On the 15th, a mourner visiting the funeral hall of the late Baek Ki-wan, director of the Unification Issues Research Institute, set up at Seoul National University Hospital in Jongno-gu, is wiping away tears. Born in Dongbu-ri, Jangryeon-myeon, Eunyul-gun, Hwanghae-do in 1932, the late Baek devoted himself to farmers', the poor's, unification, and democratization movements since the 1950s, participating broadly in Korean social movements./Reporter Kim Hyun-min kimhyun81@
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