[Obituary] Lee Seon-jae, lifelong advocate for women’s education, dies at 90

“Lee Seon-jae, principal of Ilsung Women’s Middle and High School and a lifelong advocate for women’s education, died Sunday. He was 90. For more than half a century, Lee devoted himself to providing education for women who had missed out on schooling because of poverty, war or family circumstances. Born in 1936 in Kaesong, in what is now North Korea, Lee fled to Seoul in 1951 during the Korean War. As a teenager, he was able to continue his studies with help from those around him, an experience

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