The late Seoul Archbishop Paul Ro Ki-nam and six other Catholics are named as Japanese collaborators during the Second World War in a new encyclopedia.
Catholic lay leader John Chang Myon, prime minister from 1960-1961 and the father of Bishop John Chang-yik of Chunchon, is on the list along with four Seoul priests and one other [...]
Korean historians have published a biographical dictionary bearing the names of alleged “collaborators” with colonial Japan including former Prime Minister Chang Myun, who is named for serving as a director of a Catholic group that regularly visited Japanese shrines.
Such visits were regarded as highly pro-Japanese in Korea, the Korea Herald reports.
The list, which names 4,389 [...]
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