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Choi Sang-don (May 8, 1869 – December 3, 1916) was a former official of the Korean Empire and served as a vice-chancellor of the Central Committee of the Japanese Government-General of Joseon during the Japanese colonial period.

Life
In 1895, he studied in Japan as a government-funded student of the Korean Empire. After three years of practical work in Japan's postal and railway services, he returned to Korea and worked as a railroad driver. In recognition of his service to the Japanese military during the Russo-Japanese War in 1908, he was awarded the 4th place of honor. Immediately after the signing of the annexation treaty between Korea and Japan in 1910, he was appointed to the vice president of the Central Committee and served until his death. In 1912, he was also awarded the Korea Merger Memorial Medal.

As a student studying in Japan, he seems to have been close to Japan from an early age. In 1905, the Japanese government gave him a certificate of honor, when Hirobumi Ito was shot dead by Ahn Jung-geun in 1909, he participated in a memorial service, and when Empress Shoken, wife of Emperor Meiji of Japan, died in 1914, he paid tribute on behalf of the Central Committee, along with Park Je-soon and Min Sang-ho.

The list of 708 pro-Japanese groups announced by the National Spirit-setting National Assembly in 2002, the list of prospective pro-Japanese biographies compiled by the National Institute for Human Rights in 2008, and the 106 pro-Japanese anti-national activities surveyed by the Committee on the Truth of General Ethnicity in 2006.

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 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office