By Kang Shin-who
Staff Reporter
Lee Ik-hoon, founder of the Lee Ik-hoon Language Institute, died of prostate cancer on Saturday at age 61.
Born in 1947, he began gaining popularity as an English lecturer after publishing a series of TOEIC and TOEFL books named after him in the middle of 1990s.
After obtaining a bachelor’s degree at Yonsei University and master's at the West Coast University in Los Angeles, he earned a doctorate in English Literature on ``A Study on strategic teaching methods to effectively improve capability of listening English’’ at Dankook University in 2006.
Lee was diagnosed with cancer shortly before getting the doctorate, according to family members. Recently his health deteriorated rapidly though he continued actively contributing articles to newspapers and giving lectures, they said.
He was listed in the Marquis Who’s Who, a number of directories containing brief biographies of influential people, as a special educator.
He is survived by his wife and two sons. A condolence book is open in Samsung Medical Center in Ilwon-dong, Seoul. For more information, call 02-3410-6915.