Cho Bansik - Soubanshoku

Korean nationalist leader. His pen name was Kodo. He was born in Banseok-myeon, Gangseo-gun, South Pyeongan-do (Heiannan-do/Pyeonannam-do). He graduated from Meiji University in Japan in 1913 (Taisho 2). He served as principal of Osan Middle School, general affairs officer of the Young Men's Christian Association, central committee member of the Shinkankai, and president of the Chosun Ilbo newspaper, and was called the "Korean Gandhi" for his non-resistance national movement. Immediately after liberation in 1945, he became a central figure in nationalism in North Korea, taking on the posts of South Pyeongan Provincial Chairman of the National Foundation Preparation Committee, Director of the Five Provinces Administrative Bureau, and Chairman of the Democratic Party of North Korea. However, because he opposed the "Trusteeship of Korea Proposal" decided at the Moscow Foreign Ministers' Conference in December of the same year, he was placed under house arrest by the Soviet occupation authorities, and his whereabouts are unknown. He is presumed to have died around 1950.

[Momo Tamaki]

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朝鮮の民族主義指導者。号は古堂。平安南道(へいあんなんどう／ピョンアンナムド)江西郡班石面生まれ。1913年（大正2）日本の明治大学を卒業。五山中学校校長、キリスト教青年会総務、新幹会中央委員、『朝鮮日報』社長等を歴任しつつ、無抵抗主義民族運動を唱えたため、「朝鮮のガンディー」とよばれた。1945年解放直後、建国準備委員会平安南道委員長、五道行政局長、北朝鮮民主党委員長等に就任し、北朝鮮における民族主義者の中心人物となった。しかし、同年12月のモスクワ外相会議決定「朝鮮信託統治案」に反対したため、ソ連占領軍当局により軟禁され、生死不明となった。1950年前後に死亡したと推定されている。

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