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Choe Nam-seon (
April 26 1890-
October 10 1957) was a Korean historian and
independence activist. He was born into a
jungin (middle class) family in
Seoul, Korea, under the late
Joseon Dynasty, and educated in Seoul in the classical Chinese manner. He was sent to Japan on a government scholarship in 1904, where he enrolled at the First Tokyo Middle School (now
Hibiya High School; however, he was expelled from the school in 1905 for a protest he organised among the Korean students there over the signing of the
Eulsa Treaty. After his expulsion, he returned to Korea, but went to Tokyo again in 1906 to study at
Waseda University. While in Japan, he was converted to the Japanese style of modernization, and sought to pattern Korea's modernization after the Japanese approach. He participated in the
Patriotic Enlightenment Movement, publishing the first successful Korean modern magazine,
Sonyeon (Youth), and pioneered new styles of
Korean poetry.
Choe contributed to cement ties between
Cheondogyo and Christian leaders with
Kim Do-tae and drafted the Declaration of Independence for the
March 1st Movement in 1919. Though he wrote the Declaration of Independence, he refused to sign it, fearing reprisals by the Japanese leadership in control at the time. He was arrested by authorities and imprisoned until 1921. He then joined an organization, the
Editing Agency of Korean History established by the
Japanese Governor-General commissioned to compile the history of Korea. He wrote many pro-Japanese speeches and articles from 1937 until the liberation of Korea in 1945.
In 1949,
Syngman Rhee’s government arrested Choe for collaboration with the Japanese during the colonial period, but he was released due to illness. During the
Korean War, Choe served on the Naval History Committee; after the war, he served on the Seoul City History Committee. He also advised the
Government of South Korea for the rationalization of the
Syngman Rhee line and the sovereignty of
Liancourt Rocks. He died of a
cerebral hemorrhage in October 1957.
Choe's reputation as a Korean historian is controversial due to his early studies on the traditional founder of Korea,
Dangun, and his later contributions which were heavily influenced by Japanese views. His historical works are characterized by his complex, intricately detailed, and voluminous writing style.
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