User:Dckewon5131/이영찬 (1896년)

Lee Young-chan (July 16, 1896 – May 5, 1960) was an entrepreneur during the Japanese colonial period and served as a member of the Central Council of the Japanese Government-General of Joseon.

Life
He is from Sunseong-gun, North Pyongan Province. He graduated from Shinseong School, a private school affiliated with Christianity in Sunseong, and built a great wealth from his hometown, Sunseong, to the mining industry.

Songlimgeumungwang, the owner of the mine, operated several businesses at the same time, and ran a project to turn Donglim Falls, a nearby tourist attraction, into an amusement park, making it a rare opportunity at that time.

He was selected as a member of the Central Council after serving as a member of the Suncheon-eup Association and a member of the Suncheon-gun Agricultural Association.

At the end of the Japanese colonial period, there was a track record of cooperating with the war system. He participated in the Heung-Abo Foundation and the Joseon Imjeonbo Foundation, and served as a director of Dongyang Jigwang.

He was serving as a member of the Central Council until the end of the Pacific War in 1945. After the establishment of the First Republic, he was arrested by the Anti-People's Special Committee under the Act on the Punishment of Anti-National Acts and received a trial, But, there is no record of the Anti-Communist Special Committee being dismantled under external pressure and punished.

Among the 708 pro-Japanese groups announced in 2002, it was included in the Central Garden category, and was also included in the Central Garden category of the list of prospective Japanese life dictionaries compiled by the National Research Institute in 2008. It was also included in the list of 705 pro-Japanese anti-ethnic acts announced by the Committee on the Truth and Reconciliation of Anti-ethnic Acts in 2009.

See more

 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office
 * Dongyang Jigwang

Reference

 * Lee Young-chan - National History Compilation Committee