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Lee Taek-hyeon (1866 – May 25, 1929) was a governor of Wonsanbu, Hamgyeongnam-do, and served as a member of the Central Committee of the Japanese Government-General of Korea during the Japanese colonial period.

Life
In 1901, during the Korean Empire, he was in charge of the observation department in North Hamgyong Province, but his activities as a community leader of the Wonsan region are more prominent than his history as an official. In 1912, after the signing of the Korea-Japan annexation treaty, he was the auditor of Hamgyeong Agricultural and Industrial Bank and the president of Chuche Station, and served as an interim member of the Hamgyeongnam Regional Land Investigation Committee for three years from 1914.

Later, he served as a counselor at the Joseon Siksan Bank and was selected as the deputy governor of Wonsan in 1919, and after the March 1st Movement, when the Governor-General of Korea established the provincial council system as part of a conciliatory measure, he participated as a member of the Hamgyeongnam Council. He served as a member of the Central Council for six years from 1921. He was reappointed as a member of the provincial council during his tenure at the Central Committee, and he worked as a capitalist mainly in the financial industry, touching other business areas such as brewing and logistics.

It was included in both the list of 708 pro-Japanese groups announced in 2002 and the list of prospective pro-Japanese biographical dictionaries released in 2008 and the list of 195 pro-Japanese anti-national activities released by the Korea Anti-National Action Committee in 2007.

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 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office