He was born in 1918 and arrived in North Korea in December 1945 as part of the 3 Koryoin detachments dispatched from the Soviet Union along with Hoo Guo-i, Pak Ui-wan, Nam Il, Kim Seung-hwa, Ki Sok-pok, and Kim Chan.
In March 1948, he was re-elected as a member of the 2nd Central Committee of the 2nd Congress of the Workers' Party of North Korea, and in August 1948, he was elected a delegate to the 1st Supreme People's Assembly, North Korea's unicameral legislature.
[2] He was elected to the legislative committee at the first session of the 1st Supreme People's Assembly, and was appointed as the head of the Cabinet Secretariat when the North Korean cabinet was formed following the formal establishment of North Korea.
After the outbreak of the Korean War, in order to focus on military affairs, on September 29, he was dismissed from the Cabinet Secretariat.
According to Soviet diplomatic documents, in 1956 he was tried by the People's Tribunal and sentenced to 15 years in prison and imprisoned.