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Jeong Bong-si (June 5, 1855 – December 3, 1937) was an official of the Korean Empire and a Confucian figure during the Japanese colonial period. The pen name was Songni.

Life
In 1896, he worked as a bureaucrat of the Korean Empire, serving as a secretary of staff to Chuncheon Bu. He served as the Director of Internal Accounting in 1905, the Director of Internal Local Bureau and the Director of Chido Bureau in 1906, and became a member of the Central Committee of the Korean Empire in 1907.

In 1908, he also participated in social group activities as a local general secretary and council member at the Daedong Society, which has a strong pro-Japanese tendency. In 1909, he participated in a Japanese tour group hosted by the Gyeongseong Ilbo, an agency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, for political purposes and went to Japan. At the time of the signing of the Korea-Japan annexation treaty in 1910, he was in charge of the annexation of Kyujanggak. Jeong Bong-si was a scholar who was so knowledgeable that he participated in the National Treasure Box.

In 1912, he became a Gangwon-do instructor at Gyeonghakwon established by the Japanese Government-General of Korea as a successor to Sungkyunkwan. After that, he worked at Gyeonghakwon for a long time until his death in 1937, becoming a representative pro-Japanese figure in the field of study abroad. He served as a vice president of Gyeonghakwon in 1929 and as a great scholar of Gyeonghakwon and president of Myeongryun Academy in 1936.

In 1915, a poem was written and dedicated to praise the virtues of Emperor Taisho and pray for Mansumugang, and in 1916, when Emperor Showa was established as a prince, he wrote a poem comparing the prince to King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou. While serving as a high priest, he sympathized with the spiritual cultivation development movement that the Japanese Government-General of Korea mobilized religious figures such as Confucianism and Buddhism in the 1930s.

The Japanese government received the Korea Merger Memorial Medal in 1912 and the Showa Memorial Monument in 1928.

It was included in the list of prospective pro-Japanese biographical dictionaries released in 2008 for the compilation of the pro-Japanese biographical dictionary and in the religious section of the 195 pro-Japanese anti-national activities finally announced by the Korea Pro-Japanese Anti-National Action Committee in 2007.

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 * the Daedong Society
 * Gyeonghakwon