[KS] Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 79, Issue 30

[Hesung Koh]

My sincere condolences to Dr. Lee's family.  Dr. Lee was one of our keynote
speaker at 1982 Korean Culture Through the Arts conference that I organized
at Yale.  Dr. Kim Won Yong was another keynote speaker of that conference. .
It was indeed a memorable occasion.  Since we  had China and Japan experts
on music and art  comment on Korea  at that conference, we also enlightened
China and Japan scholars not to mention Koreanists  about Korean music and
art thanks to Dr. Lee and Dr. Kim.
His lovely wife, Mrs Lee also accompanied him at that time.
We have videotapes of that conference which was made into one hour
Connecticut  Public Television program.We are deeply grateful for his kind
contribution to the field of Korean music.

Kindly convey my sincere sympathy to Dr. Lee's family.

Hesung Chun Koh,
Chair
East Rock Institute and also
Director Emerita, East Asian Research,HRAF, Yale University
New Haven, CT

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> I am sad to announce that Dr. Lee Hye-Ku, one of the foremost scholars in
> the history of Korean music studies, has passed away.  Born in Seoul in
> 1909, his work in broadcasting during the 1930s led him to the study of
> Korean music. In 1947 he became a professor in the College of Music at Seoul
> National University and, over the course of thirty years, taught some of the
> most prominent figures in Korean music studies today.  At Seoul National, he
> instituted the first Department of Korean Music in South Korea. He
> contributed immensely to the scholarship in both Korean and English, and
> wrote a great number of the articles and volumes that I and most of my
> colleagues studied upon embarking on our journeys into the world of Korean
> music.   He died of old age on Saturday, January 30, 2010 at noon at the age
> of 101.  He will be greatly missed by colleagues and students.  A memorial
> service will take place on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 10 am at the
> National Center for Korean Trad!
>  itional Performing Arts in Seoul.
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> Hilary Finchum-Sung
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