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Lee Myo-mook (9 December 1902 – 27 February 1957 )was an educator during the Japanese occupation

The domicile was Jeonju and was from Sangwon-myeon, China-gun, Pyeongannam-do. He served as a Korean secretary to the founding of the Korean Democratic Party and the commander of the military government, Haji, and served as a diplomat and politician after the founding of the Republic of Korea.

Japapnese colonial era
He was born to the Jeonju Lee family in Junghwa-gun, South Pyongan Province. He graduated from Gwangseong School in Pyongyang in 1915 and Yeonhui Specialized School in 1922 and briefly served as a teacher at Gongju Yeongmyeong School. He left the U.S. in July 1923, where he studied in the U.S., graduating from Mount Union University in Ohio in 1925.

He received his master's degree from Syracuse University, where he graduated from Harvard University in 1930, and received a doctorate in philosophy from Boston University in 1931.

He stayed in the United States until 1934, lecturing on history at Syracuse University, and returned to Korea in 1936 to be elected vice president of the Korean branch of the British Asian Society. After returning to Korea in the mid-1930s, he served as a professor at Yeonhui College and served as a library director and dean of Yeonhui College in 1944.

After Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule, he founded the English newspaper and became the first president, and also became a director of the Yeonhui University Foundation.

In the late 1930s, he was arrested for his involvement in the Suyang-dong Association case, and after submitting a letter of conversion, he was suspended from prosecution in the Suyang-dong Association case. At the end of the Japanese colonial period, he actively participated in various pro-Japanese organizations, including the Melting Federation and Daehwasuk. As the principal of Yeonhui Technical School, he participated in organizations formed to support the wartime system, including the National Spirit Mobilization Chosun Federation, the National Federation of Korean Federations, and the Joseon Imjeonbo National Foundation.

Lee Kwang-soo also served as the founder of the zodiac Society, which was organized by promoting the promotion of zodiacal thought.

a military season
In 1945, when Japan was defeated in the Pacific War and the U.S. military government began, he was appointed as an interpreter for John Haji, commander of the 24th U.S. Army Corps. Since then, he has been a powerful man behind the scenes of the U.S. military government.

In addition to the activities revealed to the outside world, such as leading the inauguration of the gubernatorial council after serving as the head of Pyeongannam-do, Yoon Chi-young was in charge of major transitional activities, such as stepping down as Rhee's chief of staff. On the other hand, he participated in the founding of the Democratic Party of Korea, which was formed on September 16.

On September 10, 1945, Cho Byung-ok and Yoon Bo-sun, who represented the Korean Democratic Party, met with the U.S. military and political ministers and the North Korean People's Republic of Korea was organized by a "Korean group that cooperated with Japan," and Yeo Un-hyung insisted that "they were well known to Koreans." On that very day, Lee Myo-mook became Ha-ji's personal interpreter. He told U.S. military officials at Myeongwolgwan that Yeo Un-hyung and Ahn Jae-hong are well-known pro-Japanese and that artificiality tends to be communist, and these remarks were highly trusted by the U.S. military government. Later, Lee Myo-mook served as a Korean secretary to the commander of the military government, John Haji.

Hajji and the U.S. military government had a negative view of the National Foundation Preparation Committee's after-effects of demanding cooperation between the left and right were dismissed and led to the establishment of a single government

The success of Cho Byung-ok, Jang Taek-sang, and Choi Kyung-jin in the police community also played a significant role in this period, as rumors circulated that they were related to Lee Myo-mook's influence.

On September 19, Choi Kyu-nam, Cho Eui-seol, and Kim Yoon-kyung met with the finance director of the U.S. Military Administration to strongly oppose the use of Yeonhui School as a U.S. Army Hospital or a judicial training center, and to take over the school immediately and negotiate the normal operation of Yeonhui School. When Rhee Syng-man returned to Korea in October 1945, he often visited Donamjang.

When the Joseon Basketball Association was revived in 1945, Lee Myo-mook was elected as the first president of the Basketball Association. In 1947, he served as vice president of the Yeonhui University Support Association, executive director of the Heunghan Foundation, and Olympic Committee of the Korea Sports Association, and as the first chairman of the Seoul Su-ryeob Association and vice president of the International Research Association.

On June 29, 1946, he was appointed to the Council of the National Unification Headquarters.

Just before the establishment of a single government
When it became inevitable to establish a single government, he supported the establishment of a conclusion In June 1948, there was a rumor of the formation of a second party, but he denied this fact.

First Republic
Around the time of the establishment of the first Republic in the U.S. military government, he was the vice president of the Yeonhui University Sponsors Association, executive director of the Heunghan Foundation, the Korea Sports Association, the first chairman of the Seoul Fishing Association, and vice chairman of the Korea Basketball Association.

In 1949, he served as the president of the Korean Association of the United Nations and the secretary of the Korean Committee of the United Nations, and on August 20, he was elected secretary-general of the National Progressive Strengthening Committee, From 1951 he was sent to London as the Special Envoy of the United Kingdom. In 1951, he attended the 6th United Nations General Assembly in Paris, France, along with Scene (chief), Lim Byung-jik, Jang Taek-sang, Jeon Kyu-hong, and Ahn Yeon-saeng as a Korean delegation. In 1952, at the funeral of King George VI of England, as a special envoy to the President of the Republic of Korea,

In May 1953, Shin Ik-hee and other Korean representatives attended the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II In particular, along with the Korean mission headed by National Assembly Speaker Shin Ik- hee, it achieved remarkable diplomatic achievements with the leaders of 16 warring nations, including Prime Minister Churchill.

In early June 1949, he tried to release Choi Neung-jin, who was imprisoned in prison, but failed. While staying in the United Kingdom and serving as the British Ambassador and Scandinavian Ambassador, on February 8, 1957, the couple went somewhere in Denmark and collided with a taxi in Copenhagen, but only slightly.

He died in England while serving as a British diplomat.

After death
In 2008, it was selected in the education/academic category among the list of prospective people to be included in the pro-Japanese life dictionary organized by the Institute for National Affairs. Yonsei University's student body, the Democratic Labor Party's student committee, announced the list of pro-Japanese groups for Yonsei University in 2005 It was also included in the list of 705 pro-Japanese anti-ethnic acts announced by the Pro-Japanese Anti-ethnic Acts Commission.

See more

 * Dea Hwa-suk
 * Korea Imjeonbo National Foundation
 * the U.S. military government

Reference

 * Lee Myo-mook - Korean Studies Center