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“According to Choi Jung-hwa, North Korean agents infiltrated the federation and instructed experts in the martial art – including himself – in a plot to assassinate President Chun, who governed South Korea for much of the 1980s.
“I was unintentionally involved,” Choi Jung-hwa said on his return to Seoul. “I think that’s because of my political naivety or spirit of adventure.”
He told the Korea Times newspaper he had hired two agents to shoot President Chun during a 1982 visit to Canada.
The plot was reportedly uncovered, forcing Choi Jung-hwa to flee to eastern Europe and eventually to North Korea.
He returned to Canada in 1991 and was released after serving one year of a six-year jail term, his aide told AP.
My name is Michael Sean Gallagher. I am a Lecturer in Digital Education at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. I am Co-Founder and Director of Panoply Digital, a consultancy dedicated to ICT and mobile for development (M4D); we have worked with USAID, GSMA, UN Habitat, Cambridge University and more on education and development projects. I was a researcher on the Near Futures Teaching project, a project that explores how teaching at The University of Edinburgh unfold over the coming decades, as technology, social trends, patterns of mobility, new methods and new media continue to shift what it means to be at university. Previously, I was the Research Associate on the NERC, ESRC, and AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund sponsored GCRF Research for Emergency Aftershock Forecasting (REAR) project. I was an Assistant Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (한국외국어대학교) in Seoul, Korea. I have also completed a doctorate at University College London (formerly the independent Institute of Education, University of London) on mobile learning in the humanities in Korea.
