Yong Pil Rhee (December 10, 1932 – March 23, 2004) was a Korean

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and professor and chairman of the board of trustees at the

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, South Korea. He was one of the first systems theorists, who demonstrated that the

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is dynamic and experiences change.

Biography

Yong Pil Rhee received a B.A. from

Yonsei University Yonsei University () is a Private university, private Christian university, Christian research university located in Seoul, South Korea. Yonsei is one of the three most prestigious universities in the country, part of a group referred to as SK ...

in 1957, and a M.A. in 1959. He was a professor at Konkuk University however decided to continue his education abroad. In 1968 he received a M.A. from

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, and in 1974 a PhD. from the

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under

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with the thesis "Breakdown of Authority Structure in Korea in 1960: A Systems Approach", a case study of the failure of concerted feedback. American Political Science Association (1968). ''PS.''. University of Michigan. Page 4. He became professor at the

later in 1979. In the mid-1990s Rhee also worked for the International Systems Institute. Yong Pil Rhee served as the president of the Korean Society for Systems Science Research, the

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(1996), and the

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(IFSR) from 1998 to 2002. He was also a member of the editorial board of the journal ''

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'', and of the International Advisory Board of the "Systems Thinking: Four-Volume Set": a systems science reference for all libraries of business, management and organization studies.

Publications

Rhee wrote several books, articles and papers. A selection: * 1982. ''Breakdown of Authority Structure in Korea in 1960: A Systems Approach ''. Univ of Hawaii. * 1996. ''Complex systems model of South-North Korean integration''. Edited. Seoul : Seoul National University Press. * 1997. ''Systems Thinking, Globalization of Knowledge, and Communitarian Ethics''. Edited with Kenneth D. Bailey. Proceedings of the International Society for the Systems Sciences International Conference. Seoul, Korea. * 1998. ''Complexity of Korean Unification Process: System Approach''. Seoul: Seoul National University Press, * 1999. ''Dynamics and Complexity of Political System''. Seoul, Korea:. Ingansarang Press. * 2003. ''Chaos and order through fluctuations in global capitalism in the twenty-first century''
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References

External links

GLOBAL CRISIS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Yong Pil Rhee, President of the IFSR 1998.

with a picture of Yong Pil Rhee.
CHAOS AND ORDER THROUGH FLUCTUATIONS IN GLOBAL CAPITALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
(abstract) {{DEFAULTSORT:Rhee, Yong Pil 1933 births 2004 deaths Northwestern University alumni Academic staff of Seoul National University South Korean social scientists Systems scientists University of Chicago alumni Yonsei University alumni 20th-century South Korean scientists 21st-century South Korean scientists Presidents of the International Society for the Systems Sciences