Lee Dong-hwan (Korean: 이동환; Hanja: 李東煥, Japanese:Moriyama Tatsuo (森山 辰雄), May 19, 1916 – November 11, 1991) was a South Korean government official, diplomat, and businessman. Lee served as vice-minister in the Japanese Home Ministry, as a Postal and Telecommunications officer for the Gangwon province[a] in the Government-General of Chōsen. Later, he served as a chief representative to the Japanese government and as a South Korean diplomat to Australia.[1][2]
He worked towards the normalization of post-war relationships between Japan and South Korea.[3][4][2]
Life
editHe attended the Keijo Higher Commercial School, graduating in 1940. Lee then studied at the Tokyo University of Commerce, which he graduated from in 1942.[1]
Lee was born on May 19, 1916, in Tanchon,Kankyōnan-dō, Korea, Empire of Japan. He died on November 11, 1991.[2]
Notes
edit- ^ The province would later be split into Kangwon Province, North Korea, and Gangwon Province, South Korea
References
edit- ^ a b Nagashima, Hiroki (2022-03-25). "`Teikoku' no daigaku ni mananda Chōsen hito gakusei" 「帝国」の大学に学んだ朝鮮人学生 [Korean students of "Imperial" universities]. Research Center for Korean Studies at Kyushu University (in Japanese). 22: 125. doi:10.15017/4797811.
- ^ a b c Lee, Eun-hee, "Lee Dong-hwan (Lee Dong-hwan)" 이동환 (李東煥), Encyclopedia of Korean Culture (in Korean), Academy of Korean Studies, retrieved 2024-07-27
- ^ Park, Tetsuhiko (2005). Nikkan kōryū in de sasaeta otoko: Paku Tetsuhiko no jinsei chosha: Paku Tetsuhiko 日韓交流陰で支えた男: 朴哲彦の人生著者: 朴哲彦 [The shadows of the man who supported Japanese-Korean relationship: The life of Park Tetsuhiko] (in Japanese). Translated by Mizunuma, Keiko. Sankei Shimbun.
- ^ Meiji, Taisho, ed. (2014). 新聞集成昭和編年史. 昭和36年版 4 (自7月-至8月) [Newspaper Collection Showa History. 1961 Edition 4 (From July to August)] (in Japanese) (4 ed.).
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