page_title: Ho Hon
section_title: End of the Japanese colonial period
hierarchical_section_title: Ho Hon / Biography / End of the Japanese colonial period
caption_attribution_description: 中文: 1946. 10 首爾 朝鮮共山黨 21周年 昌建記念日 朴憲永 한국어: 1946년 10월, 서울에서 개최된 조선공산당 제21주년 창립기념 행사에 참석한 박헌영
context_page_description: Ho Hon was a Korean independence activist in Japanese controlled Korea and politician in the early years of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. As a lawyer, he defended independence activists along with Lee In and Kim Byong-ro. In September 1948, following the official proclamation on the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the northern part of the Korean peninsula, he was elected a delegate to the first convocation of the Supreme People's Assembly, the unicameral parliament of North Korea. the unicameral parliament of North Korean state. He also served President of Kim Il-sung University. While working as a reunification activist, he drowned in the Chongchon River in August 1951. He was also the father of Ho Jong-suk, a female activist and a politician in North Korea.
context_section_description: In the 1930s, his poor salary for professors earned him a plunge into the real estate and mining industries. He even went to the point of relying on livelihood for Yoon Chi-ho, Kim Seong-soo, and Song Jin-woo.
  At the end of the Japanese occupation in 1943, he was involved in a shortwave broadcasting case. At the time, Ho Hon was severely tortured at the age of 58, and the alleged exile of his daughter, Heo Jung-sook, was included in the charges. After two years in prison, his health deteriorated extremely badly, and in April 1945 he was released as a jeweler. Afterward, Ho Hon went down to the house of Munhwa-myeon, Sinchon County, South Hwanghae Province, where his wife's wife is, and was liberated while relaxing at Dalcheon Hot Spring. He was nursed in Sinchon for four months from April 1945.
caption: Pak Hon-yong (middle) and Ho Hon (left) attended the 21st anniversary of the founding of the Korean Communist Party in Seoul in 1946
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