Obituary: Jong Sub Park, M.D., 1932 to 2016

Professor Jong Sub Park (Figure) was a truly passionate man, motivating and influencing others. Unfortunately, in 2016, Professor Park passed away, and we lost one of our greatest plastic surgeons. continued on with a fellowship in the Department of Plastic Surgery for two years at the same hospital. In 1975, Professor Park passed the first plastic surgery specialty exam and became a specialist in plastic surgery. In 1978, he became the first head of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Soonchunhyang University Hospital. He then served as the 14th Chair of the Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons in 1991 and as the Director of Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital in 1995. The legacy of Professor Jong Sub Park runs parallel with the history of plastic surgery in Korea. In the summer of 1973, the fundamental construction work for Soonchunhy-ang, one of the largest hospitals in Korea at that time, was in progress in Hannam-Dong in Seoul. Professor Park visited the Seoul Soonchunhyang Hospital construction site, and his relationship with Soonchunhyang was established soon after. Generally, Professor Park had a relaxed personality, but he was notorious for being very strict when it came to education. Residents who received training from Professor Park confess they could not even look Professor Park straight in the eye. Professor Park would pour questions out to the residents in the operating room, and if he did not hear a satisfactory answer, he would sigh and the entire room would tense up. Despite the intense tension he stirred up in students, he was known to be a warm, kind-hearted physician when it came to patient care. There is a famous story about Professor Park. There was a patient who created a scene by complaining and yelling during clinic hours. Professor Park invited the patient to his office and talked with the patient. To ev-eryone's surprise, the patient became very polite and left without causing any more problems. There were multiple times when similar events took place with various patients. Even to this day, no one knows what happened or what was discussed in Professor Park's office with those patients.