In Memorium
Remembering Yong-ho Ch’oe, a Pioneering Historian of Korea and a Champion of Harmony between the East and the West
Yong-ho Ch’oe, Emeritus Professor in the Department of History at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, a pioneering scholar of Korean history, a devoted husband, and a loving father of two sons, died peacefully on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, in Honolulu. He was 93. Born in 1931 in the city of Daegu in southeastern Korea during the…
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Kevin O’Rourke (1939-2020)
By Bruce Fulton Kevin O’Rourke’s passing has deprived us of our most accomplished translator of Korean literature, past and present, prose and poetry. His published translations span a period of nearly fifty years. His first book-length translation was Ten Korean Short Stories, published by Yonsei University Press in 1971, a mere seven years after he arrived in…
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