「Ｔ・Ｋ生」池明観氏死去、９７歳　「韓国からの通信」で独裁告発

　【ソウル時事】１９７０～８０年代の韓国軍事独裁時代に「Ｔ・Ｋ生」のペンネームで朴正煕政権などの抑圧を告発し、民主化運動の実態を伝えた日本の雑誌コラム「韓国からの通信」を執筆した池明観・翰林大元教授が１日、持病のため死去した。９７歳だった。
　２４年に現在の北朝鮮の平安北道で生まれ、ソウル大で宗教哲学を学んだ。７２年に日本に渡り、東京女子大で教えながら、韓国の民主化運動を紹介。９３年に帰国し、「知日派」として日韓歴史共同研究の韓国側代表などを務めた。韓国の日本文化開放にも尽力した。
　韓国からの通信は７３～８８年に岩波書店の月刊誌「世界」で連載され、韓国以外で民主化運動への関心を引き起こした。「Ｔ・Ｋ生」の正体は長らく明らかにされなかったが、２００３年に自ら筆者だったと名乗り出た。（2022/01/01-23:38）

Chi Myong-kwan, who, in a column in a Japanese magazine, accused the suppression by South Korea's regimes including the one led by former President Park Chung-hee during the country's military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s, died of a chronic disease on Saturday. He was 97.
   In the column, titled "Kankoku kara no Tsushin" (Communication from South Korea), Chi, former professor at South Korea's Hallym University, also wrote about the democratization movement in South Korea at the time. The column, for which Chi used the pen name of "T.K-sei," was part of "Sekai" (World), a monthly magazine from Japanese publisher Iwanami Shoten.
   Born in what is now North-Pyongan Province in North Korea in 1924, he studied philosophy of religion at Seoul National University.
   After moving to Japan in 1972, Chi introduced the democratization movement that was taking place in South Korea at the time while teaching at Tokyo Woman's Christian University. He returned to South Korea in 1993 and served as, among other roles, South Korea's representative in a Japan-South Korea joint project for research on the history between the two countries, because he was well versed in Japan affairs. Chi also supported South Korea's push to lift its ban on Japanese culture.
   The column appeared in the Sekai magazine between 1973 and 1988, boosting interest in prodemocracy movements in many countries other than South Korea.