Hong Nam-pyo

Hong was born on April 17, 1889, in Yangpyeong County, Gyeonggi Province. He participated in the revolutionary movement in 1910 after graduating from Seoul Chung-Ang School. In 1919, he participated in the March First Movement and then left for Manchuria, where he participated in partisan activities from 1920, but was arrested in 1921 and imprisoned for two years.^{[citation needed]}

In 1925, he participated in the founding of the Communist Party of Korea and was elected as a candidate member of the Central Committee. On December 9, 1946, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of South Korea at the joint meeting of the Central Committee of the South Korean Labor Party and the Central Inspection Committee.^[1] He was arrested by the United States Army Military Government in Korea in 1946 and served four months in prison.^[2]

In April 1948, he defected to Soviet-controlled Korea, and attended the south–north joint conference as a representative of the Workers' Party of South Korea. In August 1948, he was elected^[3] as a delegate to the 1st Supreme People's Assembly, and on September 9, following the formal declaration of independence at the 1st session of the 1st Supreme People's Assembly, he was elected as vice-chairman of that body. On June 28, 1949, he was elected a member of the Central Committee at the first meeting of the Central Committee of the Fatherland Front.^{[citation needed]}

He died at 7:30 pm on 3 June 1950, just before the outbreak of the Korean War after a serious illness. In November 2005 he was buried at the Patriotic Martyrs' Cemetery in Pyongyang.^{[citation needed]}

• Suh, Dae-sook (1981). Korean Communism 1945–1980: A Reference Guide to the Political System (1st ed.). University Press of Hawaii. ISBN 0-8248-0740-5.