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Lee Byung-sik (November 17, 1892) was a former police officer during the Japanese colonial period.

Life
His hometown was Seongjin-gun, North Hamgyong Province. In March 1915, when he was in his early 20s, he was appointed as a police officer of the Japanese Government-General of Korea. The following year, he was promoted to sergeant.

In 1922, he was promoted to Gyeongbubo in Hamgyeongbuk-do and worked at Gilju Police Station in Gilju-gun, Hambuk-do. In 1929, he was promoted to the police department and was assigned to the security department of the Hamgyeongbuk-do Police Department. The security department is a department that deals with ideological crimes such as anti-Japanese movement incidents.

After that, he returned to the security department of the North Hambuk Police Department through the Cheongjin Police Station and the Unggi Police Station in Unggi-gun. While serving as a security officer, he was appointed as a bureaucrat at the end of the Japanese colonial period during the Pacific War and was appointed as the county governor of Buryeong-gun, North Hamgyong Province.

It is included in the list of commendations awarded by the Governor-General in 1935 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the city administration when he served as the chief of the Unggi Police Station.

In 1928, when he worked at Gilju Police Station, he was awarded the Showa Daeri Memorial Medal

As of 1943, when he was a deputy governor, he was ordained twice as a chief officer, and was ranked 7th in the rank of the 7th rank.

It was included in the list of officials and police in the National Institute of Humanities' dictionary released in 2008, and was also included in the list of 705 pro-Japanese anti-national activities released by the pro-Japanese anti-national activities committee.

Reference

 * Lee Byung-sik - National History Compilation Committee