Yi Ku: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added
No edit summary
Mel Etitis (talk | contribs)
m Reverted edits by 220.117.225.246 to last version by Mel Etitis
Line 55:
Gu attended the [[Gakushuin|Gakushuin Peers' School]] in Tokyo. He later attended [[Centre College]], [[Danville, Kentucky|Danville]], [[Kentucky]] and studied architecture at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] both in the [[US]]. He was employed as an architect with I.M. Pei & Assocs, [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] on [[1960]] to [[1964]]. Made stateless by [[Japan]] in [[1947]], Gu acquired [[United States|U.S.]] citizenship in [[1959]], and [[Korea]]n citizenship in [[1964]]. He married [[Julia Mullock]] (b.1928) on [[25 October]][[1959]] at St George's Church in New York, and they adopted a daughter, Eugenia Unsuk.
 
After the fall of [[Syngman Rhee]], he returned to Korea in [[1963]] with the help of the new president [[Park Chung-hee]], moving into the new building in Nakseon Hall, Changdeok Palace with his mother and wife. He lectured on architecture at [[Seoul National University]] and [[Yonsei University]] and also managed his own airline, [[Shinhan]]. When that went bankrupt in [[1979]], he went to Japan to earn money. In [[1982]], he divorced his wife; his mother died in [[1989]]. He started living with a Japanese astrologer, Mrs Arita,. who is also a nephew of Norihisa Nashimoto, Prince Gu's first cousin.
 
In November [[1996]], he made what he hoped would be his permanent return to Korea but, showing signs of a nervous breakdown, he was unable to adjust to life in the motherland. Restlessly going back and forth between Japan and Korea, he eventually died of a heart attack at the age of seventy-four, on [[16 July]] [[2005]] at the [[Akasaka Prince Hotel]], the former residence of his parents in Tokyo, Japan. His funeral was held on [[24 July]] [[2005]] and his posthumous title decided as '''Prince Imperial Hoeun of Korea''' by Lee Family Council.