Shin Young-Jeon, Park Se-Hong
Department of Preventive Health, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Uisahak. 2009 Jun;18(1):69-90.
RO Kishun was born on February 2, 1893 in Ongjin County, Hwanghae Province of Joseon Korea. He graduated from the Medical Training Center, a campus associated with the Joseon Government-General Hospital, in 1915, and from Kyushu Imperial University School of Medicine in 1917. He continued his medical study at the university in 1929, majoring in biochemistry, and earned a doctorate in medicine in 1932. Dr. RO, one of the earliest pioneers in Korean biochemistry, was active in his research, publishing four studies in the Japanese Journal of Biochemistry between 1931 and 1932. After returning from Japan in 1932, Dr. RO opened a medical practice in Mokpo and Busan, port cities situated on the southern tip of Korea. Later in 1936, he moved north to Manchuria (northeast China) to practice medicine at the International Hospital in Mukden (present-day Shenyang). He also served as president of Tumen Public Hospital between 1942 and 1946. When Japan signed unconditional surrender bringing World War II to an end, Dr. RO relocated to Yanbian and began providing medical training to ethnic Koreans. In October 1946, he was appointed dean of the First Branch School of China Medical University in Longjing, and in October 1948 the first dean of Yanbian Medical School, the predecessor of Yanbian University College of Medicine. Dr. RO dedicated his life to medical practice, teaching and training students, and mentoring younger faculty. A brilliant clinician, he also inspired and helped his colleagues with his outstanding ability to diagnose and treat patients. He was one of the founding members of Yanbian University College of Medicine. RO Kishun died on June 7, 1957 at age 64. Ethnic Koreans hailed him as Sinui (literally, the physician of God), and a bronze statue of himself was erected in front of the medical college in 1988. Dr. RO's life brings modern historians' attention to the issue of determining geographical territories and nationality, in that his life unfolded at the borderlands or frontiers of Joseon Korea, China, and Japan, where the history of the three nations met and intermingled with one another. He was a biochemist and researcher, practicing physician and medical professor of the era under Japanese Rule and the one following it. In modern Korean medicine, his life is viewed as a history of the borders, or a transnational legacy going beyond individual history of Korea, China, and Japan.
卢基舜于1893年2月2日出生在朝鲜黄海道瓮津郡。1915年，他毕业于朝鲜总督府医院附属的医学培训中心，1917年毕业于九州帝国大学医学院。1929年，他继续在该校深造，主修生物化学，并于1932年获得医学博士学位。卢博士是朝鲜生物化学领域最早的先驱之一，他积极投身研究，在1931年至1932年间在《日本生物化学杂志》上发表了四项研究成果。1932年从日本回国后，卢博士在韩国最南端的港口城市木浦和釜山开设了诊所。1936年晚些时候，他北上满洲（中国东北），在奉天（今沈阳）的国际医院行医。1942年至1946年期间，他还担任图们公立医院院长。日本签署无条件投降书，第二次世界大战结束后，卢博士迁至延边，开始为朝鲜族提供医学培训。1946年10月，他被任命为龙井的中国医科大学第一分校校长，1948年10月成为延边医学院（延边大学医学院的前身）的首任院长。卢博士一生致力于医疗实践、教学和培养学生，指导年轻教师。作为一名杰出的临床医生，他以出色的诊断和治疗能力激励并帮助同事。他是延边大学医学院的创始成员之一。卢基舜于1957年6月7日去世，享年64岁。朝鲜族称他为“神医”（字面意思是上帝的医生），1988年在医学院前竖立了他的铜像。卢博士的一生引起了现代历史学家对地理领土和国籍问题的关注，因为他的一生在朝鲜、中国和日本的边境地区展开，这三个国家的历史在那里交汇并相互交织。他是日本统治时期及之后的生物化学家和研究员、执业医生和医学教授。在现代韩国医学中，他的一生被视为一部边境史，或是超越韩国、中国和日本各自历史的跨国遗产。
