<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div class="" style=""><span class="" style="">Members,</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span class="" style=""><br></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span class="" style="">My copy of Volume 88 (2013) of "Transactions" by the Royal Asiatic Society - Korea Branch has just arrived from Seoul. It was beautifully prepared and professionally bound. </span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span class=""
style=""><br></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span class="" style="">I encourage you all to pick up a copy and read "1945: Korea Faces a Post-Colonial Future" by yours truly, Bill Streifer. It is essentially a reprint of an April 1945 article by Dr. Fritz J. Hansgirg, an Austrian-born German national, a brilliant chemist and metallurgist, who spent over five years in Japan (including 2.5 years in Konan, Korea) before WWII began. </span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span class="" style=""><br></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span class=""
style="">Hansgirg's article discusses the problems that Korea would face when Japan is finally defeated and Koreans must survive on their own. My article in Transactions also includes a two-page introduction including information -- with the benefit of nearly 70 years (1945-2014) -- that Dr. Hansgirg could not have possibly known at the time.</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">-- Bill Streifer</span></div> </div></body></html>