POLITICAL INFORMATION: SINO-KOREAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 30, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 6, 1948
• Content Type: IR

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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:
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CHU Chia-hua (4e 11; )
404G eai-kung (eLeiffeee )
HU Chliu-yuan (IA 101. )
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!TANG Hen-tslao
KIM Kyu-sik I:41)
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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
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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
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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:
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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.)
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