Constituent Assembly member, 2nd Governor of South Chungcheong, 10th Minister of Home Affairs
| Life | 1902 ~ 1980 |
| Era | 대한민국 |
| Clan | 여양 진씨 |
Jin Heon-sik (陳憲植, 1902-1980) was a South Korean politician from the Yeoyang seat, born in Yeongi County, South Chungcheong. He was born on 9 February 1902 and died on 19 September 1980, and graduated from the Faculty of Law of Chuo University in Japan.
Around liberation he worked as a lecturer at Bosung College and Yangjeong High School, and served as a managing director of Joseon Mining and a director of Dongrim Machinery. After liberation he served as secretary general of the Interior Ministry's political operations corps of the Provisional Government, head of the research department of the National Society for the Rapid Realization of Korean Independence, and head of the foreign department of the Korean National Diplomacy Support Association.
He won the 1948 Constituent Assembly seat for Yeongi, South Chungcheong, with 25.11 percent of the vote. He was 2nd Governor of South Chungcheong (1951-52) and 10th Minister of Home Affairs (1952-53). He lost in the 1950, 1958 and 1960 elections, and his name is on the list of signatories of the 1974 Declaration for Democratic Restoration.
Elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1948, Jin Heon-sik was active in the legislature at the founding of the Republic. He then served as governor of South Chungcheong and Minister of Home Affairs, handling local and interior administration during the Korean War. Specific achievements in that period were not confirmed here.
Wikipedia also categorizes him as a businessman of the colonial period but does not describe those activities in detail. Whether he is listed in the Dictionary of Pro-Japanese Collaborators was not confirmed, and no conclusion is drawn.
The location of his tomb was not confirmed.