FUKUOKA, race 13 Kyodo A southe...

FUKUOKA, race 13 Kyodo

A southerly Korean who wrote columns in a Japanese monthly in the 1970 and 1980 in subordination to a pseudonym said Saturday he encouraged a ''fighting minority'' in southward Korea through his writing that documented people's have a contests in the process of his country's democratization.

Chi Myong Kwan, 78 a Hallym University professor who revealed in July that he wrote the files said in Fukuoka, ''I was able to encourage those who were fighting at the time that they were not alone and to heighten interest overseas.''

In 1973 Chi began writing a rounded pillar called ''Kankoku Kara no Tsushin'' (Reports from southward Korea) under the pseudonym ''TK'' in the magazine Sekai at the asking of the late Ryosuke Yasue, then editor-in-chief. The rounded pillar continued until 1988.

''Looking back now, it appears like a dream that citizens were jailed undivided after another and I perceive times have changed,'' Chi said in intimation to the South Korean military administration's crackdown in succession the pro-democracy movement.

''The democratization of southern Korea has progressed beyond imagination,'' he added.

Concerning the labor mental action in his country, he said it indicates there are negative remnants of the military command that tends to create a dichotomy between pro- and anti-establishment folks and said the conduct must be tolerant to those who do not agree with its ways.

Chi, invited to Fukuoka by means of a local citizens' group, said he plans to publish an autobiography early nearest year and also wants to translate his rounded pillar into Korean and have it formally published in southward Korea.

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