He also had the Japanese names Shigeyō Hōchū (朴忠重陽), Jūyō Boku (朴 重陽) and Shin Yamamoto (山本 信).

[3] He demolished the castle of Daegueup and the Old Gyungsangdo Provincial Office, and contributed to city planning and road maintenance in Daegu.

He was a conscientious Japanese colonial supporter with pro-Japanese group ideology as well as an advocate for civil rights.

Pak Chungyang was born on May 3, 1872, in Junae-myeon in Yangju County, Gyeonggi Province, Joseon.

In his adolescence, he joined the Independence Club, but it was dispersed due to the repression of the Korean Empire.

In Shanghai, China Kim Ok-kyun, a reform minded activist, was murdered by assassin Hong Jong-u.

Parts of his body were put on public display in several towns in Korea as a traditional humiliation and punishment for treason.

Pak grew an extreme hatred towards the Korean Empire and the people of Korea.

[4] After the graduation, Pak adopted Neo-Confucianism and the 'Theory of the national prosperity and the military power' from Ito Hirobumi.

In 1903, Pak successfully filled various government posts, and was also appointed as a staff of the Public Administration Agency.

During the term, Pak tore down the castle of Daegueup without official permission[9][10] He secretly hired Japanese workers to tear down the structure.

After the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake and subsequent Kantō Massacre, he appealed to the Japanese government to release the arrested Koreans, and asserted that the Koreans were not involved in the criminal cases which occurred during the earthquake.

On October 22, 1941, he was appointed as the adviser of the Fight-patriotic of Joseon Group, which merged with the Peoples Mind Alliance in January 1943.

Korea was liberated on August 15, 1945, after the end of World War II, but Pak stayed in Daegu.

After October 1945, as some pro-Japanese group begged for their lives, he ridiculed Korean resistance activists.

On January 1, 1949, he was arrested by the Special Investigation Committee of Anti-National Activities and charged under the National Traitor Law.

The Joseon dynasty was society of more darkness, Japanese ruled time was reformed of modern Korea.

Later, he continued to criticize President Syngman Rhee, Kim Ku, Lee See-yeong and Ham Tae-yeong as "patrioteers".

Pak Chungyang died Chimsan Mountine, in Daegu on April 23, 1959, due to pneumonia.

His first son Park Mun-ung (박문웅, 朴文雄; December 7, 1890 – 14 August 1959) was the succeeding mayor of Cheongdo, Cheongsong, Sangju, and Dalseong County in North Gyeongsang Province in 1940s.

Pak's diary was captured when he was arrested by the Special Investigation Committee of Anti-National Activities.