Ham Sok Hon

At 5:40 a.m. February 4th 1989, I received a telephone call from Pak Yongja, secretary to Ham Sokhon, who told me of the death of Ham. Within an hour, I was at Seoul National University Hospital, where I found Ham's corpse. Although it was early dawn, several people had already gathered there. When I looked at him in his coffin, I felt it was as if a part of myself had died. Faced with his death my mind began to wander through a labyrinth of reflections: Ham's life, his death, and my own life --- Three hours later, I had handed in my resignation to the Korean National Railway, where I had…