POLITICAL INFORMATION: SINO-KOREAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION

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CIA-RDP82-00457R001200300002-7
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December 15, 2016
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March 30, 2001
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January 6, 1948
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COUNTRY OI-iirta Approved For Release 04IRDENTIRAL82-00457R001200300002-7 25X1A eeeeee 1-(4? CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP ig ;ifrELLIGENCE REPORT SUBJECT Political information: eino-lorean Oultural essociaeion Ite f66 ) 25X1A 25X1X ORICIIIt 2 " DATE: 5X1X INFO. January1 DIST. 948 PAGES 2 SiiPPLEMENT I The Sino-Korean Cultural Association was formed in Chungking during Aorld Aar II with the aim of promoting Siuo-Korean friendship tiarougn a matuae excnange of culture, eUN Fo (SUN Mo4! 44.)? then chairman of toe Executive Yuan, was elected chairman of the Board of Directore of the Association_ Mem:etre of the Board of Directors and Supervisors eere: , U T4ieh-chtene kee: CHU Chia-hua (4e 11; ) 404G eai-kung (eLeiffeee ) HU Chliu-yuan (IA 101. ) eANG Chu-i --) !TANG Hen-tslao KIM Kyu-sik I:41) se e ee 45!.: Tam 1c141) ssu-Tvu 2 A13 Ha (U-) He was then the Minister . .ei-kunes Korean I-lame is SIN t? of Internal Affairs of the Korean Provisional vernment in Chungking, of which the president was KIM Ku (4: Thin government was entirely financed and controlled by the CC Clique and the Kuominteng, KIM Kyu-sik was then the vice president of the Korean Provisional Government in Chungking OM Tae-wi, better known as David om or tfm Hang-s6p ( le was P then the Propaganda Minister and an inseparable companion of KT& Ku. After the Japanese surrender, the headruarters of the Sitio-Korean Cultural Association was moved to Nanking and branch associations were established in Shanghai and Mukder- Efforts were made to contact the Korean-Chinese Cultural Association (4. 4ricfc, 9:,) in Seoul, Korea; but tnese efforts apparently failed bacauslof tne difficultiee of communication between the two countries. then Syng-man RHEE (4- hc... at) visited ehine in June 1947, the Sino-tele.an Cultural Associatton neld a welcome party for him at the Park Hotel in Shanehai. Since that time '.0e eneociation hae been CLA3SFtCATU)N uONJiLThTiM. Document No. NO CHANGE in Class. 0 DECLASSIFIED Class. CHANGED CHANGED Tee TS ' S 0 DDA Memo, 4 Apr 77 )1t4A Auth: DDA REG. 77/1763 ' Date: i m4gA1ldrfr e 26ONFIDMIAL 2-00457R001200300002-7 25X1A Approved For Release (coNpmEctimA62-00457R001200300002-7 CONFIDENTIAL 25X1A CENTRAL INTEMIGENCE GROUP /1142/Yg inactive, but it still officially exists. Moreover, the majority of the leading mombers seem to have lost interest in the Association. 4. Leading members of the Shanghai Branch of the Sino-Korean Cultural Association are as follows: Board of Directors: C4airman: PIAN Kung-cnan Members: SSU-Tql Te (4 LI Jo-ch'uan c;(*) 4ANC Chu-i T1 AN Ch 41 'XV, Korean 24 others Board of Supervisors: Members: 25X1A WANG Yao-lai (* 4L II Chteing-chlan (21.- -14 Korean, former Commander-in-Chief of the Korean Restoration Army; at present in Korea 13 others Note: for details on the Sino-Korean Cultural Association in Mukden.) T his document contaira infor..mtim affect:AI._t.io natiinald crense of the United 5tates vithtn the moanin,:, of the it.spionap Act, 50# U.S.C. 51 and 32 as amended. Its transmission or the revelation or its contents In any manner to an unauthorized persJn is prohibited by law. CONFIDENTIAL Approved For Release DiATIA2-00457R001200300002-7