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Cho Byung-gun (November 5, 1853 – January 31, 1924) was a bureaucrat of the Korean Empire and served as a councillor of the Central Committee of the Japanese Government-General of Joseon during the Japanese colonial period. The domicile was Pungyang, the Courtesy name wss Heejung, and the pen name was Gyeonsan.

Life
After passing the civil service examination in 1880, he served as a reference officer for the Department of Education, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, starting with Seungjeongwon and Hongmungwan. In 1908, he entered Kyujanggak Bujehak.

He served as a basic member and a councilor at the Daedong Society in 1907, and worked for pro-Japanese social organizations even before the signing of the Korea-Japan annexation treaty. In 1910, when the Joseon Governor-General was established due to the annexation of Korea and Japan, it entered the Central Garden, which was newly established as an advisory institution to the Governor-General. When the Central Center was reorganized in 1921, it became the chief councilor, and until his death in 1924, the total working period of the Central Center was about 14 years.

In 1914, he donated two won to the Gyeongseong Military Support Association, which sponsors the Japanese military who participated in World War I, and when the Joseon Product Co-operation Association was held in 1915 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the annexation of Korea and Japan, he also contributed 10 won. In 1916, when the Japanese colonial government carried out a peninsula history compilation project with the aim of fostering imperial citizens, it was appointed as a chief investigator. In 1920, he was a lecturer at the newly launched Confucian-affiliated pro-Japanese organization Daedongmunhoe in connection with cultural rule after the March 1st Movement.

One of the medals received from the Japanese government was the Korean Merger Medal (1912). When Cho Byung-gun was killed in 1924, Japan immediately awarded him the post of chief executive officer and was awarded the fifth place in the government.

It was selected on both the list of 708 pro-Japanese groups announced in 2002 and the list of prospective candidates to be included in the pro-Japanese real name dictionary of the National Research Institute released in 2008. In 2007, it was also included in the list of 195 pro-Japanese anti-national acts announced by the Korean Committee on the Truth and Reconciliation of Pro-Japanese Anti-National Acts.

Family

 * Grandfather: Jo Si-soon - The stepfather of Jo Poong-jin
 * Great-grandfather: Jo Poong-jin - the stepfather of Jo Un-jeok
 * StepFather: Jo Un-jeok - Jo Seok-young's stepather


 * Father-in-law: Jo Si-joon
 * Grandmother: Bannam Park, the daughter of Park Sa-hae
 * Grandfather: Jo Gye-jin
 * Grandmother: Youngil Jeong, daughter of Jeong Ho-in
 * Grandfather: Cho Woon-seop
 * Grandmother: Cheongsong Shim, daughter of Shim Huang
 * Father: Cho Seok-young
 * Mother: Onyang Jeong, daughter of Jeong Heung-kyo
 * Brother: Cho Byung-eok


 * Wife: Park, uncle Bannam, daughter of Park Je-moon
 * First Daughter: Jo Dol-yong - Married to Lee Dong-gu of Hansan Lee Clan
 * Stepson: Cho Myoung-ha - real father is younger brother Cho Byung-eok

See more

 * Daedong Society
 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office
 * Daedong Samunhoe