<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">Thanks, Frank, for this sad news.<BR>
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I never met M Y Cho, but owe him much.<BR>
In those far-off days, when materials on <BR>
North Korea were hard to come by,<BR>
<I>North Korea Quarterly</I> was indispensable.<BR>
How I missed it, when he retired and stopped!<BR>
These odd-shaped yellow volumes still sit<BR>
on my shelves. <I>Requiescat in pace</I>.<BR>
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Aidan<BR>
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In a message dated 20/03/2006 21:28:10 GMT Standard Time, frank@koreaweb.ws writes:<BR>
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Date:20/03/2006 21:28:10 GMT Standard Time<BR>
From:<A HREF="mailto:frank@koreaweb.ws">frank@koreaweb.ws</A><BR>
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To:<A HREF="mailto:Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws">Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</A><BR>
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Dear All:<BR>
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I wanted to let you know that Dr. Myunghun Y. Cho, better known to <BR>
the Asian studies community and his friends as M.Y. Cho, passed away <BR>
on Sunday, March 12, in Hamburg. There will be a memorial on what <BR>
would have been his 75th birthday, Thursday, March 23, 3 PM, at <BR>
Ohlsdorfer Friedhof, Halle B., Hamburg.<BR>
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For many years M.Y. Cho had been the North Korea specialist at the <BR>
Institute of Asian Affairs in Hamburg. He had received his M.A. in <BR>
the United States before continuing his academic career at Bonn <BR>
University, Germany, where he received his PhD in 1965. Many of you <BR>
will know his works about diplomatic relations between East Asian <BR>
nations, especially the North Korea related publications. And you <BR>
will likely know him through his really enlightening commentaries in <BR>
the (English language) publication >>North Korea Quarterly<< which he <BR>
published for the Institute of Asian Affairs from 1974 on until his <BR>
retirement. I should also mention that he wrote very many long <BR>
feature articles on East Asia for the leading German liberal <BR>
intellectual weekly >>Die ZEIT.<<<BR>
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On one of these rainy days that the City of Hamburg offers more than <BR>
plenty of, I was sitting in his office, asking him for copies of <BR>
his >>Die ZEIT<< articles. He did not quite take me serious then. I <BR>
remember spending all weekend to read through them with growing <BR>
enthusiasm. That was 25 years ago. In all the time since I have <BR>
hardly seen any publications on current Korean affairs written in <BR>
such well crafted German prose, being so entertaining, vivid, and <BR>
intellectually challenging than these articles. As all his friends <BR>
are aware of, M.Y. Cho knew how to enjoy every minute of his life, <BR>
and his warm humor and intellectualism allowed anyone in his presence <BR>
to share this joy of life while sharing his company. He truly was a <BR>
wonderful man and we are saddened by his death.<BR>
<BR>
Frank Hoffmann<BR>
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Frank Hoffmann<BR>
http://koreaweb.ws<BR>
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