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Chu Yo-han

Died in 1979

Chu Yo-han was born on 5 December 1900 in Pyongyang, the son of a Protestant pastor. He studied in Japan, at Meiji Gakuin college and then at the First Higher School in Tokyo, and was part of the team of a literary magazine founded in 1919. A refugee in Shanghai the same year, he ran the provisional government's newspaper and studied chemistry at Hujiang University. A journalist at the Dong-A Ilbo and then the Chosun Ilbo, he sided with Japan after his arrest in 1937. A member of parliament, he was Minister of Commerce and Industry in 1960, then ran companies. He died on 17 November 1979.

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