Military / Gendarme (pro-Japanese collaborator)
| Life | 1897 ~ 1919 |
| Era | 근현대 |
| Clan | 밀양 박씨 |
Park Yo-seop (1897-1919), from Ssangnyong-myeon, Gangseo County, South Pyongan Province, served as a Japanese military police auxiliary at the Sacheon substation of the Pyongyang Gendarmerie from 1917.
On March 4, 1919, under the command of his superior Sato Jitsugoro, he took part in opening fire on a March First Movement crowd at the Sacheon marketplace, killing 13 people and wounding about 40, before being killed by the enraged crowd himself. Although Japan posthumously awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun, South Korea's Truth Commission on Pro-Japanese Collaboration listed him among 106 pro-Japanese collaborators in 2006.