Ho Jong-suk

Ho Jong-suk (Korean: 허정숙; Hanja: 許貞淑; RR: Heo Jeong-suk; MR: Hŏ Chŏng-suk; July 16, 1908 – June 5, 1991) was a Korean independence activist, writer, journalist, and communist. Her real name was Jongja (정자; 貞子).[1]

In this Korean name, the family name is Ho.
Ho Jong-suk
1930
Born
Ho Jong-ja

(1908-07-16)July 16, 1908
Seoul, Korea
DiedJune 5, 1991(1991-06-05) (aged 82)
Pyongyang, North Korea
OccupationIndependence activist
Political partyWorkers' Party of Korea
Parent(s)
Korean name
Chosŏn'gŭl
허정숙
Hancha
Revised RomanizationHeo Jeongsuk
McCune–ReischauerHŏ Chŏngsuk
Courtesy name
Chosŏn'gŭl
정자
Hancha
Revised RomanizationJeongja
McCune–ReischauerChŏngja

She was a member of Singanhoe, Geunwoohoe and the Communist Party of Korea and also an early Korean women's rights activist. She was the daughter of Ho Hon, an independence activist and politician who served as the first chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly.

Life

In her early years, Ho went to Japan to study in Kwansei School in Tokyo. She later left and in her next years Ho went to China where she was given an entrance to Shanghai Foreign High School where she graduated.[2] Later she returned to her country. In 1921, she participated in the women Movement and joined Korean Communist Party.

At that time, Japanese Government-General of Korea decided to make the Communist Party illegal. She avoided persecution for participation in the Communist Party. Later in 1924, she was introduced to International Women's Day, on March 1925, she went to Women's Day event in Seoul. In 1927 she was a founding member of Geunwoohoi and also participated to Singanhoe (신간회).[3]

Ho also was in favor of "Unrelated Love and Sex". Her opinion was denounced in Korean society because at that time, the vestiges of fundamentalist Confucianism remained in the Koreas.

In 1936, she went to China where she participated in the Korean National Revolutionary Party (조선민족혁명당).[2] In 1938, she went to Hebei, participated in Chosen Independence alliance, an Anti-Japanese Korean resistance Group.[2] In 1945, she went to Seoul but she left for North Korea to avoid right-wing terrorism. In 1948 she participated in the North Korean government.

Ho served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Korea between 28 October 1959 and 1960.[4][5]

Bibliography
  • In Grace Lover (은혜로운 사랑 속에서)
  • Democraticism founder days (민주건국의 나날에)
  • Historical rememories of great loves (위대한 사랑의 력사를 되새기며)

See also

References
  1. Ho Jong-suk (in Korean)
  2. Ho Jong-suk (in Korean)
  3. Ho Jong-suk
  4. Scalapino, Robert A.; Lee Chong-Sik (1972). Communism in Korea: The society. 2. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 1366. ISBN 978-0-520-02274-4.
  5. Service, United States. Foreign Broadcast Information (1960). Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts.
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