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Cho Jin-tae (June 6, 1853 – December 17, 1933) was a financier and businessman who served as a founding member of Dongyang Cheoksik Co., Ltd. and Chosun Siksan Bank. Along with Baek Wan-hyuk and Cho Byung-taek, they were the three major merchants of the economic world during the late Joseon Dynasty and the Japanese colonial period.

Life
In 1875, he passed the military service department and served as a military officer. After retiring in 1895, he started working in the business world by establishing a military cladding company, using his career as a former official and close friendship with the imperial family of the Korean Empire. This is similar to the history of Baek Wan-hyuk, a successful businessman from the same military. In particular, Cho Jin-tae was called the right-hand man of Cho Jung-eung, a pro-Japanese powerhouse, and later took the lead in the reorganization and control of the Joseon business community by the Japanese.

He served as a shareholder, clerk, auditor, and director of Korea Cheonil Bank for 12 years from 1900, and established the Gyeongseong Commercial Chamber as a promoter and chairman in 1905. He became a member of the establishment of Hansung Agricultural and Industrial Bank in 1906, became an auditor of Hansung Bank in 1908, and served as a member and auditor of the establishment of Dongyang Cheoksik Co., Ltd.

When Hirobumi Ito was killed by Ahn Jung-geun in 1909, he participated in the funeral as a representative of the Gyeongseong Chamber of Commerce. When Emperor Meiji died in 1912, he visited Japan with Yoo Gil-joon and Baek Wan-hyuk as representatives of the Gyeongseong Department's condolences, and made a certificate and distributed it free of charge.

Even after the signing of the Korea-Japan annexation treaty, he continued to be called a business tycoon, and in 1916, he participated in the Daejeong Unemployment Friendship Association as a promoter, and social group activities in pro-Japanese organizations were also active. In 1918, he served as a member of the establishment and counselor of the Joseon Siksan Bank, and in 1921, he became a member of the Industrial Investigation Committee affiliated with the Governor-General of Joseon. Both institutions played an important role in the establishment of the colonial economic system and the implementation of economic policies by the Governor-General of Joseon. In recognition of these achievements, the Japanese government has received several Hunpo awards from the Japanese government, including the Korea Merger Memorial Medal, Hun 6th, Hun 5th, and Hun 4th. In 1927, he was appointed as a councillor of the Central Committee of the Japanese Government-General of Korea.

In 1920, the first president of Chosun Ilbo. He died in 1933 after active activities until the end of his life as a counselor to Dongminhoe in 1924, a director of Chosun Railway Co., a major shareholder of Chosun Co., Ltd. in 1927, a council member of the Chosun Expo, a promoter of Chosun Savings Bank, and a major shareholder of Yeongheung Coal Mine. In 1935, shortly after his death, the "Chosun Meritorious Self-Confession," compiled by the Governor-General, is included as one of 353 Korean meritorious people.

After death
In 2002, the pro-Japanese group 708 list was published by the National Institute for Ethnic Affairs in 2008

It was selected as a list of prospective pro-Japanese dictionaries to be included in the pro-Japanese noun dictionary, and was also included in the 106 pro-Japanese anti-national acts announced by the pro-Japanese anti-national acts committee in 2006. The Pro-Japanese Anti-ethnic Activist Property Investigation Committee decided to attribute 70,000 square meters of 20 lots of land in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, which he owned.

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 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office
 * Dongyang Cheoksik Co., Ltd
 * Chosun Siksan Bank
 * Daejeong Unemployment Friendship Association