Mun Jae-geun
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| Native name | 문재근 |
| Born | 8 July 1901 Dongbaek, South Gyeonggi Province, Joyonghea |
| Died | 14 May 2005 (aged 103) Borchaek, Ulsan Province, Joyonghea |
| Allegiance |  Joyonghea |
| Branch | Joyonghean Sovereign Army |
| Years of service | 1922 – 1976 |
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| Other work | Military Academy Professor |
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Mun Jae-geun, TGGK PPGGK (8 July 1901 – 14 May 1995) was a Joyonghean general officer that served in the Joyonghean Sovereign Army. He is best known for his efforts in the Third Joyonghean-Quenminese War, where he held command of the Anbyeon Amalgamated Army from 1944 to the end of the war.
Mun was born in Dongbaek in 1901 to a military family, whose father was a veteran of the Second Joyonghean-Quenminese War and the Trabian Civil War. At 18, he attended the Goyewi Military Academy, and graduated a major in 1929. He served in the Second Kiribitan Civil War and the Fifth Lorican-Quenminese War. He became an instructor at the same academy in 1933, where he befriended and mentored Namgung Wook-yun and Chae Hwa-young. During the Third Joyonghean-Quenminese War, he returned to command the Seventh Army and participated in the Liyonne Evacuation and the Battle of Jejunom. His forces were evacuated to the mainland after the Jejunom Coup, and his army was assigned to the nascent Anbyeon Amalgamated Army under Cheon Sang-ji's command. His army played key roles in Allied counteroffensives in Western and Central Joyonghea, especially the November Offensive, the Quenminese-Archadian Retreat to Northern Joyonghea, and the Gangwon-Ragye Offensive. During the Imperial Autumn Counteroffensive, Mun robbed the Imperial armies of a decisive victory at the Battle of Poneung and Chosuji and contributed significantly to the Imperial retreat at the Battle of Munghae by leading a strongly coordinated attack against the Imperial Left Wing. For this action, he was promoted to Grand General and given command of the Anbyeon Amalgamated Army by Cheon. He led the army group through the Sepo-Miryang Offensive and achieved decisive victories at the Battle of the Five Mountains and the Battle of Miryang, which preserved Harry Kurosawa's incentive to continue Operation Surrogate. Mun oversaw the Joyonghean advance north to Churuongchandat in the Saebyang Offensive and the encirclement of the Imperials from the west in the Myukdae Campaign. After the war, he was made Chief of Staff of the Army and oversaw major military developments in Joyonghea during the War of Lorican Aggression.
After the war, he retired and became professor at the Goyewi Military Academy. He died in Borchaek on 14 May 2005, aged 103.