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Hong Jong-eok (November 12, 1850 – October 22, 1919) was a lawyer who participated in the trial of the righteous army at the end of the Korean Empire and served as a minister of the Central Committee of the Japanese Government during the Japanese colonial period. Thehometown was Yeomdong, Jangtongbang, Jungseo, Gyeongseongbu.

Life
Starting with Hong Mun-gwan's vice-principal in 1887, he worked for many years in Saganwon, Sahunbu, and Hong Mun-gwan, and began working in judicial institutions when he was appointed to the Beopbuamun Council in 1894. He served as a judge of the High Court in 1895, and as a judge of the Hanseong Court the following year, and served as a prosecutor of the Pyeongriwon several times from 1902.

In 1906, he resigned from his official post, and in 1907, he was reappointed as the prosecutor and presiding judge of Pyeongriwon to take charge of the trial of the righteous army. After the annexation treaty was signed in 1910, he was appointed to the post of Chungchukwon, which was established as an advisory institution to the Japanese Government, and received the Korea Merger Memorial Medal in 1912 and the Daisho Daerye Memorial Medal in 1915.

a trial for the righteous army
Hong Jong-eok participated in a total of 28 righteous army trials as the presiding judge of Pyeongriwon. Among them, a sentence of imprisonment or more than five years of type was sentenced, and the main judgment given by the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs to the relevant righteous army commander is as follows. After that, he moved to the Supreme Prosecutors' Office and participated in a total of 15 righteous army trials. The trials in which the medium-sized sentence has been confirmed are as follows.

After death
It was included in both the list of 708 pro-Japanese groups announced in 2002 and the list of prospective candidates for the pro-Japanese life dictionary released in 2008. The list of 106 pro-Japanese anti-ethnic acts announced by the Pro-Japanese Anti-ethnic Act 2006 also includes the activities of suppressing the righteous army protest as the presiding judge of the righteous army trial.

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 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office