Tag: <span>Chi’-ho Yung</span>

Yun, Tchi-Ho [Chi’-ho] (1865-1945)
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Yun, Tchi-Ho [Chi’-ho] (1865-1945)

Korean nobleman, Methodist educator, and pioneer of Korea’s modernization At age 14 Yun Tchi-Ho was sent with a select group of aristocratic youths to Japan for foreign language study. There his ability in five languages (Korean, Chinese, Japanese, English, and French) so impressed the first American minister to Korea, General Lucius C. Foote, that he...