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}} Yang Sung-chul (born 20 November 1939) is a South Korean political scientist, politician, and diplomat. ==Early life and career== Yang was born in Gokseong County, Jeollanam-do in 1939. He did his undergraduate studies at Seoul National University's Department of Political Science. While in college, he volunteered to serve in the Korean Army from 1960-1962 as a student draftee. He began working at the ''Hankook Ilbo'' as a reporter in October 1963, but received a scholarship in 1965 to study at the University of Hawaii at Manoa's East–West Center for his master's degree. It was there that he first met Kim Dae-jung, of whom he would go on to become a political supporter; Kim was visiting Hawaii at the time at the invitation of the U.S. Department of State. He went on to the University of Kentucky for his doctoral studies, where he defended a dissertation comparing the South Korean April Revolution of 1960 which led to the resignation of Syngman Rhee and the May 16 coup the following year which brought Park Chung-hee to power.〔 Upon receiving his Ph.D., he taught at the Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond for four years and returned to the University of Kentucky system in 1975 to 1987 where he was a full professor and a member of the University of Kentucky graduate faculty. He also taught at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, Indiana University in Bloomington, and Pembroke State University in Pembroke, North Carolina. While in the United States, he was one of the founding members of the Association of the Korean Political Scientists in North America and served as its Secretary-General. Yang married after moving to the United States, and had two children there. He naturalised as a U.S. citizen in 1977.〔〔; quote: "양성철(梁性喆)주미 대사 내정자와 그 가족들의 국적 문제가 시빗거리가 되고 있다. 그는 77년 미국 국적을 취득했다가 12년만인 89년 이를 포기, 한국 국적을 회복했고 이어 15대 국회에 진출한 사람이다." (citizenship issues of Yang Sung-chul, the nominee for Ambassador to the U.S., and his family are becoming a matter of controversy. He obtained U.S. citizenship in 1977 and gave it up 12 years later in 1989, and resumed his South Korean citizenship and became a member of the 15th National Assembly." )〕 Yang returned to South Korea in 1986 as a visiting professor at Seoul National University. Later that same year, he accepted a professorship at the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies at Kyung Hee University, where he was an academic dean until 1996. He gave up U.S. citizenship in 1989.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yang Sung-chul」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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