Publisher Kkachigeulbang Founder Park Jong-man Passes Away

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[Asia Economy Reporter Park Byung-hee] It was recently revealed that Park Jong-man, the founder of the publishing company Kkachigeulbang established in 1977, passed away on the 14th due to an illness.

The bereaved family announced on the 22nd that, according to the deceased's wishes, a funeral mass was held with only family members in attendance, and he was laid to rest at the "Peace Shelter" of Heukseok-dong Cathedral in Seoul.

Born in 1945, the deceased graduated from Gyeongnam High School and the Department of English Literature at Pusan National University, completed graduate studies at Seoul National University's Graduate School of Journalism, and worked for two years at Ppurigipeun Namu starting in 1975. The publishing company Kkachigeulbang, founded by him in 1977, published its first book the following year, "The Ideology and Reality of Korean Nationalism" by Cha Ki-baek, Honorary Professor at Sungkyunkwan University, and has since published over 800 titles.

Among these are single volumes such as "History of Customs" (Eduard Fuchs), "To Have or To Be?" (Erich Fromm), "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (Thomas Kuhn), and "A Short History of Nearly Everything" (Bill Bryson), as well as series like "The Modern World-System" (Immanuel Wallerstein) and "The Mediterranean" (Fernand Braudel).

In 2017, as his health declined, he passed the position of publishing company CEO to his daughter, Hoo-young, and continued to work as an editorial board member.

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