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Article: Doo Soo Suh, 87 Began Harvard's Korean studies
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 25, 1994
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Doo Soo Suh, a scholar who founded America's first Korean studies
program at Harvard University in 1952, died last Wednesday at
Framingham Hospital. He was 87.
Dr. Suh, born in Seoul, graduated from Imperial University (now
Seoul National University) and taught high school for several years
before becoming professor and dean of Ewha College, a missionary
school.
After World War II, Dr. Suh became provost of Yonsei University in
Seoul and then moved to a similar post at Seoul National Unviersity.
In June 1949, he came to the United States as a visiting scholar;
when the Korean War broke ...