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Lee Sang-ki (1902 – ?) was a Korean legal professional during the Japanese colonial period.

Life
Born in Gyeongsangnam-do, he passed the Japanese High Civil Service Examination Judicial Department. He started working as a judicial officer at the Gyeongseong District Court and became a judge of the Gyeongseong District Court in 1931, and later served as a judge belonging to the Joseon Governor-General until the end of the Japanese colonial period.

After serving as a judge of Gyeongseong Boksim Court and as a judge of Gyeongseong District Court, he served as a judge of Daegu Boksim Court from 1942. As of 1935, only three Korean judges were Kim Young-hwan, Kim Se-wan, and Lee Sang-ki. In addition, the appointment of Lee Sang-ki as the judge of Gyeongseong District Court in 1938 was the first Korean judge during the Japanese colonial period.

He was appointed to the Supreme Court shortly after the end of the Pacific War and the start of the U.S. military administration In November 1945, he was appointed as the head of the Legal Reporting Committee of the U.S. Military Government Office and represented the Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea. He was in charge of the assassination of Song Jin-woo and inspected the U.S. legal system, and inspected the U.S. legal system.

However, after the establishment of the First Republic, the Anti-National Act was enacted in 1948, and the career of judges during the Japanese colonial period became a problem. As Lee Sang-ki stepped down from his position as a Supreme Court justice, he said he was conscientiously in charge of civil cases, and that he was demoted to be a judge of the Daegu Rehabilitation Court in 1942, expressing his feelings of unfairness.

However, emphasizing compliance with the spirit of compliance, he resigned from his position as a Supreme Court justice and opened a lawyer in accordance with Article 5 of the Anti-Civil Law. He defended Ahn Doo-hee, who was arrested as an assassin in the 1949 assassination of Kim Gu.

Among the 708 pro-Japanese groups announced in 2002, it was included in both the judge section and the judicial section among the prospective list of pro-Japanese life dictionaries announced by the National Research Institute in 2008.

Reference

 * Lee Sang-ki - National History Compilation Committee