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Han Jong-gun (December 18, 1902 – July 28, 1986) was a Korean police officer, politician, and legal officer during the Japanese colonial period. His domicile was Cheongju, his pen name was Ugye, and his hometown was Haman-myeon, Haman-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do.

Life
He participated in the March 1st Movement in 1919 while attending the second grade of Jungang Middle School in Gyeongseongbu and was later arrested on charges of violating the Security Law. On November 6, 1919, he was released from prison after being sentenced to six months in prison and three years of probation by the Gyeongseong District Court. He graduated from Kanazawa 4th High School in Japan and Kyoto Imperial University's Faculty of Law, and passed the Japanese High Civil Service Examination Law Department in 1932 and the Senior Civil Service Examination Administration Department in 1933.

From 1930 to 1932, he worked in the tax department of the Ministry of Finance of Gyeonggi-do, and in 1933, he worked in the industrial and local departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Pyeongan-nam. On November 27, 1934, he was appointed a police officer of the Japanese Government-General of Korea, and from 1935 to 1936, he worked as a police officer at the police department and the police academy of the Jeollabuk-do Police Department. On October 16, 1936, he was appointed as the head of the security department of the Hwanghae-do Police Department and a member of the Police and Police Disciplinary Committee, and on March 26, 1938, he was appointed as an executive secretary of the Hwanghae-do Air Defense Committee.

He focused on organizing and strengthening vigilante groups in Hwanghae-do, while arresting a total of 62 cases of economic violations during the Sino-Japanese War while serving as a security chief and police chief of the Hwanghae-do Police Department. It is said that the vigilante group formed in Hwanghae-do at the time was a large scale with a total of 25,656 dan and a total of 196,122 members. On April 29, 1940, he was awarded a certificate of merit in recognition of his active cooperation in the Sino-Japanese War, and on March 18, 1944, he received a sixth-grade Seobo award from the Japanese government.

From March 31, 1941 to May 30, 1941, he served as the chief of the security department of the South Pyongan Province Police Department, the chief inspector of the patrol division, and the preliminary member of the provincial disciplinary committee.

From May 31, 1941 to September 29, 1943, he served as secretary general of the Daegu Tax Supervisory Bureau (appointed on April 31, 1941), a member of the Retail and Income Review Committee (appointed on April 12, 1943), and a director of the Pyongyang Tax Supervisory Bureau (appointed on September 30, 1943).

On December 1, 1943, he was appointed as the Minister of Finance of Pyeonganbuk-do, and on December 9, 1943, he was appointed as a supervisor of the Pyeonganbuk branch of the Federation of Korean Financial Associations. He was appointed as a member of the Pyeonganbuk Financial Committee on January 4, 1944, and served as a member of the Pyeonganbuk Retail and Income Review Committee (appointed on May 23, 1944), secretary of the emergency reinforcement Gyeongseong Regional Liaison Department (appointed on December 18, 1944), and an investigator of wartime non-life insurance (appointed on February 4, 1945).

Since Korea's liberation from Japan's colonial rule, he has served as the deputy chief of the U.S. military government, the chief of the Jeonbuk National Police Agency, the deputy director of the police department, and the fifth member of the National Assembly (Haman-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do) from July 29, 1960 to May 16, 1961. From 1964 to 1967, he served as an auditor of the Korean Board of Audit and Inspection and later as a lawyer.

Pro-Japanese group It was included in the 708-member list of the Korean Government-General of Korea and the 705-member list of pro-Japanese biographical dictionaries of the Institute for Ethnic Affairs, the police and bureaucracy, and the 705-member list of pro-Japanese anti-national activities.

Reference

 * Han Jong-gun - Korean Constitutional Association