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Choe Nam-seon

Died in 1957

Choe Nam-seon was born in Seoul in 1890. He left for Japan in 1904, entered Waseda University in 1906, then founded a magazine for young people in 1908 and published, according to the Korea Times, dozens of titles, many of them classics. In 1919 he drafted the declaration of independence of the 1 March movement and was imprisoned until 1921. A historian of ancient Korea, he joined the history committee of the Government-General in 1927 and supported Japan during the war; arrested in 1949 for collaboration, he was released in 1950. He died on 10 October 1957.

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