Kim Jong-pil
Kim Jong-pil was born in Buyeo County, Chungcheongnam-do. He was educated as Hwangukshinmin seosa (황국신민서사) education victim of Japanese imperial rule from the age of 8 until he was 19, when Japanese rule was suppressed. He graduated from the Korea Military Academy in 1949 (KMA class No. 8). He studied in the USA in 1951 and participated in the Korean War as an intelligence officer of the Republic of Korea Army.