User:Dckewon5131/하준석 (1898년)

Ha Joon-seok (28 April 1898 – 21 January 1976) was a South Korean businessman who had been active since the Japanese occupation. His hometown was Changnyeong-myeon, Changnyeong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do.

Life
Born into a wealthy family in Changnyeong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do, he studied in Japan and graduated from Waseda University. Starting with the maintenance of the Changnyeong area, he was appointed as a founding member of Seonman Pioneer in 1935, served as a director of the Joseon Social Work Association and a vice-chairman of the Defense Education Association, and served as a director of Donggwang Academy in Shenyang, Manchuria.

It is included as one of the 353 Korean contributors in the "Joseon Meritorious Self-Confession" compiled by the Governor-General in 1935. At that time, the position was the president of Yeongnam Automobile Co., Ltd. In 1938, he was a member of the North Korean delegation and commissioned the Japanese army on the Chinese front, and served as a member of the Central Committee of the Korean Government-General from June 1939 to June 1942.

Since 1934, he has also been active in pro-Japanese organizations, including serving as a director of the commercial society organized by Choe Rin's Cheondogyo sect. In 1938, he participated in the National Spirit Mobilization Joseon Federation and participated in the National Federation of Korean Residents (1940) and the Joseon Imjeonbo National Foundation (1941), and attended lectures and discussions to promote conscription and volunteer soldiers.

After Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule, he served as a director of the Korean Equestrian Association's former Joseon Equestrian Association, and worked with financier Min Kyu-sik in right-wing political activities in support of Rhee Syng-man In 1949, he was arrested and tried by the Special Investigation Committee on Anti-National Acts, but was released.

It was included in the list of 708 pro-Japanese groups announced in 2002 and the list of prospective pro-Japanese dictionaries compiled by the National Research Institute for Human Rights in 2008. It was also included in the list of 705 pro-Japanese anti-ethnic acts announced by the Committee on the Truth and Reconciliation of Anti-ethnic Acts in 2009.

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 * the Joseon Imjeonbo National Foundation