Politics·Overseas (Pro-Japanese collaborator)
| Life | 1883 |
| Era | 근현대 |
| Clan | 전주 이씨 |
Yi Beom-ik (1883-date of death unknown), from Danyang, North Chungcheong Province, entered the government-run Hanseong Foreign Language School in 1898 and graduated from its Japanese-language department in 1902. He went on to serve as a councilor of the Government-General of Korea's Central Council (Jungchuwon), reaching the fourth court rank, second class order, by around 1936.
Shortly after the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, he was appointed a senior official of Manchukuo and put in charge of Jiandao (Gando) Province, home to a large ethnic Korean population, as its provincial governor. While serving as Gando's governor, he oversaw the suppression of anti-Japanese resistance in Manchuria, including establishing the Gando Special Force, a unit created to hunt down anti-Japanese guerrillas. He was accordingly listed as a collaborator in 2002, 2008, and 2009, and is named a collaborator by the government's Committee for the Investigation of Pro-Japanese Collaborationist Activity and in the Institute for Research in Collaborationist Activities' Dictionary of Pro-Japanese Biography.