[KS] M.Y. Cho

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Thanks, Frank, for this sad news.

I never met M Y Cho, but owe him much.
In those far-off days, when materials on 
North Korea were hard to come by,
North Korea Quarterly was indispensable.
How I missed it, when he retired and stopped!
These odd-shaped yellow volumes still sit
on my shelves. Requiescat in pace.

Aidan

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In a message dated 20/03/2006 21:28:10 GMT Standard Time, frank at koreaweb.ws 
writes:


> Subj:[KS] M.Y. Cho 
> Date:20/03/2006 21:28:10 GMT Standard Time
> From:frank at koreaweb.ws
> Reply-to:Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
> To:Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
> Sent from the Internet 
> 
> 
> 
> Dear All:
> 
> I wanted to let you know that Dr. Myunghun Y. Cho, better known to 
> the Asian studies community and his friends as M.Y. Cho, passed away 
> on Sunday, March 12, in Hamburg. There will be a memorial on what 
> would have been his 75th birthday, Thursday, March 23, 3 PM, at 
> Ohlsdorfer Friedhof, Halle B., Hamburg.
> 
> For many years M.Y. Cho had been the North Korea specialist at the 
> Institute of Asian Affairs in Hamburg. He had received his M.A. in 
> the United States before continuing his academic career at Bonn 
> University, Germany, where he received his PhD in 1965. Many of you 
> will know his works about diplomatic relations between East Asian 
> nations, especially the North Korea related publications. And you 
> will likely know him through his really enlightening commentaries in 
> the (English language) publication >>North Korea Quarterly<< which he 
> published for the Institute of Asian Affairs from 1974 on until his 
> retirement. I should also mention that he wrote very many long 
> feature articles on East Asia for the leading German liberal 
> intellectual weekly >>Die ZEIT.<<
> 
> On one of these rainy days that the City of Hamburg offers more than 
> plenty of, I was sitting in his office, asking him for copies of 
> his >>Die ZEIT<< articles. He did not quite take me serious then. I 
> remember spending all weekend to read through them with growing 
> enthusiasm. That was 25 years ago. In all the time since I have 
> hardly seen any publications on current Korean affairs written in 
> such well crafted German prose, being so entertaining, vivid, and 
> intellectually challenging than these articles. As all his friends 
> are aware of, M.Y. Cho knew how to enjoy every minute of his life, 
> and his warm humor and intellectualism allowed anyone in his presence 
> to share this joy of life while sharing his company. He truly was a 
> wonderful man and we are saddened by his death.
> 
> Frank Hoffmann
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> --------------------------------------
> Frank Hoffmann
> http://koreaweb.ws
> 
> 

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