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<DIV><FONT size=4>Dear friends and colleagues,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Like many Koreanists, unless you are sporty
types,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>I'm usually guilty of </FONT><FONT size=4>paying all too
little heed to </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>what - even in this age of <EM>hallyu</EM> - surely
remains</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Korean culture's most successful global export.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>The recent ITF championships in Pyongyang made</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>me ponder anew the odyssey of Choe Hong-hui:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>from ROK general to the bosom of Kim Il-sung,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>and now buried in the Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Choe continues to command fierce loyalty; see eg</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.itf-information.com/information01.htm"><FONT size=4>http://www.itf-information.com/information01.htm</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>I'd be interested in how his followers, eg in the
US,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>make sense of his defection. (One UK paper </FONT><FONT size=4>wrote an </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>obituary which omitted to mention where he
died!)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>In search of such material, I found something
different.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Taekwondo as specifically empowering women is a</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>novel thought; but this lengthy article, from what
I</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>think is the suburbs of Denver, makes a strong
case.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>I am much enlightened, and not a little moved:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Kind regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Aidan FC</FONT></DIV>
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