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Won Pyong-oh

Won Pyong-oh is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Won Pyong-oh rather than just read about it. In short: Won Pyong-oh (May 19, 1929 – April 9, 2020) was a South Korean zoologist, known particularly for his work on Korean birds. He was the son of noted North Korean ornithologist Won Hong-gu (1888–1970).

Key takeaways

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Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Won Pyong-oh to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Won Pyong-oh from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Won Pyong-oh (May 19, 1929 – April 9, 2020) was a South Korean zoologist, known particularly for his work on Korean birds. He was the son of noted North Korean ornithologist Won Hong-gu (1888–1970). He published approximately 120 papers on Korean ornithology. He also published about 10 book-length studies of Korean zoology, although none have been translated into English.

Biography Born in Kaesong, Won began his college education in North Korea, graduating from Wonsan Agricultural College (원산농업대학) in 1950 with a degree in animal husbandry and joined there for work. With the outbreak of the Korean War in that year, he escaped to the South with a brother, while his parents and one brother remained in the North. Pyong-oh worked as a veterinary lieutenant on the front and he left military service in 1956 as a captain and joined the South Korean Department of Agriculture. He obtained a second degree in biology from Kyunghee University in 1959 and moved to Hokkaido working on a doctoral thesis that he received from Sapporo University in 1961. He was appointed to a permanent position at the Kyung Hee University and in 1962 he went to Yale to work under Sidney Dillon Ripley. He became a full professor of zoology in May 1969. He headed the South Korean Society for Nature Conservation from 1992. In 1965, a Daurian starling ringed by Won in Seoul was found and reported by his father. This was the first contact between the two men after they were separated by the war. He managed to smuggle a letter to his father through the assistance of Soviet ornithologist Leonid Portenko. In 2002, Won was finally granted permission to visit the North, although his parents and brother were then dead. Founded Kyunghee University Natural History Museum in 1978. As of 2006, Won was professor emeritus at Kyunghee University. He died on April 9, 2020.

References

Further reading Foster-Carter, Aidan. "Pyongyang Watch: Free as a bird?". Asia Times. Archived from the original on 2002-09-11. (in Korean) Pascal Encyclopedia entry (Yahoo) (in Korean) News Archived 2016-04-10 at the Wayback Machine

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Won Pyong-oh

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Won Pyong-oh claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Won Pyong-oh before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Won Pyong-oh ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Won Pyong-oh

In research: Won Pyong-oh appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Won Pyong-oh in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Won Pyong-oh is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1929 births, 2020 deaths, Korean ornithologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Won Pyong-oh outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Won Pyong-oh in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Won Pyong-oh matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Won Pyong-oh?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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