Politics·Economy & Society (Pro-Japanese collaborator)
| Life | 1904 ~ 1985 |
| Era | 근현대 |
| Clan | 전주 이씨 |
Yi Suk-jong, born in Seoul in 1904, studied Western painting at the Tokyo Women's Art School and briefly at Tokyo Imperial University before returning to teach in Korea and founding Seongshin Girls' School (now Sungshin Women's University) in 1936. During the late colonial period she served as a leadership figure of the pro-Japanese Provisional Wartime National Service Corps women's brigade and wrote in 1943 urging Korean women to comply with wartime grain requisitions, activities for which she is listed as a collaborator by Korean government commissions and the Dictionary of Pro-Japanese Biographies. After liberation she chaired the Korean National Council of Women, served as a Yushin-era National Assembly member, and continued to expand the Sungshin school system until her death in 1985.