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Heo Jin (22 July 1853 – 11 December 1932) was a military officer of the late Joseon Dynasty. During the Japanese colonial period, he served as vice-chancellor of the Central Committee of the Japanese Government-General of Korea. The domicile was Yangcheon.

Life
In 1868, he passed the martial arts department at the age of his mid-10s and went to government posts. He served as governor of Yangwon-gun, Pyeongannam-do in 1875, and as governor of Haenam-gun, Jeollanam-do in 1878. After that, he went through local governments such as Gyeonggi-do and Pyeongannam-do.

In 1886, he was appointed as a commander of the Jeolla Provincial Guard, and held important positions that could be rough as a military officer, such as a propaganda officer, and Lieutenant General Sun Moo-young. In 1895, after going through the Hamgyeongnamdo Byeongmajeoldosa Temple, Hamheungbu, and Jinjubu Observatory, Agwanpacheon (Gojong's internal exile to the Russian legation) Stream occurred while at the Gyeongmusa, and was dismissed with the fall of the Kim Hong-jip's. In 1898, he returned to his official post as a member of the Korean Empire's Central Garden.

Starting with serving as a councilor of the Daedong Society, a Confucian group, in 1907, he began social activities. At this time, as Japan's power became already strong, the signing of the Korea-Japan merger treaty became visible. Heo Jin served as Chan Mu-won of the Kihoheung Society, a member of the Korean Association, and a chairman of the National Seolhoe in turn. Among them, the National Assembly, where Heo Jin took office as chairman after the private institute, was established under the control of Lee Wan-yong and engaged in competitive activities with Iljinhoe, and on the outside, it put forward "the theory of early annexation." Meanwhile, there is a record that when Hirobumi Ito was killed by Ahn Jung-geun in 1909, Heo Jin lamented the loss of an Asian hero.

When the annexation of Korea and Japan was completed in 1910, he was appointed as a vice-chancellor of the Central Committee established by the Governor-General of Joseon as an advisory institution, and served until 1921. During this period, he visited Japan as a member of the Joseon noble tourism group, received the hospitality of Emperor Meiji, and visited Ito's grave. Heo Jin was not given the title of a Korean noble, but he was a senior official of the Korean Empire and could be included in the 64-member Korean noble tourism group. In 1912 and 1915, he received the Korean Merger and Daisho Daerye Memorial, which were awarded by the Japanese government, respectively.

It was selected on both the list of 708 pro-Japanese groups announced in 2002 and the list of prospective pro-Japanese biographical dictionaries compiled by the National Institute of Korean Studies in 2008, and on the list of 195 pro-Japanese anti-national activities announced by the Korea Committee in 2007.

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 * Gojong's internal exile to the Russian legation
 * the Daedong Society
 * the National Assembly
 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office