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Choi Tak (born September 17, 1892) served as a police officer and official during the Japanese occupation.

Life
He was from Geumgu-myeon, Gimje-gun, Jeollabuk-do. He went to Sinmyeong School in Geumgu-myeon and graduated from Gyeongseong Training School in 1916. Baek Gwansu is a fellow student at Kyungsung Training School.

After graduating from Gyeongseong Law School, he initially worked as a clerk in Seosan-gun and Seocheon-gun, Chungcheongnam-do. Later, in 1918, he was appointed as a police officer of the Joseon Governor-General, trained at the Gyeongseong Landscape Practice Center, and became a police officer. After a while in the judicial world of Mokpo Police Station, he worked at the High Police Department of the Police Bureau. The main mission of the high official was to detect and suppress information on independence movements such as civil service inspections.

Choi Tak, who has worked in the high school department for more than 10 years, was promoted to the Governor-General of Joseon in 1931 and dispatched to Hamgyeongnam-do, and served as the head of the security department of the Hamnam Police Department from 1932. In 1936, he changed to a bureaucrat and was appointed as deputy consul of the Japanese Consulate General in Bongcheon (currently Shenyang), and later became the county heads of Yeoncheon-gun and Goyang-gun, Gyeonggi-do. In 1943, he was appointed to the head of Seodaemun-gu as a Gyeongseong director and received liberation while serving.

Immediately after liberation, he served as the head of Jongno-gu District Office under the U.S. military government, but resigned in November of that year. Choi Tak, who has a long police history in the high school and security departments, was widely regarded as a pro-Japanese group, and was arrested and investigated by Mapo Prison the following year after the Anti-National Act was enacted in 1948.

The Anti-Civilian Special Committee mainly questioned the behavior of serving in the police bureau. At the time when Choi Tak worked in the high school department of the police bureau, the national movement to cooperate with the left and right, including the new society, was active, and Choi Tak was suspected of detecting ideological trends while being close to leaders such as Song Jin-woo, Kim Byung-ro, Choi Rin, and Kim Cheol-soo. Other charges included establishing an oath tower to use Japanese while serving in Yeoncheon County, and taking the lead in conscription and conscription to support the Pacific War as Seodaemun Stadium.

As a result of the investigation, Choi Tak's charges were all recognized, and the Anti-Civilian Special Committee expressed its opinion that it was reasonable to indict him as an anti-civilian, but at this time, it was already obstructed and resulted in a non-prosecution. The reason for the non-prosecution was that he used his position to help his acquaintances working in the independence movement while working in the high school, and all he did while working as a bureaucrat was not arbitrary or malicious, but just followed his instructions.

After death
It was selected in the bureaucracy, police, and overseas categories of the 708-member pro-Japanese group list announced in 2002 and the list of prospective Japanese life dictionaries released by the Institute for National Affairs released in 2005. It was also included in the list of 705 pro-Japanese anti-ethnic acts announced by the Pro-Japanese Anti-ethnic Acts Commission.