Korean History Compilation Committee () was established in June 1925 by the

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. It is also known as Korean History Compilation Society, Association of the Compilation of Korean History, Korean History Compilation Bureau or Society of Compiling Korean History. According to Article 1 of the Regulation of Korean History Compilation Committee (朝鮮史編修会官制, 1925), "Korean History Compilation Committee was administered by the Governor General of Korea and engaged in collecting of

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n historical materials and compilation of

Korean history The Lower Paleolithic era on the Korean Peninsula and in Manchuria began roughly half a million years ago. Christopher J. Norton, "The Current State of Korean Paleoanthropology", (2000), ''Journal of Human Evolution'', 38: 803–825. The earli ...

". A total of 975,534

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(not adjusted for inflation) was spent, and a considerable number of books were published. The books can be categorized into Joseon History (25 volumes), History Collection (102 volumes), and Reprint of Historical Records (1623 volumes). However, no copies of the Reprint of Historical Records are known to exist today.

Organization

The Chairman

*Administrative official of the

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Advisors

* Gwon Jung-hyeon (권중현, 權重顯) *

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(박영효, 朴泳孝) *

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(이완용, 李完用) * Lee Yun-yong (이윤용, 李允用) *

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(內藤虎次郞) * Hattori Unokitchi (服部宇之吉) * Katsumi Kuroita (黒板勝美) * Yamada Saburō (山田三良) * Hayami Hiroshi (速水滉)

Committee member

*Eo Yunjeok (어윤적, 魚允迪) *Yi Neunghwa (이능화, 李能和) *Shōgo Oda (小田省吾) * Ryū Imanishi (今西龍)

Commission member

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(최남선, 崔南善)

Manager

*Inabe and the 3 other people.

Investigator

*Sin Seokho (신석호, 申奭鎬) * Yi Byeongdo (이병도, 李丙燾) *Hong Hee (홍희, 洪熹) *Inaba Iwakichi (稲葉岩吉) *Fujita Ryosaku (藤田亮策)

Notes

References

Korea Britannica article

Doosan Encyclopedia (Encyber) articleDongsuh Encyclopedia (Pascal) article
{{Authority control Organizations based in Korea under Japanese rule Historiography of Korea 1925 establishments in Korea Korean collaborators with Imperial Japan 1945 disestablishments in Korea *