MONTGOMERY K. HYUN

HYUN MONTGOMERY K. HYUN Beloved husband of nearly 60 years to Ariel Hollinshead Hyun and former Chief Judge of the Federal Trade Commission, died on August 3, 2016 in New Jersey at the age of 94. He was surrounded by his family. Born on June 19, 1922, Hyun spent an idyllic childhood in Anju in the northern part of Korea before the country was occupied and separated. He obtained a diploma from Seoul College of Economics in 1942, but went into hiding to avoid Japanese forced labor camps. When General McArthur''s soldiers liberated South Korea from the Japanese in 1945, Hyun weighed less than 100 pounds and was suffering from malnutrition and scurvy. He was employed by the newly established U.S. Army Military Government as an interpreter and later advanced to the position of Chief Korean Political Analyst of its civilian administration. In 1947, Hyun came to the United States on a U.S. Army troop ship in order to continue his education. A scholar by nature, he attended Swarthmore College, where he met his future wife, Ariel, and in 1949, earned a bachelors degree in political science. Hyun earned a masters degree in public law and government from Columbia University in 1952 and law degree from Georgetown University in 1956. Of those years, he once said, "I left Swarthmore aspiring for an academic career, but in my two years at Columbia I discovered Pound, Cardozo, Brandeis, and Holmes, and decided to become an American lawyer." Throughout the Korean War, Hyun provided services as a language announcer for the Voice of America. In 1960, he became a U.S. citizen and was admitted to the District of Columbia bar. He worked first for the law firm of Covington & Burling and then as a trial attorney for the Federal Trade Commission, where he prosecuted corporate merger and trade restraint cases and defended FTC decisions before the U.S Court of Appeals. He was appointed Administrative Law Judge in 1973 and served as Chief Judge from 1987 to 1990. Hyun believed strongly in antitrust law and was known as a fair, thorough, and wise arbiter. Some of his cases, including three related analgesic cases and a free speech case involving smoking claims, drew nation wide attention. Throughout his life, Hyun loved nature, art, and classical music, and enjoyed studying political and moral philosophers of the east and west. He was an avid reader and a skilled calligrapher, and remained intellectually engaged and physically active until his last days. He will be remembered by many for his wry sense of humor and unfailing manners. He is survived by his wife, Ariel, professor emerita, Department of Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center; son William Hyun, San Francisco, CA; son and daughter-in-law, Christopher Hyun and Maria Pallante-Hyun, Washington, DC; grandchildren, Stephanie, Isabella and Spenser Hyun; and numerous devoted and beloved nieces and nephews in the United States and Korea. Services private. Cards and notes may be sent care of Ariel Hollinshead Hyun, Medford Leas, Medford, NJ 08055. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Medford Friends Meeting, 14 Union Street, Medford, NJ 08055. Condolences can be emailed at: www.lechnerfuneralhome.comwww.lechnerfuneralhome.com