User:Dckewon5131/이경재 (1880년)

Lee Gyeong-jae (born July 16, 1880 in the lunar calendar) was a police officer during the Korean Empire and Japanese occupation. He was active in China after his retirement.

Life
The hmetown was Bukcheong-gun, Hamgyeongnam-do. In his teens, he attended private schools and Gyeonghakwon in Bukcheong, and in 1904, he came to Hanseongbu to study at private Gwangmu School and private law school.

In 1907, he entered the Ministry of Finance of the Korean Empire as a tax apprentice, and became a police officer of the National Police Agency in the same year. At that time, Lee Kyung-jae was a member of Iljinhoe. Soon after, he was dispatched to Bukgando as a police officer of the Department of General Affairs. From 1908 to the following year, he served as a lieutenant of the temporary police box of the Tonggambu, and was in charge of collecting information on the anti-Japanese movement in the Gando area, including the overthrow of the Lee Beom-yoon unit.

After signing the Korea-Japan annexation treaty, he served as a police officer dispatched to the Japanese Government-General of Korea for about six years from 1912. In 1919, he briefly moved to the police station of the Japanese Consulate General. The Independent Newspaper, published in 1919 when he was a police officer, described him as "the best detective dog ever". From 1920, he worked closely with Japan as a maintenance of the Gando area. He deliberately clashed with the Chinese, called in the Japanese army, and actively cooperated in the process of establishing Manchuria through the war of aggression.

His experience is spectacular, including chairman of the Samdan Alliance in 1920, member of the Joseon People's Union in 1922 for three years, member of the Yongjeongchon Workers' Union in 1925, executive member of the Joseon People's Union in Gando for four years from 1931, and executive member of the Hunchun Autonomous Political Office in 1932. In particular, in 1931, when the People's Livelihood Group, a spy organization, was organized, he became a promoter, and became a director of the board of directors of the People's Livelihood Group the following year.

He participated as a founding member of the Manmong Ilbo in 1933 and served as chairman of the board in 1936. Around this time, the Self-Defense Forces were organized to provide convenience for the eradication of anti-Japanese forces. He also promoted the founding spirit of Manchukuo, which is the Five Nationalities Reconciliation. From 1940, the end of the Japanese colonial period, he worked as an entrepreneur, including Seongdong Industrial Co., Ltd. and President of Gando Heung-A Industrial Co., Ltd.

In 1934, he was awarded the National Foundation Daejeon Commemorative Medal by the Manchukuo government, and in 1935, he was awarded a commendation to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the city government.

After death

 * In 2007, the Korean Committee for Pro-Japanese Anti-ethnic Act announced a list of 195 pro-Japanese anti-ethnic acts in the overseas sector. It is included in the police and overseas sections of the list of prospective people to be included in the pro-Japanese life dictionary released by the Institute for National Studies in 2008.

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 * Iljinhoe
 * the people's livelihood group