Politics · nobility (pro-Japanese collaborator)
| Life | 1855 ~ 1924 |
| Era | 근현대 |
| Clan | 경주 김씨 |
Kim Chun-hui (1855–1926) of the Gyeongju Kim clan was a Joseon-era official who rose to senior posts such as governor of Hwanghae Province before Japan's annexation of Korea. A nephew of Prime Minister Kim Hong-jip, he served as chief chamberlain of the imperial household at the time of annexation in 1910.
After annexation, he was granted the Japanese peerage title of baron along with a pension bond and an annexation commemorative medal, and later served as a councillor of the Government-General's Central Council. For these acts of collaboration he was listed among pro-Japanese collaborators by the Institute for Research in Collaborationist Activities (2002) and the official government commission on pro-Japanese collaboration (2007). His barony passed to his son Kim Gyo-sin and then to his grandson, the aesthetics scholar Kim Jeong-rok.
His barony was inherited by his son Kim Gyo-sin and then by his grandson, aesthetics scholar Kim Jeong-rok.