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Choi Yeon-guk (February 24, 1886 – February 26, 1951) was a bureaucrat and entrepreneur during the Japanese colonial period, whose pen name was Namju, and his domicile was Saknyeong, and his hometown was Sacheon-myeon, Sacheon-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do.

Life
He was born in Sacheon, South Gyeongsang Province. Born into a powerful landlord family in Sacheon, he went through important positions in the political and financial circles during the Japanese colonial period, starting with the junior official of the royal family in 1903.

He also worked in the local educational community, including the principal of Myeongdal Common School (currently Sacheon Elementary School) (1905) and the promoter of the establishment of ordinary schools such as Ilshin (1920). Private Ilshin High School, which promoted the establishment in the local community, was not established, and a public Jinju High School was established on the site.

After emerging as a representative pro-Japanese group in the Sacheon area, he served as a member of the Central Committee of the Japanese Government-General of Korea for 11 years from 1933, and joined the Joseon Imjeonbo Corps in 1941 and the National Alliance in 1944 to actively engage in pro-Japanese activities.

After liberation, it was investigated by the Special Investigation Committee on Anti-National Behavior, but was released when the Special Committee on Anti-People was disbanded.

He was buried in Sacheon's Danjongtaesilji (the place where Danjong's ​navel cord was buried), which was damaged by the Japanese, and his descendants wrote the tomb of the youngest country here.

It was selected from the list of 708 pro-Japanese groups announced in 2002 and the list of prospective pro-Japanese biographical dictionaries compiled by the Institute for Ethnic Affairs in 2008, and was also included in the list of 705 pro-Japanese anti-national activities released by the Committee on the Truth of Anti-Japanese Act in 2009.

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 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office
 * the Joseon Imjeonbo Corps