<div dir="ltr">I heard that Gary Rector had passed on this September from a friend who is looking for an obituary. She's sure there should be one related to his devotion to Korean Studies. Does anyone have any information?<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">CedarBough T. Saeji</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">  ∞ </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://ubc.academia.edu/CedarBoughSaeji" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Profile on Academia.edu</a></span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia Department of Asian Studies</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">"Preserving intangible culture as static performances in the hope of sustaining cultural diversity may do very little to foster the processes of change and regeneration that are needed to ensure cultural vitality and heterogeneity" (Pietrobruno 2009: 240).</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Apt. 116  / </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">3655 Wesbrook Mall / </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Vancouver BC / </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">V6S 0G6 / </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">CANADA</span><br></p></div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>