User:Dckewon5131/최승렬 (1891년)

Choi Seung-ryeol (May 15, 1891 – October 31, 1971) was a bureaucrat and businessman during the Japanese occupation.

Life
In March 1914, he graduated from Gyeongseong High School and served as an apprentice to a judge in Jeonju-gun, Jeollabuk-do, in 1916. He served as secretary of Jeonju-gun, Jeollabuk-do from 1917 to 1919, and visited Manchuria and Mongolia in 1922.

In 1925, he served as a director of Ilsam Commercial Association and a vice-chairman of the Jeollabuk-do Pregnant Association, and in 1926, he served as a member of the Jeonbuk Girls' High School's donation committee, a preparatory member of the Jeonju Symphony Association, and a deputy head of Jeonju-myeon, Jeonju-gun, Jeollabuk-do. He served as vice chairman of the Jeonbuk Livestock Cooperative Association in 1927 and as a director of Jeonbuk Fertilizer Co., Ltd. from December 1927 to 1931.

From December 1929 to May 1931, he served as a member of the Jeonju-myeon Council in Jeonju-gun, Jeollabuk-do (byungwol, after 1931, Jeonju-eup Council) and as president of the Jeonbuk Automobile Association from 1930 to 1931. He served as the president of Daejeon Commercial Co., Ltd. (1931–1942), the auditor of Chosun Transportation Co., Ltd. (August 1934–1937), and the president of Republican Automobile Transport Co., Ltd. (1935–1942) and the promoter and transportation department of Jeonju Chamber of Commerce from September 1935 to 1936.

From November 1935 to 1939, he served as a vice-member of Jeonju, and from 1936 to 1942, he served as president and auditor of Joseon Paper Industry Co., Ltd. He served as an auditor of Jeonbuk Body Production (1937) and Chosun Pharmaceutical Company (1937-1939), Seonman Transportation Audit (1939), Jeonbuk Sinbosa Auditor (June 1941), and Geumsan Transportation Auditor (1942), and served as an instructor of the Jeonju General Support Council in 1938.

In 1941, he served as a member of the Jeonbuk Craft Promotion Association (January 1941), a member of the Jeonbuk Preparation Committee of the Heung-Abo National Foundation (August 1941), and a member of the Chosun Imbo National Foundation (August 1941), and served as a member of the Jeonbuk Provincial Council from May 1941 to Korea's liberation in 1945.

On September 29, 1943, he received compensation from the Japanese government for donating KRW 10,000 for the X-ray equipment for collective examination in Jeollabuk-do, and served as a director of the National Federation of Korean Industries in 1944. In September 1944, he served as a founding member of the Jeollabuk-do Commercial and Economic Association, and served as a member of the Central Committee of the Governor-General of Joseon from June 1945 to August 1945 until liberation.

pro-Japanese group It was included in the 708-member Central Committee and others, and in the Central Committee and Economy of the National Research Institute's Pro-Japanese Dictionary of Life, and in the 705-member Pro-Japanese Anti-National Act.