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Dr Dong Hyun Choi recommends that you learn about the Great Leader Il Sung Kim, the Eternal President of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and his Juche teachings. You are invited to visit the beautiful DPRK (North Korea), Dong Hyun Choi’s Heartland.
Dong Hyun Choi was born in 1972 in South Korea (the Republic of Korea). He started music as a child. He lived in Saudi Arabia from 1982 to 1984. In 1988, he was invited to come to England. He was an unwanted child. His family disowned him. In the 90s, European governments funded his study. He won international prizes in arts. South Korea disapproved of his success and pressed him to return to Korea and do army as a soldier in its military for 3 years. Little by little, South Korea destroyed his career. In 1996, South Korea brutalised him in an act of torture. In 1998, he was no longer given a passport by South Korea. In 1999, a letter from the UK Parliament was sent to the South Korean Foreign Minister Soon Young Hong, asking South Korea to leave Dong Hyun Choi alone free. International figures endorsed this, among them, the conductor Sir Colin Davis. Apart from acknowledging the letter, South Korea did not respond to it. The UK subsequently took Dong Hyun Choi as a political refugee, naturalised him as British, and gave him a new identity.
Other refugees from South Korea: For the past half a century, South Korea has tortured many of its own citizens including artists and academics, creating South Korean refugees such as Dong Hyun Choi in the West. Among them was the composer Isang Yun (1917-1995). Following South Korea’s abduction and torture of him before sentencing him to death, Isang Yun was taken as a political refugee by the then West Germany and was naturalised as German. His music, whilst banned in South Korea for the rest of his life, has been widely performed in North Korea and around the world.
We cannot answer your questions on Dong Hyun Choi but we state the following: We will not compromise the safety of Dong Hyun Choi and his associates. No one, whose name is mentioned in this site, knows where Dong Hyun Choi is today or how to get hold of him. We cannot assist with your accessing Dong Hyun Choi’s work but he recommends Naida Cole’s music. There is a PhD, among others about Ana (a Dong Hyun Choi insider), thesis titled ‘Political defections and transdisciplinary arts & literature from South Korea: Artistic & literary sustainability in state/military brutalisation-conditioned anonymous identity reassignments.’ It was ratified on the recommendations of Professor Jean-Yves Bosseur and Professor Allen Fisher. You may come across Dong Hyun Choi in your everyday life or be his friend and not know it. Dong Hyun Choi’s partner or family (ie girlfriend, boyfriend, wife, child) and friends do not know who Dong Hyun Choi is. Dong Hyun Choi could be your Brazilian girlfriend without your knowledge. For a decade, Dong Hyun Choi has had no contacts with anyone who is South Korean or in South Korea, and does not wish to have any. Dong Hyun Choi’s birth family means nothing to him. South Korea means nothing to Dong Hyun Choi. If you manage to track down Dong Hyun Choi and turn him into South Korean authorities, you will get bounty money. So that you and those around you are not put at risk, you are advised not to attempt to hurt Dong Hyun Choi or come anywhere near him. If you inflict damage on or kill Dong Hyun Choi, there may be dire consequences on South Korean targets and South Korean people. We are libel-protected as we hold legal Government documents on Dong Hyun Choi’s case with verifiable sources and unequivocal evidence to prove every claim made in this site. If you send abusive correspondences, you may face redress. If you want to know why South Korea so hated and abused Dong Hyun Choi, you are advised to direct your enquiries to the perpetrators.
An art work that was of the greatest inspiration and hope for will to carry on for Dong Hyun Choi is the opera Die Soldaten (‘The Soldiers’) by Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918 - 1970), a work that depicts the Ultimate Brutal Barbaric Macho - the Military, the Soldier and the Army. (That is what South Korea so wanted and failed in compelling Dong Hyun Choi to.) Dong Hyun Choi recommends Naida Cole.
In the early 80s, Dong Hyun Choi attended RICS - SAIS- R School in Riyadh.
In South Korea, the infamous NSL (National Security Law) puts charges of treason and pro-North Korean activities punishable by death. You could aid the infamous NIS’ desperado in situ by feeding it with information on Dong Hyun Choi. If you want Dong Hyun Choi dead, you ought to play with pros above it.
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1972. Dong Hyun Choi is born in Pohang, South Korea, on 2 August 1972, to Ms. Soonja Park (b. 25 February 1944, Seoul) and Mr. Jooho Choi (b. 17 July 1944, Seoul) as the youngest of two sons. (Elder brother: Dong Suk Choi, b. 30 April 1970, Seoul.) Father: Graduate (BSc, MSc) of the Seoul National University (architecture), worked for SKC (Sunkyong Corporation) before setting up and running Gye-Won Engineering, later becoming Chang-Woo Engineering. Mother: Graduate (BA) of the Seoul National University (international relations). Elder brother: Graduate (BSc, MSc) of the Seoul National University (chemistry), who, in 1996, marries a woman born in 1969 who attended the same BSc course in chemistry at the SNU. Dong Hyun Choi is first cousin of Tae-Won Chey, the Chairman & CEO of SK Group (formerly Sunkyong Group, a top 5 conglomerates in South Korea today), the eldest son of SK Group's founder founder Jong-Kun Chey and son-in-law of the former South Korean President (1988-1993) Roh Tae-woo.
1986. Dong Hyun Choi is habitually beaten by his mother and elder brother. His mother favours her elder son and wishes rather her second son Dong Hyun Choi did not exist. Dong Hyun Choi’s elder brother wishes rather he had a little sister instead. There is a failed attempt by Dong Hyun Choi’s family to murder him. 1988. The Yehudi Menuhin School invites Dong Hyun Choi to come to England. He settles in Britain. His mother engineers ways to rid him. At the Yehudi Menuhin School, Dong Hyun Choi studies with Malcolm Singer who goes on to guide him in the subsequent years. 1990. Dong Hyun Choi returns to Britain and attends the University College London to study archaeology and human sciences. He starts to write poems and explores his interests in ballet. As ever, the ballerina Ekaterina Maximova remains his heroine. He travels to Edinburgh just to see Rudolf Nureyev dance. (Later in 1996, after Nureyev’s death, Dong Hyun Choi becomes a Rudolf Nureyev Foundation scholar.) 1991. Dong Hyun Choi’s piece is performed by the American pianist Geoffrey Burleson at the Montanea Festival in Switzerland and broadcast on the US National Radio. 1992. Dong Hyun Choi wins second place at the International FFFIM Besançon Composition Competition. 1993. The composer Philippe Manoury takes Dong Hyun Choi as his protégé and introduces him to artists and art institutions in other parts of the world. 1994. The South Korean Government, the South Korean Military, the South Korean Civil Service bodies and the South Korean Foreign Ministry disrupt Dong Hyun Choi’s place at IRCAM, forcing him to withdraw. Dong Hyun Choi’s career faces destruction by South Korea, and he is made an illegal immigrant in France by South Korea. Dong Hyun Choi starts to have doubts on whether South Korea is worth bringing credits to with his achievements at international stages. 1995. Whilst in France, Dong Hyun Choi and his family do not want much to do with each other, particularly his mother Soonja Park. In this respect, Dong Hyun Choi is taken by Noriko Kurokawa, a Japanese-French lady twice his age, who treasures him and gives him love, care and support as his patron. Dong Hyun Choi also has very close acquaintance with a number of girls a few years older than him who treat him as their precious younger brother. 1995. Whilst in France, Dong Hyun Choi is awarded a German government scholarship as he wins postgraduate funding from DAAD to spend a year studying in Berlin, all fully paid for. But the South Korean Government, the South Korean Military, the South Korean Civil Service bodies and the South Korean Foreign Ministry disrupt this, forcing Dong Hyun Choi to give up the award. As result, Dong Hyun Choi cannot go to Germany. 1996. Dong Hyun Choi seriously questions whether other countries (and not South Korea) merit his bringing credits to with his international awards and scholarships, and is left with no option than to look into political defection away from South Korea. 1996. Dong Hyun Choi is tortured by the South Korean Military at its headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. Dong Hyun Choi is disfigured irreversibly and has to make and wear specially-made scar-concealing garments everyday for the rest of his life. Dong Hyun Choi flees South Korea for the West. (This is the last time Dong Hyun Choi was in South Korea.) Dong Hyun Choi and his family cease all communications and completely disown each other. (This is the last time Dong Hyun Choi spoke to or saw his family. There is no wish from either party to know anything about each other or to have anything to do with each other ever again.) 1997. Dong Hyun Choi wins the Luis de Narváez International Composition Competition (Spain). 1998. Dong Hyun Choi moves to Britain. Human rights groups, academics and artists across the world give support on Dong Hyun Choi’s case, starting with the composer Steve Martland. Dong Hyun Choi’s case is cited by Amnesty International at one of its public lectures in front of hundreds of audience. 1999. Baroness Tonge of the UK Parliament writes to the South Korean Foreign Minister Soon Young Hong with a number of letters from international personalities and campaigning organisations demanding that South Korea free Dong Hyun Choi and leave him alone to pursue his studies and career in arts freely, including from the conductor Sir Colin Davis of the Royal Opera and the London Symphony Orchestra, Cambridge University Astrophysics Research Director Dr. Rachel Padman, the violinist and conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic, Parliament Forum Law Professor Stephen Whittle OBE , Stanford University Music Professor Jonathan Harvey, the late University Vice-Chancellor Professor Stephen Holt, and other academics and university principals in Europe and beyond. South Korea acknowledges to Baroness Tonge of the UK Parliament the receipt of these letters but does not respond to the matters addressed in them. 1999. Six months later, Baroness Tonge of the UK Parliament writes a follow-up letter to the South Korean Foreign Minister Soon Young Hong, asking when a response to the issues raised in the first letter may be given. This is plain ignored by South Korea. 1999. As result of winning the Luis de Narváez International Composition Competition, the Granada Music Festival programmes a public performance of Dong Hyun Choi’s work with radio broadcast and invites him to attend the premiere of his work in Spain. But South Korea refuses to give Dong Hyun Choi a passport, and as result, Dong Hyun Choi cannot take up this opportunity in Spain. 2000. As result of winning the IBLA Grand Prize in Music (Ragusa, Italy-New York, USA), the IBLA Foundation’s President Dr. Salvatore Moltisanti invites Dong Hyun Choi for a lecture tour in New York and Little Rock (Arkansas) in the United States. But again, South Korea refuses to give Dong Hyun Choi a passport, and as result, Dong Hyun Choi cannot take up this offer in the Unites States. 2000-. The authorities in Britain take Dong Hyun Choi as an outright political refugee based on the 1951 UN Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and subsequently naturalise him as British, with a new history and identity (different name, date of birth, place of birth, gender etc.). Dong Hyun Choi now represents the UK and North Korea. Dong Hyun Choi is developing and expanding his work with UK and North Korean officials.
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