The Japanese monthly opinion magazine Sekai (the world) published a series of reports titled “Letters from South Korea,” which opened a small window for the rest of the world to take a peek into what was happening to South Koreans under what felt like an endless military dictatorship.
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, has died of a stroke at a hospital near Seoul, his family says. He was 97.