Politics & nobility (pro-Japanese collaborator)
| Life | 1874 ~ 1959 |
| Era | 근현대 |
| Clan | 밀양 박씨 |
Park Jung-yang (1874-1959) served as head of the Daegu Self-Restraint Society (Jajedan), a member of Japan's House of Peers, and vice-chairman of the Government-General's Central Advisory Council, and was a leading collaborator in suppressing righteous army resistance and promoting wartime conscription.
Early in his career, as a Daegu magistrate and provincial governor, he tore down the old Daegu fortress walls and government offices as part of a Japanese-directed urban redevelopment, and he later served as governor of North Gyeongsang and Hwanghae provinces. He became vice-chairman of the Jungchuwon in 1943 and, in 1945, a member of Japan's House of Peers and an advisor to the Korean National Volunteer Corps.
After liberation, he was arrested at his Daegu residence when the Special Committee for the Investigation of Anti-National Activities was formed in 1949 and was imprisoned at Seodaemun Prison; in 2009 he was formally designated a pro-Japanese collaborator by the Presidential Truth Commission.