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Choi Seok-hyun (17 August 1893 – 9 April 1956) was a police officer and official during the Japanese occupation, his hometown was Hoengjeong, Daegu-bu, Gyeongsangbuk-do, and he was from Socheon-myeon, Bonghwa-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do.

Life
In June 1915, he served as an assistant to the military police of the Yeongju Military Police Squad, and in August 1919, he was appointed as a inspector of the Joseon Governor-General. Afterwards, he served as a high-ranking detective for a long time, arresting, torturing, and suppressing independence activists. He is known to have led the investigation into torture since the early 1920s when he began working as a police officer, and when independence activist Kim Chang-sook was arrested in Shanghai and sent to Korea in 1927, he tortured her with his subordinates, which later became crippled.

The incident that made Choi Seok-hyun famous nationwide was the 1927 bombing of the Daegu branch of the Chosun Bank, which caught and tortured a large number of independence activists in Yeongnam, and after years of investigation and persistent pursuit, Jang Jin-hong was arrested and killed himself. When he went to Japan to catch Jang Jin-hong, he was enthusiastic enough to pray for his arrest at a local temple to catch "Hung Han" quickly.

After becoming a police inspector at Yeongju Police Station due to reorganization in 1919, he was promoted to the police rank in 1940, including the head of the police department in 1925 and the head of the high police department of the Gyeongsangbuk-do Police Department. In July 1945, just before liberation, he was appointed as the head of Yeongwol-gun, Gangwon-do.

In 1949, when the Special Investigation Committee on Anti-National Acts was formed and began its activities, a special essay on Choi Seok-hyun, a "vampire of independence fighters," who persistently harassed independence activists in newspapers across the country, including the Yeongnam region, and became a sexual torture. The Anti-People's Special Committee also attracted a lot of attention, such as being dispatched to Bonghwa, Choi Seok-hyun's hometown for arrest, but immediately fled and the whereabouts became unknown, and eventually was not arrested.

It was included in the list of 708 pro-Japanese groups announced by the National Assembly to establish national spirit in February 2002, and was included in the bureaucracy and police section in the list of prospective Japanese life dictionaries compiled by the Institute for National Affairs in 2008. It was also included in the list of 705 pro-Japanese anti-ethnic acts announced by the Pro-Japanese Anti-ethnic Acts Commission.