Chapter Seventeen
A Life Well Lived (But just getting started)
Geon Jae-sun waited in the lobby of his condominium building in Seoul for his sixteen-year-old daughter; she was finishing just one more curl in her hair. Jae-sun dropped his youngest daughter off at school each morning on the way to the Korean Institute of Science and Technology. A professor, Jae-sun had been teaching physics at the Institute since finishing his graduate degree at MIT in 1969.
Married since 1973, Jae-sun and Park Min-seo were blessed with two daughters, one at Princeton—now that women were allowed—and one in high school.
Jae-sun’s peers respected the remarkable contributions he made to South Korea through physics and the education of the next generation—they loved Geon Jae-sun.
Jae-sun also enjoyed some f
