Politics · Religion (pro-Japanese collaborator)
| Life | 1860 ~ 1924 |
| Era | 근현대 |
| Clan | 파평 윤씨 |
Yun Pil-o was a figure active in politics and religion during the late Korean Empire and Japanese colonial period.
Pro-Japanese activities: He was a founding member of the Daegu Self-Restraint Corps and served as head of the North Gyeongsang branch of the Gungmin Association. For these activities he was named by the government's Committee for the Investigation of Pro-Japanese Collaborator Activities and included in the Dictionary of Pro-Japanese Collaborators compiled by the Center for Historical Truth and Justice.
Yun Pil-o was born in 1860 in Dalseong (Daegu), Gyeongsang Province, and took the pen name Maeseok. In 1899 he helped found Dalseong School in Daegu and served as its principal, and in 1907 he joined Seo Sang-don, Yang Gi-tak and Yun Ung-nyeol in the National Debt Repayment Movement, helping raise funds across North Gyeongsang Province. He later served as a colonial-era county magistrate in Yeongyang, Yean and Uiseong.
After the March First Movement broke out in 1919, he became a founding member of the Daegu Jajedan ("Self-Restraint Corps"), a pro-Japanese organization formed to suppress the independence protests, and personally organized its Gyeongju branch; the following year he headed the Daegu chapter of the pro-Japanese Gungmin Association, which promoted "New Japanism." He died in 1924.
His son Yun Hong-yeol served as a member of the South Korean Interim Legislative Assembly and president of the Daegu Sibo newspaper. His granddaughter Yun Deok-ju was one of Korea's early women's basketball players and later vice president of the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee, and his granddaughter's husband Seo Jeong-gwi served as a National Assembly member (4th and 5th terms) and Vice Minister of Finance.