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Hyeon Si-dal was a police officer during the Korean Empire and Japanese occupation.

Life
In 1908, at the end of the Korean Empire, Imsigando, a member of the Tonggambu, was dispatched to the Manchuria area as an inspector of the police.

Immediately after the annexation treaty was signed in 1910, he served as an interpreter for the dispatch of Gando under the Governor-General of Joseon for six years. During this period, in 1912, the Japanese government received the Korean Merger Memorial Medal in commemoration of the annexation of Korea. In 1916, he became a lieutenant and served for three years, and until 1924, he served as a lieutenant in the Japanese Consulate General of Gando.

Hyun worked as a police officer for the Department of General Affairs and the Governor-General, and was tasked with intelligence to spy on anti-Japanese forces in the Gando area. In the Independent Newspaper published in 1919, four Korean police officers in the Gando area were mentioned as "the best detective dogs," and Hyun Sidal was included here. In a communication sent by the Korean Independence Army, an armed independence movement organization, to Yanji, Hyun Si-dal was the first of the six to mention "the worst of the wicked who become the government official of the enemy and poison our great work."

As the atmosphere of the independence movement heightened with the March 1st Movement, there was also a fact that he participated in the conciliatory work against anti-Japanese forces by publishing an article against the independence movement in the Gando Local Journal. In this article, Hyun Si-dal argues that the anti-Japanese movement is harming Eastern peace by opposing neighboring countries, and that it should not be used by impure forces but first cultivate its skills under the protection of Japan.

Around this time, Bang Won-sung, an independence activist in the Gando area, persuaded Korean detectives and government officials to stop cooperation with the Japanese Empire. However, Bang Won-sung was arrested and sentenced to two and a half years in prison for threatening the incident.

The list of 195 pro-Japanese anti-ethnic activities announced by the Korea Pro-Japanese Anti-ethnic Behavior Commission in 2007 was included in the overseas category, the list of prospective pro-Japanese biographical dictionaries compiled by the National Institute in 2008, and the overseas category.

Reference

 * Bang Won-sung : Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs
 * Bang Won-sung : Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs