 Hong was held responsible for all the atrocities committed by Imperial Japanese Army prison guards against allied POWs, and was hanged in 1946.Hong, a member of the Namyang Hong clan, was born in 1889 to a "yangban" family in Anseong, Gyeonggi-do.In 1905, as the Eulsa Treaty was being signed, he entered into the military academy of the Korean Empire.