announced in 2002 and the list of prospective candidates to be included in the pro-Japanese dictionary of the National Institute of Korean Studies released in 2008. In 2007, the Korean Committee for Pro-Japanese Anti-ethnic Act finally selected him as a Pro-Japanese Anti-ethnic Act and included him in the list of 195 Pro-Japanese Anti-ethnic Activities.

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 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office
 * the Great East Asian Society