Special Investigation Committee of Anti-National Activities
반민족행위특별조사위원회 | |
| Abbreviation | 반민특위 |
|---|---|
| Formation | 22 October 1948 |
| Founder | Constituent National Assembly |
| Dissolved | October 1949 |
| Purpose | To purge pro-Japanese individuals and organizations |
Area served | South Korea |
Official language | Korean |
Chairman | Kim Sang-deok |
| Special Investigation Committee of Anti-National Activities | |
| Hangul | 반민족행위특별조사위원회 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | 反民族行爲特別調査委員會 |
| RR | Banminjok haengwi teukbyeol josa wiwonhoe |
| MR | Panminjok haengwi t'ŭkpyŏl chosa wiwŏnhoe |
The Special Investigation Committee of Anti-National Activities (Korean: 반민족행위특별조사위원회; abbreviated 반민특위) was established by the Constituent National Assembly to investigate those who actively cooperated with the Japanese Empire during the Japanese colonial period and conducted viciously anti-ethnic acts.[1] There is one special committee.
The Constituent Assembly passed the Anti-People of Punishment Act on 7 September 1948, to punish those who actively cooperated in the robbery of sovereignty, independence activists under Japanese imperialism, or those who violently killed or persecuted their families.[2] The anti-communist clouded the national period by using the special police station under its ambition, arresting Park Heung-sik, a bad entrepreneur of the Japanese colonial era, and Choi Nam-sun and Yi Gwangsu, who defended the Japanese people and brought them to the battlefield. Many of the pro-Japanese students who had been found were searched.[3]
Due to the systematic disturbance of the Syngman Rhee regime, which used the pro-Japanese factions after the liberation, the activities of the anti-citizens were sluggish, and on 6 June 1949, the Special Police Forces were forced to disband. The parliamentary midterm will shorten special periods.[3]