Ho Jong-suk (; 16 July 1908 – 5 June 1991) was a prominent female figure in the

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and in the

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movement of Korea under Japanese rule. From 1948, she served multiple offices in North Korea, including the Minister of Health and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Korea.

Biography

She was born Hŏ Jŏng-ja (), the daughter of

Ho Hon Ho Hon (; 22 July 1885 – 16 August 1951) was a Korean independence activist and politician of the Japanese colonial period and early years of North Korea. As a lawyer, he defended independence activists along with Lee In and Kim Byong-ro. In ...

. In her early years, Ho went to

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to study in Kwansei School in

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. She later left and in her next years Ho went to the

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where she was given an entrance to Shanghai Foreign High School where she graduated.Ho Jong-suk
Later she returned to her country. In 1921, she participated in the women Movement and joined the Korean Communist Party. At that time, Japanese Government-General of Korea decided to make the Communist Party illegal. She avoided persecution for participation in the Communist Party. Later in 1924, she was introduced to

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, in March 1925, she went to a Women's Day event in Seoul. In 1927 she was a founding member of and also participated to

Singanhoe Singanhoe () or the New Trunk Association was a Korean independence movement, Korean independence activist group founded on February 15, 1927 during the Korea under Japanese rule, Japanese colonial period. It unified Korean socialist and nationa ...

(). Ho also was in favor of "Unrelated Love and Sex". Her opinion was denounced in Korean society because at that time, the vestiges of fundamentalist

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remained in the

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s. In 1936, she went to China where she participated in the

Korean National Revolutionary Party The Korean National Revolutionary Party (), or KNRP, was a nationalist party formed by exiles in Shanghai in 1935 to resist the Japanese occupation of Korea. At first it was the main nationalist Korean political party, but as the Second Sino-Jap ...

(). In 1938, she went to

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, participated in , an Anti-

ese

n resistance Group. In 1945, she went to

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but she left for North Korea to avoid

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. In 1948 she participated in the

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. She served as Minister of Culture in 1948–1957, and Minister of Justice in 1957. Ho served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Korea between 28 October 1959 and 1960.

Bibliography

* In Grace Lover () * Democraticism founder days () * Historical rememories of great loves ()

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