Politics · Nobility (pro-Japanese collaborator)
| Life | 1857 ~ 1927 |
| Era | 근현대 |
| Clan | 안동 김씨 |
Kim Yeong-han, of the Andong Kim clan, began his official career in 1886 as an investigator at the Ministry of Punishments, held several posts in finance and legal affairs through the 1890s, and rose to councilor of the Korean Empire's Privy Council by 1900. After Japan's annexation of Korea in 1910, he served for roughly seventeen years as a councilor on the Japanese colonial government's Central Advisory Council.
During this period he helped found the Confucian promotion society Yudo Jinheunghoe in 1920 and served on the council of the Dongminhoe in 1924, an organization regarded as a leading pro-Japanese group of the colonial era, and he received several honors from the colonial government, including the 1912 Korea Annexation Commemorative Medal. For this record he was later listed as a collaborator on the 2002 roster of 708 pro-Japanese figures, in the Institute for Research in Collaborationist Activities' Dictionary of Pro-Japanese Collaborators (2008), and on the government's 2007 list of 195 pro-Japanese figures. He was the younger brother of the Korean noble Kim Jong-han (1844-1932) and the son of the official Kim Gyeong-jin.