Ho, Ka-I
8pBiographical sketch of Hŏ Ka-i (Ho Ga-i), a significant Soviet Korean political figure.
Document
PDF sourced from the Library of Congress Korean Rare Book Collection. 8 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. Hŏ Ka-i (Aleksei Ivanovich Hegai, 허가이) was one of the most powerful Soviet Koreans in the DPRK. A founding member of the Korean Workers' Party, he served as Vice-Premier and was among the top Soviet Korean leaders. He died in 1953 under suspicious circumstances — officially suicide, though many believe he was murdered at Kim Il-sung's direction — before the main purges even began.