Jaehoon Ahn
Jaehoon Ahn (
Biography
Ahn was born on May 13, 1941, in Pyongyang, Heian'nan-dō (South Pyongan Province), Korea, Empire of Japan, present-day North Korea.[1] He fled with his family from their home in Pyongyang, where his family had lived for generations, to South Korea during the night when he was five years old to escape Communism.[2] In 1960, he obtained a bachelor's degree from Seoul National University.[1]
Ahn took a position as a
Ahn retired from the research department of The Washington Post in 1996.[1] He worked for a Seoul-headquartered daily newspaper, where he helped to create the newspaper's style section and reorganize the structure of the newsroom.[1]
In 1997, Ahn was hired as the founding director of
Ahn moved to
Jaehoon Ahn died from complications from a bleeding ulcer at a hospital in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on June 1, 2011, at the age of 70.[1] He was survived by his wife, Soonhoon Lee Ahn, whom he had been married to for 42 years; two daughters, Soomie Lee Ahn and Yoomie Lee Ahn; four sisters; one brother; and three grandchildren.[1] His father died in June 1997.[2]