Chang, Hak-pong
67pBiographical sketch of Chang Hak-pong (1917–), the compiler of this collection. At 67 pages, this is one of the longest entries.
Document
PDF sourced from the Library of Congress Korean Rare Book Collection. 67 pages.
Transcription — handwritten Korean, first pass in progress
This document is a handwritten Korean manuscript (and in some cases photocopied typed pages) from a collection compiled 1995–2001. Full transcription requires manual reading or AI vision-based OCR of the scanned pages. Transcription is in progress.
Translation / Context — first pass
Handwritten Korean manuscript — first-pass transcription in progress. Chang Hak-pong (1917–) is the author and compiler of this entire collection. Born in 1917, he was a Soviet Korean who served in the DPRK and survived the purges. He compiled this manuscript between 1995 and 2001, drawing on personal knowledge and documents, to preserve the biographies of his contemporaries who were purged or erased from official North Korean history. His own entry, at 67 pages, is among the most extensive, and likely serves as a combination of autobiography and contextual framing for the collection.