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Lee O-young: We must inform the world about the proud fusion culture of the Korean Peninsula

Lee O-young: We must inform the world about the proud fusion culture of the Korean Peninsula

Lee Sang-ki:This is an interview conducted in April 2007 with Lee O-young, Korea’s leading scholar and of the most intelligent people of his time who has passed away after a battle with cancer. The interview was conducted while he was at the Hankyoreh. He returned to Christianity after losing his eldest daughter, Pastor Man-ah Lee […]

Korea’s first Culture Minister Lee O-young who made Koreans fall deeper in love with their culture dies at 89

Korea’s first Culture Minister Lee O-young who made Koreans fall deeper in love with their culture dies at 89

SEOUL: Former Culture Minister Lee O-young, one of South Korea’s most revered literary critics and novelists, died of cancer Saturday at the age of 89. Lee, born in 1933 in Asan, South Chungcheong Province, served as the country’s first cultural minister in 1990-1991 under the Roh Tae-woo administration, Yonhap news agency reported. With his various […]

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