Korean History Compilation Committee was established in June 1925 by the
Japanese government
The Government of Japan consists of legislative, executive and judiciary branches and is based on popular sovereignty. The Government runs under the framework established by the Constitution of Japan, adopted in 1947. It is a unitary stat ...
. 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
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political r ...
and engaged in collecting of
Korea
Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republi ...
n historical materials and compilation of
Korean history
The Lower Paleolithic era in the Korean Peninsula and 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 earliest ...
".
means "history of Korea"; means "to compile"; means "committee" or "society".
A total of 975,534
yen (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
Governor-General of Korea
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Advisors
*
Gwon Jung-hyeon (권중현, 權重顯)
*
Pak Yeong-hyo (박영효, 朴泳孝)
*
Lee Wan-Yong
Ye Wan-yong (; 17 July 1858 – 12 February 1926), also spelled Yi Wan-yong or Lee Wan-yong ( ko, 이완용), was a Korean politician who served as the 7th Prime Minister of Korea. He was pro-Japanese and is best remembered for signing the J ...
(이완용, 李完用)
*
Lee Yun-yong (이윤용, 李允用)
*
Naitō Torajirō
, commonly known as , was a Japanese historian and Sinologist. He was the founder of the Kyoto School of historiography, and along with Shiratori Kurakichi (the founder of the Tokyo School), was one of the leading Japanese historians of East ...
(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
*
Choe Nam-seon
Choe Nam-seon (April 26, 1890 – October 10, 1957), also known by the Japanese pronunciation of his name Sai Nanzen, was a prominent modern Korean historian, pioneering poet, and publisher, and a leading member of the Korean independence moveme ...
(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 articleDoosan Encyclopedia (Encyber) articleDongsuh Encyclopedia (Pascal) article
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