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Hong Chi-up (born November 1890) was a Japanese colonial doctor and official, whose hometown was Cheonnam-dong, Seoncheon-eup, Pyeonganbuk-do.

Life
He is from Suncheon, North Pyongan Province. In 1914, he graduated from the Joseon Governor-General's School under the Governor-General of Joseon and became a doctor. Immediately after graduation, he was appointed as an assistant to the Governor-General of Joseon.

A year later, in 1915, he resigned as an assistant to the Governor-General and went back to his hometown to open a hospital in Seoncheon-eup. He served as the director of Inje Hospital in Seoncheon-eup for a long time, and also served as a public doctor in Pyeonganbuk-do. Inje Hospital was originally founded by independence activist Joo Hyeon-gyu from Severance School, but Joo Hyeon-gyu was imprisoned in the 105-member case and later exiled to Shanghai, and was taken over by Hong Chi-up.

He became a member of the Pyeongbuk-do Council while working as a maintenance worker in the Seoncheon area, and also served as an income investigator of the Seoncheon tax office. In 1936, he was appointed as a councillor of the Central Committee of the Japanese Government-General of Korea. When the Joseon Imjeonbo National Foundation was launched in 1941 to support the Pacific War, it participated as an promoter of Pyeonganbuk-do.

It was selected in both the list of 708 pro-Japanese groups announced in 2002 and the list of prospective people in the pro-Japanese dictionary released in 2008, and was also included in the list of 705 pro-Japanese activities announced by the Committee on Pro-General National Behavior in 2009.

See more

 * Chosun Government-General's Central Office
 * Korea Imjeonbo National Foundation

Reference

 * Hong Chi-up - National History Compilation Committee