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Hyun Young-seop (1907~?) was a pro-Japanese theorist during the Japanese colonial period, and his real name is Hyun Young-nam, and his domicile was Jangsa-dong, Gyeongseongbu.

Life
He was the son of Hyun-heon, a former educator and a bureaucrat of the Joseon Governor-General and a member of the Central Committee of the Joseon Governor-General, and a scholar who graduated from Gyeongseong Jeil High School and Gyeongseong Imperial University. After graduating from Kyungsung Jeil High School, and he has a history of labor movements in Kyoto, Japan

After graduating from college, he joined the South China Youth League in Shanghai. It is said that he joined the Namhwa Youth League, where Baek Jeong-ki and others were active, along with the anarchist activist Won Sim-chang, and moved to Japan under the direction of this organization to engage in an anarchist movement.

However, in the mid-1930s, he was briefly imprisoned for anarchist movements and released from prison, and then transformed into an extreme pro-Japanese group, insisting that the Korean language be completely abolished for the sake of the internal line. The theory of complete abolition of the Korean language claimed by the Korean people was noticed by the Japanese, and it was used by the pro-Japanese organization Nokgi Federation to publish an editorial claiming this logic in Nokgi, the organization of the Nokgi Federation.

After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937, he participated in lectures to support the war and actively promoted the realization of public rights in Greater East Asia by criticizing China or completely democratization.

After 1937, he published a number of articles in magazines such as Samcheon-ri, Jo Gwang, and Chong Dong-won calling for cooperation in the colonial rule of Japan.

In particular, the editorial book "The Way Koreans Should Go" published in 1938 and the editorial book "The Beginning of New Joseon" published in 1939 were the crystals of this logic.

While praising Japanese culture and imperialism, Hyun Young-seop insisted that all lifestyles, including language and name, should be the same as Japan to implement the extension. Through vitriol comparing nationalists to the Black Death (Fest), intellectuals were asked to love Japan sincerely.

In 1938, it was injected by the National Spirit Mobilization Federation of Korea, and in 1940, it developed the spirit of Hwangdo.

He became a director of Naeseon All-In-One Angel, a pro-Japanese publisher and organization for the purpose of practicing marriage, and continued to support the war through lectures until the end of the Pacific War.

In July 1940, he claimed to emulate the posthumous teachings of Admiral Lee In-seok in an article titled "Different from the Foreign Legion" published in the magazine Samcheon-ri, and praised the conscription system through an article titled "Day of History Creation" published in the Japanese Government-General's organ newspaper "Maeil Sinbo" on August 2, 1943. After Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule, he fled to Japan and worked at the U.S. Embassy in Japan, and was sent without detention by the Special Investigation Committee on Anti-National Acts in August 1949.

After death
It was included in both the list of 708 pro-Japanese groups announced in 2002 and the list of prospective pro-Japanese biographical dictionaries compiled by the National Research Institute for Human Rights in order to be included in the pro-Japanese biographical dictionary. It was also included in the list of 705 pro-Japanese anti-ethnic acts announced by the Pro-Japanese Anti-ethnic Acts Commission.

Evaluation
Hyun Young-seop's pro-Japanese activities are characterized by being radical, militant and thorough. His goal was to "Japanese over Japanese," and his ideal was to "come from a completely Japanese Korean." For this reason, Koreans were criticized for being "a real traitor who sold his soul to Japan," and Japanese people were told, "I want to cover my eyes."

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 * Hyun-heon
 * Nokgi Federation