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Choi Jun-jip (October 25, 1893 – June 4, 1970) was a local community leader of Gangwon-do during the Japanese colonial period and served as a member of the Central Committee of the Japanese Government-General of Korea. His hometown was Gangneung-eup, Gangneung-gun, Gangwon-do.

Life
Originally, he was a rich man in the Gangneung area, but also entered local politics as a provincial councilor in Gangwon-do. In 1936, he was appointed as the chief councilor of the Central Committee, and in 1941, he was reappointed as the chief councilor. At this time, he was the head of the Gangneung Joseon Foundation. He also served as the head of the Gangwon-do Provincial Government, a pro-Japanese organization Heunga Bogukdan formed by Yoon Chi-ho in 1941.

It is a famous anecdote that he bought a plane to Japan during his Japanese colonial era days as a rich man in pro-Japanese group.Even now, airplanes during the Japanese colonial period at that time are expensive. In 1935, it was included as one of the 353 Korean meritorious people in the Joseon Meritorious Self-Defense Compilation compiled by the Governor-General. It was reported in the Maeil Sinbo at the time that he canceled his 60th birthday party and paid 1,000 won as a defense contribution immediately after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937, and there is a record that he was one of about 300 Koreans invited by Japan to the 2600th anniversary celebration in 1940.

The list of 708 pro-Japanese groups announced in 2002 was selected for the Central Committee and two other fields, and the list of prospective Japanese biographical dictionaries released in 2008 by the Institute for Ethnic Affairs, it is also included in the list of 705 pro-Japanese anti-national activities released by the Committee on the Truth of Pro-Japanese Anti-National Activities in 2009.

Choi Don-woong, a politician who served as a member of the South Korean National Assembly, is the son of Choi Jun-jip.

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 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office
 * Heunga Bogukdan