Paek Nam-un (Korean: 백남운; 11 February 1894 – 12 June 1979) was an economist, educator and politician during the Japanese colonial period and following the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

After the independence, on the premise of some asset class and solidarity, in the article 'The Path of the Chosun People's', 'Combination of New Democracy (National Unification Front)' was proposed.

On the other hand, Paek Nam-un was attacked intensively by people in the autonomous movement when he published several criticisms of autonomy asserted by national reformists from a nationalist perspective.

With Nam Wun Baek, on August 15, 1945, first founded the Korea Academy and became professor of the Faculty of Law, Keijō Imperial University.

Paek Nam-un organized the Gyeongseong Special Committee of the Korean Independent Alliance and became Chairman.

Connected with Kim Doo-bong, Heo Jung-sook, and Choi Chang-ik, and worked with the Namjosun New Democratic Party in the National Democracy Front in February 1946.

After announcing an article against the establishment of a single government, he collaborated with Yeon-hyung Yeo to join the founding of the People's Party of Korea.

Eventually, Nam Woon Baek faces a threat of personal affairs, and first brings the family to North Korea.

At the crossroads, Paek Nam-un chose to participate in the inter-Korean negotiations with Kim Gu, criticizing the establishment of the 'South Korea Bay Government' and the May 10 general election.

He was appointed as the first Education Minister in the North Korean Cabinet led by Premier Kim Il Sung and served for eight years.

Afterwards, the distance from the coastal group was safe when Kim Doo-bong and Choi Chang-ik were purged and Hur Jeong-suk was displaced in 1961.

On his first trip to the Northern part of Korea in January 1946, he was asked by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to arrange for North Korea, such as a professor of South Korean scientists and artists, and returned to Seoul, inviting intellectuals to historian Kim Seok-hyung and Park Si-hyung, textile industry authority physicist, physicist It is known that Sang-rok Do, engineer Jae-woo Choi and Young-chang Kang, and artists Yeol-bong Moon, Chul-hwan Hwang, and Young-sin Park were arranged.