Cha Sa-baek
Cha Sa-baek (車士伯, 1899 – ?) was a Korean educator. She was the wife of Presbyterian minister [[Jeon Pil-sun]].
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Cha Sa-baek (車士伯, 1899 – ?) was an Korean educator. She was the wife of Presbyterian minister Jeon Pil-sun.
Life
She graduated from the Lambert Girls' School Nursery Teacher Training Department in Osaka, Japan, and from 1923 began working as a teacher at the Jungang Child Care School in Seoul.
In the late 1920s, she participated as secretary in the Geunuhoe, an organization formed by Christian women intellectuals in alliance with socialist groups, with Kim Hwal-lan as its chairperson. She later served as vice principal of the Jungang Child Care School, and was active as an educator.1
Near the end of the Japanese rule of Korea, she was suspected, like Jeon Pil-sun, of supporting the war effort. She served as secretary of the Aeguk Geumchahoe, organized jointly by new women's leaders including Kim Hwal-lan and wives of Joseon aristocrats, and she also served as a steering committee member of the Women's Division of the Joseon Imjeon Bogukdan. She was included in the Chung-hu Women's Corps and went on lecture tours to the Hamgyong Province region. As an influential educator, she attended pro-Japanese lectures and roundtable discussions on several occasions. Together with Im Yeong-sin and Dokgo Seon, she also joined the Joseon Childcare Federation.
In 1945, under the US Army Military Government in Korea, she took part in a women's movement advocating that the heads of girls' schools should be women. She became the first principal of the six-year Muhak Public Girls' Middle School, which opened as a result. This school traces its origins to the Gyeongseong Muhak Public Girls' High School of the Japanese colonial era, and is the present-day Muhak Girls' High School.
In 2008, she was included in the education/academia category of the List of people scheduled for inclusion in the Dictionary of Pro-Japanese Collaborators by the Institute for Research in Collaborationist Activities, published by the Institute for Research in Collaborationist Activities. Jeon Pil-sun is listed in the religion category of the same list.
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