Choi Jung-wha, pioneer of Korean cultural diplomacy, dies at 70

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• ·Longtime professor and advocate of cultural exchange was first Korean to provide simultaneous interpretation, later receiving Officier rank in France's Legion of Honor.
• ·Choi Jung-wha, president of the Corea Image Communication Institute (CICI) and the first Korean woman to be awarded the Officier rank of the Legion of Honour, has died.
• ·She was 70.
• ·The emeritus professor of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) died at Samsung Medical Center at 12:30 p.m.
• ·on Sunday, according to her family.