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Cho Seung-bog was born in 1922 by Korean parents in Manchuria. Cho exhibited his academic talent early in his life. He was able to continue his schooling so successfully that he received a scholarship to study in Japan. Korea had been occupied by Japan since 1910 and every year a few Koreans were sent to Japan for education so that they could later work in the Japanese colonial administration. In 1939 he graduated from high school in Kando(Chinetao) and moved to Tokyo, where he studied at the First National High School and later the Tokyo Imperial University. He graduated in 1945, majoring in Western philosophy, and worked for a period as translator for the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, the administration that ruled Japan after its surrender in August 1945. He left his job in 1947 to begin his doctoral studies in philosophy. He was soon offered the chance to continue his studies in the United States by an American Christian Organization and accepted this offer, moved to the United States Cho Seung-bog was born in 1922 by Korean parents in Manchuria. Cho exhibited his academic talent early in his life. He was able to continue his schooling so successfully that he received a scholarship to study in Japan. Korea had been occupied by Japan since 1910 and every year a few Koreans were sent to Japan for education so that they could later work in the Japanese colonial administration. In 1939 he graduated from high school in Kando(Chinetao) and moved to Tokyo, where he studied at the First National High School and later the Tokyo Imperial University. He graduated in 1945, majoring in Western philosophy, and worked for a period as translator for the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, the administration that ruled Japan after its surrender in August 1945. He left his job in 1947 to begin his doctoral studies in philosophy. He was soon offered the chance to continue his studies in the United States by an American Christian Organization and accepted this offer, moved to the United States and took up his studies during the spring term 1948. Later he began his postgraudate studies at the University of Minnesota. When the Korean War broke out in June 1950, Cho felt it was his duty as a Korean patriot to oppose the war in which U.S.A. actively participated against North Korea. His antiwar speeches and lectures were not acceptable to US authorities and eventually his visa was not renewed. Expelled from the United States he arrived in Sweden in January 1952 via Oslo by help of members of the U.S. Norwegian and Swedish sections of the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom. In Sweden he met not only those who helped this stateless refugee to come to Scandinavia but also a number of renowned scholars. He decided soon to settle down in the university town of Uppsala. He was advised by them to switch his academic career from Western philosophy to linguistics, especially studies of East Asian languages and culture. Cho's scholarly progress was remarkable. He began to teach Japanese, Chinese and Korean in 1957 at Uppsala University, and he finally became Sweden's first professor of Japanese Studies at Stockholm University in 1975. While he pursued his academic works, he was also engaged in antiwar peace movement aiming at the national unification of the divided Koreas during the Cold War period. Since the middle of 1950s he attended the annual conference of the World Peace held in Stockholm. Furthermore Cho kept politically nonaligned position toward North and South Korea. Even though he visited South Korea in 1969 and North Korea in 1970 by the invitation of the respective governments, there was no change in his neutral attitude. However, in order to promote democratization in South Korea he initiated a campaign both in Japan and Europe to save Kim Dae-jung kidnapped from Tokyo to Seoul in 1973 by KCIA, and the poet Kim Chi-ha sentenced to death by the dictatorship in the South in 1974. Cho's lifelong dream was to build up a free democratic modern society on the basis of the homogeneous national language and traditional culture in his motherland. Unfortunately his wish for a peaceful unification on the Korean peninsula seemed to be hardly realized in the near future. So in 1992 he had established in cooperation with South Korean scholars Dongchuhoe that meant a recovery movement of the linguistic and cultural homogeneity of North and South Korea, which resulted in no fruit. Ever since the Korean War any free discussion on peaceful unification had been prohibited untill 1980s. In 1988, 38 years later after being thrown out of the United States he visited Los Angeles, Kansas, Washington, Boston, New York and delivered lectures at colleges and universities on the Korean unification. "I was born to a Korean family, but never lived in Korea. Culturally I am familiar with Japan and after having lived in Sweden and France for many years I feel like being a European now." In spite of such a complex identity Cho kept his constant love of the motherland Korea until he died in 2012.