Pioneering Korean Interpreter Choi Jung-wha Dies at 70

Choi Jung-wha, who carried Korea's image abroad for 40 years, dies at 70

Choi Jung-wha, the first Korean to work as an international conference interpreter and a decades-long champion of the country's image abroad, died Sunday of breast cancer. She was 70. She built her career on the conviction that Korea could be explained to the world — and did much of the explaining herself. She interpreted for a succession of South Korean presidents, oversaw more than 1,800 international conferences, and in 2003 founded the Corea Image Communication Institute to shape how the cou

By The Korea Herald