The government has frozen it, the 'remnants of traitors'.. Great-great-grandfather Ha Young's 'An Sang-ho Virtue Monument', classified as a 'pro-Japanese facility' [Star Issue]

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Following the revelation that Ha Young (33, Ahn Ha-young)'s great-great-grandfather An Sang-ho was identified as a member of a pro-Japanese traitor organization alongside Yi Wan-yong, it has been reported late that the 'An Sang-ho Virtue Monument' is classified as a 'pro-Japanese facility'.

According to the Gyeonggi-do Memory Digital Archive, the 'Virtue Monument for Former Physician An Sang-ho' is installed in Anyang-ri (now Anyang City), Gyeonggi-do. However, it is registered as a 'pro-Japanese facility' in the Gyeonggi-do Pro-Japanese Cultural Remnants Archive.

Notably, this 'Virtue Monument for Former Physician An Sang-ho' was also featured in the January 5, 1928 issue of Maeil Sinbo, a newspaper published by the Japanese colonial government. Maeil Sinbo reported: "Since opening his clinic, An Sang-ho has achieved self-made success and is now praised as a wealthy man worth thousands of seok (a unit of volume for grain), particularly among the rich. In Siheung County's Anyang-ri, there is a stone monument erected by tenant farmers who cultivate land owned by him. Examining his family life, his Japanese wife, Mrs. I-so (Iseki), whom he married in Tokyo 22 years ago, is described as a woman of virtue, and they have seven children: four sons and three daughters. An Sang-ho was a pioneer among Koreans for being the first to marry a Japanese wife."

Additionally, records state: "He graduated from the dental department of Keijō Imperial University and opened an Anyang Dental Clinic in Anyang 1-dong, Manan-gu, Anyang City, engaging in medical practice. After liberation, he entered the economic sector and served as a factory manager at the Joseon Pipe Factory. From his father An Sang-ho's time onward, he was the largest landowner in the Anyang area, owning vast tracts of land around the Anyang Market and Nam-bu Market areas. In 1947, he donated approximately 100,000 pyeong (a unit of area) of land in Anyang 3-dong, Anyang City, greatly contributing to the establishment of Anyang Middle School and Anyang Industrial High School. He also donated about 15,000 pyeong to childcare facilities in Anyang, and after the end of the Korean War, he personally funded the construction of the embankment along Anyangcheon from Bisan Bridge to Korea Paper Co., contributing significantly to the development of the Anyang region."

An Sang-ho, whom Ha Young boasted about on terrestrial variety shows, has records showing his participation as a council member in the establishment of the Daejeong Friendship Association in November 1916. This association was founded by Min Young-gi, vice president of the Oriental Development Company and a pro-Japanese traitor against the nation, who served as its chairman. Many prominent pro-Japanese traitors of the era, including Yi Wan-yong, Jo Jung-eung, Song Byung-jun, and Lee Yun-yong, were members.

Furthermore, records indicate that An Sang-ho was one of the doctors who saved Yi Wan-yong's life. According to a paper published in Volume 32 of the National Institute of Korean History's Journal of Historical Studies, on December 22, 1909, Yi Wan-yong was attacked with a dagger by independence activist Lee Jae-myung at Myeong-dong Church in Seoul, suffering wounds to his shoulder and abdomen.

However, the assassination attempt failed. Yi Wan-yong survived despite being stabbed three times because he underwent Korea's first thoracic surgery. An Sang-ho was among the medical team involved. Records state that An Sang-ho, along with doctors from Hansung Hospital, the president of Andong Hospital, the chief physician and deputy director of Daehan Hospital, and former physician Park Jong-hwan, participated in the treatment that saved Yi Wan-yong's life.

At that time, Lee Jae-myung, who was arrested for the assassination attempt, was sentenced to death and died for his country on September 30 of the following year.

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