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Donald Stone Macdonald

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for a number of years. In the 1960s, he was one of the founders of the Washington Korea Tuesday Luncheon Group, and was a prominent figure in international conferences on Korea. Macdonald was a president of the Mid Atlantic Region of the
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and then became an academic on Korean affairs. His death in 1993 marked the end of almost five decades of involvement in Korea, dating from 1945 and the U.S. military occupation.
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three times, and was given the John Jacobs Rogers Award for Distinguished Service. In addition to posting in South Korea, he served in the Foreign Service in
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in the mid-Atlantic region, and worked to disseminate knowledge of Korea outside specialist circles.
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was the most popular university text on the subject. Macdonald was also the author of
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from 1971 to 1980. In 1983, he created the Korea program at
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where he earned his doctorate in political science at the
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Pedagogically speaking, Macdonald's university textbook,
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affairs, in particular the bilateral relations between
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U.S.-Korea Relations from Liberation to Self-Reliance
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