Chung Suk Ko

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Chun Suk Ko was a mining engineer at Korea Coal Corporation before he came to Canada and started convenience store business in 1978. As a board member of Ontario Korean Business Association, the biggest Korean-Canadian economic organization in Canada, he had dedicated to found a co-operative organization as a subordinate association to support community solidarity and seek its actual profit.

Over 12 years, as a first priority before everything including his own business, He volunteered as a vice-president of Ontario Korean Business Association, as well as a management chairman of co-operative organization from 1982 to 1994.  Truly, He has contributed to Korean Business Association with his tireless passion. As a great father, he did not give up supporting education of his children in a long period of recession and disadvantage circumstances. His first son James became a doctor in San Francisco after graduated Harvard University. Inspiring Korean’s status through education, He became a role model of nongovernmental diplomat.  Chun Suk was active to achieve Korean Communities’ unification, which was separated as conservative and liberal. On September, 2003, when he was visited Blue House of South Korea as a member of the National Unification Advisory Council, he advised to president a long term relationship plan between Korea and Canada to prevent World Economic Block and lack of natural resources in Korean peninsula.

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