<div dir="auto">Sorry to find an active IP fighter has left us.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 12 May, 2021, 10:38 am 김선, <<a href="mailto:sunkim@health.re.kr">sunkim@health.re.kr</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues,<div><br></div><div>It is our deepest sorrow that our colleague Heesob Nam (1966-2021), a South Korean IP activist, passed away today 10 May 2020.</div><div><br></div><div>I believe many of you have been his longstanding friends or colleagues. <br></div><div><br></div><div>He had lived with cancer for the last several years but worked even harder and more passionate to reform the IP regime locally and globally. During the last months, he drafted the resolution supporting the TRIPS waiver proposal and the patent law amendment for the Korean National Assembly and mobilized legislators to propose these. He had also organized series of webinars on the political economy of TRIPS and TRIPS-plus in the COVID-19 era to which some of you had been invited. </div><div><br></div><div></div><div>He was a legendary IP activist, with a tireless drive for social change. It is our great loss. <br></div><div>We will continue the movement that Heesob helped to chart. </div><div><br></div><div>Sun Kim</div><div>On behalf of South Korean civil society</div><div><br></div><div>Heesob Nam (1966-2021) <a href="https://www.facebook.com/heeseob.nam" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Facebook</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/heesob" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Twitter</a></div><div>Representative and chief researcher, <a href="http://knowledgecommune.net/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Knowledge Commune</a><br>Director, Commons Foundation<br></div><div>Former Director, Opennet</div><div>Former Director, IPLeft</div><div>Took lead in the movement for anti-KORUS FTA and anti-RCEP</div><div>Took lead in the CL application for access to Gleevec and access to Fuzeon</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12px">---</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12px">김선, 보건경제학박사</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12px">시민건강연구소 건강정책연구센터장</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12px">민중건강운동 동남아시아태평양 지역 코디네이터</span><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:12px"> </span></font></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><div>Sun Kim, M.S., Ph.D.</div><div>Director, Health Policy Research Center, People's Health Institute (PHI) South Korea</div><div>PHI <a href="http://health.re.kr/?page_id=35" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">blog</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/phikorea" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/phikorea/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Facebook</a> <a href="http://health.re.kr/?page_id=35" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"></a> <br></div><div><div>Regional coordinator, People's Health Movement (PHM) South East Asia & Pacific (SEAP)</div><div><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12px">PHM Global <a href="https://phmovement.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">blog</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/PHMglobal" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/peopleshealthmovement/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Facebook</a> / </span></font><span>PHM Korea </span><a href="http://phmovement.or.kr/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">blog</a><span>, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/PHM_korea" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Twitter</a><span>, </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/PHMKorea/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Facebook</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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