DONG HYUN KANG

Dong Hyun Kang
Republic of Korea

27 August 2018

Will Fitzhugh
The Concord Review
730 Boston Post Road, Suite 24
Sudbury, Massachusetts 01776 USA


Dear Mr. Fitzhugh,

This is Dong Hyun Kang, who received an Emerson Prize for the history paper, “Creation of Hangul” a few months back.

It is really my honor and pleasure to get such a positive evaluation from a highly respected institution like yours. 

I would like to inform you that I have received your check for $1,000 as well. After thinking about how I should spend the money, I have ultimately decided to donate it to The Concord Review.

While I fully understand that you have intended the money to be used for my purpose, I would like to contribute to helping inspire other high school historians to academic excellence, which is the very goal of The Concord Review.

My experience of writing “Creation of Hangul” by itself has been very rewarding, for it has allowed me to attain a new level of sophisticated thinking regrading critical analysis and synthesis of historical events and phenomena.

Once again, I cannot express my gratitude enough for the uniquely high distinction you have accorded me.

Cordially,

Dong Hyun Kang
[Seoul International School, Class of 2018
Oxford University, 2021]