Ho Jong-suk (; July 16, 1908 – June 5, 1991) was a prominent female figure in the

Communist Party of Korea The Communist Party of Korea () was a communist party in Korea. It was founded during a secret meeting in Seoul in 1925. The Governor-General of Korea had banned communist and socialist parties under the Peace Preservation Law (see History of Ko ...

and

sexual liberation The sexual revolution, also known as the sexual liberation, was a social movement that challenged traditional codes of behavior related to sexuality and interpersonal relationships throughout the United States and the developed world from the 1 ...

of Korea under Japanese rule. From 1948, she served multiple offices in

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...

, including the Minister of Health and Chief Justice of the

Supreme Court of North Korea The Central Court is the supreme court and the highest organ in the judiciary of North Korea. The Court is accountable to the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA). The SPA elects its justices, and the SPA Standing Committee elects its chief justi ...

Life

She was born as Ho Jongja (허정자; 許貞子)., the daughter of

Ho Hon Ho Hon ( ko, 허헌; 22 July 1885 – 16 August 1951) was a Korean independence movement, Korean independence activist in Korea under Japanese rule, Japanese controlled Korea and politician in the early years of the Democratic People's Republic o ...

. In her early years, Ho went to

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

to study in Kwansei School in

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

. She later left and in her next years Ho went to the

Shanghai International Settlement The Shanghai International Settlement () originated from the merger in the year 1863 of the British and American enclaves in Shanghai, in which British subjects and American citizens would enjoy extraterritoriality and consular jurisdiction ...

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...

where she was given an entrance to

Shanghai Foreign High School Shanghai (; , , Standard Chinese, Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four Direct-administered municipalities of China, direct-administered municipalities of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the ...

where she graduated.Ho Jong-suk
Later she returned to her country. In 1921, she participated in the women Movement and joined

Korean Communist Party The Korean Communist Party () was a communist political party organized in Shanghai, China and Irkutsk, Russia in 1921. It has its origins in the Siberian region after the Russian Revolution. It dissolved in 1922. Background It was an or ...

. At that time, Japanese Government-General of Korea decided to make the

Communist Party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A ...

illegal. She avoided persecution for participation in the Communist Party. Later in 1924, she was introduced to

International Women's Day International Women's Day (IWD) is a global holiday celebrated annually on March 8 as a focal point in the women's rights movement, bringing attention to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against wom ...

, in March 1925, she went to Women's Day event in Seoul. In 1927 she was a founding member of and also participated to

Singanhoe Singanhoe () or the New Trunk Association was a Korean independence activist group founded on February 15, 1927 during the Japanese colonial period. It unified Korean socialist and nationalist factions and maintained a unilateral independence ...

(신간회). Ho also was in favor of "Unrelated Love and Sex". Her opinion was denounced in Korean society because at that time, the vestiges of fundamentalist

Confucianism Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China. Variously described as tradition, a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or ...

remained in the

Korea Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic o ...

s. In 1936, she went to China where she participated in the

Korean National Revolutionary Party The Korean National Revolutionary Party ( ko, 조선민족혁명당, Minjok Hyǒngmyǒng-dang), or KNRP, was a nationalist party formed by exiles in Shanghai in 1935 to resist the Japanese occupation of Korea. At first it was the main nationalist ...

(조선민족혁명당). In 1938, she went to

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, an ...

, participated in , an Anti-

ese

n resistance Group. In 1945, she went to

Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 ...

but she left for

to avoid

right-wing terrorism Right-wing terrorism, hard right terrorism, extreme right terrorism or far-right terrorism is terrorism that is motivated by a variety of different right-wing and far-right ideologies, most prominently, it is motivated by neo-Nazism, anti-commun ...

. In 1948 she participated in the

North Korean government In the North Korean government, the Cabinet is the administrative and executive body. The North Korean government consists of three branches: administrative, legislative, and judicial. However, they are not independent of each other, but all br ...

. She served as Minister of Culture in 1948-1957, and Minister of Justice in 1957. Ho served as the Chief Justice of the

between 28 October 1959 and 1960.

Bibliography

* In Grace Lover (은혜로운 사랑 속에서) * Democraticism founder days (민주건국의 나날에) * Historical rememories of great loves (위대한 사랑의 력사를 되새기며)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ho, Jong-suk 1908 births 1991 deaths Korean revolutionaries Korean communists Korean Marxists Korean women philosophers Korean writers Korean educators Korean scholars 20th-century Korean women Kim Kyu-sik Kim Won-bong North Korean atheists 20th-century North Korean women politicians 20th-century North Korean politicians Anti-Japanese sentiment in Korea Korean independence activists Korean journalists 20th-century Korean philosophers Women chief justices North Korean judges Korean women judges Socialist feminists 20th-century journalists Members of the 1st Supreme People's Assembly Members of the 2nd Supreme People's Assembly Government ministers of North Korea Women government ministers of North Korea

Life

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