Chi Myong Gwan, who informed world of oppression in South Korea, dies

Chi Myong Gwan, a scholar who exposed the oppression suffered by South Korea's pro-democracy movement in the 1970s and 1980s through his writings in a Japanese magazine, died of a stroke at a hospital near Seoul on Saturday, his family said. He was 97.While living in Japan, Chi penned a series of pieces for the Sekai (The World) monthly between 1973 and 1988 under the pseudonym "T.K Sei," using materials brought out of South Korea by Christians to inform the world of human rights abuses under military dictatorships and of the pro-democracy movement challenging them.After returning to South …READ FULL ARTICLE