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Duk-Joong Won, PhD
Author Duk Joong Won was born and raised in Korean peninsula, a whirlpool of international conflicts in the twentieth century. A history of his citizenship may demonstrate how turbulent the interna...view moreAuthor Duk Joong Won was born and raised in Korean peninsula, a whirlpool of international conflicts in the twentieth century. A history of his citizenship may demonstrate how turbulent the international politics have been in the region where he was born and grew up:
Duk Joong was born in a remote farm village in northern Korea as a citizen of the Imperial Japan. Korea was a colony of Japanese Empire from 1910 through 1945.
As Japan surrendered to the U.S. in August 1945, he became a citizen of Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea). DPRK ruled the northern half of Korean peninsula under the auspices of the USSR.
On June 25, 1950, North Korean Army swept nearly entire Korean peninsula. The only real estate that DPRK did not control was Bussan Metropolitan Area on the southeastern tip of the peninsula. The U.N. Security Council formed U.N. forces from troops of sixteen nations to save the bewildered South Korea. As the DPRK army retreated to the border between China and Korean peninsula, Communist China sent her massive "volunteer" army and reinforced North Korean troops. Duk Joong was a tender 12 years old child when he was handed a small package to carry on his back. His mother stayed behind with a plan that she would join her son "tomorrow morning." The UN military command assured the civilians refugees that we would be allowed to return home in three days. He never saw his mother again. He walked more than fifty days through the valleys fighting the cold winds from Siberia, climbed the mountains buried with deep snow, and crossed ice floating rivers unclothed in subzero temperature. When his refugee trail stopped at Daejon City in the Central South Korea, he automatically became a citizen of the Republic of Korea (South Korea).
After Duk Joong completed his education from sixth grade through college in South Korea, he came to the United States for his post graduate studies. He was able to attain Master's and Doctorate degrees in Agricultural Economics at the University of Maryland. In 1974, he began his professional career as an economist as an employee of Bechtel, Inc. In 1977, Dr. Won and his two close associates decided to found a consulting firm in Washington, D.C. and named it Applied Systems Institute Inc. In 1978, Dr. Won and his family chose to become naturalized citizens of the United States.view less
Books by Duk-Joong Won, PhD
Three-Day Journey: Stories of a Twelve-Year-Old Korean War Refugee