Choe Nam-seon
Wrote the 1919 Declaration of Independence; later collaborated with the Japanese authorities (listed in the Dictionary of Pro-Japanese Collaborators)
In 1908 he founded the magazine Sonyeon and published the new-style poem "From the Sea to Youth" in it. He set up the Joseon Gwangmunhoe to publish Korean classics. He was imprisoned for writing the 1919 Declaration of Independence. In his theory of Bulham culture he studied Dangun and ancient culture. But in 1928 he joined the Korean History Compilation Committee, and in the late colonial period he collaborated with Japan, urging students to volunteer for the army. He was designated a pro-Japanese collaborator by the Presidential Committee for the Inspection of Collaborations for Japanese Imperialism and is listed in the Dictionary of Pro-Japanese Collaborators.
