Pak Chesoon

This is a Korean name; the family name is Pak.
Pak Chesoon

Pak chesoon

Pak chesoon
Born 7 December 1858 (1858-12-07)
Yongin, Gyeonggi, Joseon
Died 20 June 1916 (1916-06-21) (aged 57)
Keijo, Japanese Korea
Occupation Korean politician
Pak Chesoon
Hangul 박제순
Hanja 朴濟淳
Revised Romanization Bak Je-sun
McCune–Reischauer Pak Chesun
Pen name
Hangul 평재
Hanja 平齋
Revised Romanization Pyeongjae
McCune–Reischauer P'yŏngjae

Pak Chesoon (Hangul: 박제순; Hanja: 朴濟淳; 7 December 1858 – 20 June 1916) was a Korean politician and diplomat during the late Joseon dynasty.[1] His pen name was Pyeongjae (평재, 平齋).[2] In modern South Korea, he is regarded as one of the Five Eulsa Traitors who betrayed the country into Japanese domination in 1905.

Biography

Pak was born in Yongin, outside Seoul where his father was a minor government official and supporter of Kim Yunsik. His family's clan name is Bannam (Hangul: 반남).[3]

In 1883, after passing the Korean Imperial Examination, he was sent to Tianjin. On October 9, 1898, he was promoted to the post of Foreign Minister, and it was in this capacity that he signed the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905 (also known as the “Eulsa Treaty”), which effectively deprived Korea of its diplomatic sovereignty and made it a protectorate of the Empire of Japan. On November 28, 1905 he became a Minister of State. Pak was the Prime Minister of the Korean Empire from 1905 - 1907 and again from 1909 - 1910.

From 1907 to 1910, Pak served as Minister of the Interior under Ye Wanyong. It was in this capacity that he signed the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, by which Korea was formally annexed by the Empire of Japan. On October 16, 1910, Pak received the kazoku peerage title of Viscount (shishaku) from the Japanese government and a seat in the House of Peers of the Diet of Japan. He later served on the Central Advisory Institute of the Government-General of Korea. Under the Special law to redeem pro-Japanese collaborators' property enacted in 2005, the property[4] of the descendants of nine people who had collaborated when Korea was annexed by Japan was confiscated by the Korean government.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Pak Chesoon (Korean)
  2. ↑ Pak Chesoon (Korean)
  3. ↑ Pak Chesoon (Korean)
  4. ↑ Committee OKs Seizure of Collaborators’ Property The Chosun Ilbo,December 7, 2005
  5. ↑ South Korea: Crackdown On Collaborators The New York Times, December 24, 2007



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