Kim Gap-sun (Korean: 김갑순; Hanja: 金甲淳; May 22, 1872 – 1961) was a Joseon bureaucrat and modern Korean businessman, politician, and realtor.^[1] He was a significant slaver and landowner in South Chungcheong Province during the Japanese colonial period.

In his early life he was successively Governor of Buyeo County (1902), Noseong County (1903–1905, 1907–1910), Gongju County (1906–1907, 1910), Kimhwa County (1908–1910), and Asan county (1910–1911). His art name was Sungap, and his courtesy name was Dongwu.

Each time he took office as county governor, the thing he was most interested in was real estate. For example, in the 1930s, the area of Daejeon-eup was 1,907,400m² (578,000 pyeong), and the land owned by Kim Gap-sun was 220,000 pyeong. So, at that time, he owned close to 50% of the land in Daejeon.^[2]

After liberation, he was arrested and tried by the Special Investigation Committee on Anti-National Acts (반민족행위특별조사위원회) in January 1949, but was released on bail.^[3]

References

Sources

• "김갑순(金甲淳)" [Kim Gap-sun]. Nate항욱학 (koreandb). 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-06-27.

• "김갑순(金甲淳)" [Kim Gap-sun]. Encyclopedia of Korean National Culture.

• Byeon Pyeong-seop (변평섭) (2023-07-07). "김갑순, 교도소 심부름꾼에서 대전 땅 절반 소유 땅부자로" [Kim Gap-sun, from a prison errand boy to a landowner who owns half of the land in Daejeon]. Chungcheongnam-do government. ; Byeon Pyeong-seop is the former director of Chungnam History and Culture Research Institute.

See also

https://ankim.tistory.com/8597710