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Ho Chong (Korean: 허정; Hanja: 許政; April 8, 1896 – September 18, 1988) was a South Korean politician and Korean independence activist who served as the sixth Prime Minister of South Korea during the country's Second Republic.
Dr Ho Kong Chong is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. Trained as an urban sociologist at the University of Chicago, Dr Ho’s research interests are in the political economy of cities, urban communities, higher education, and youth.
Trained as an urban sociologist at the University of Chicago, Associate Professor Ho Kong Chong’s research interests are in neighbourhood and community development, heritage and place-making, the political economy of cities as well as a more recent interest in higher education.
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- Musical Career
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Ho was born in Singapore in 1933. He has been interested in playing the harmonica since young. In 1948, he joined the Donghua Harmonica Band. He started playing the violin in 1960 with the aim of learning advanced musical articulations and expressions that can be applied to the harmonica. He studied the violin with Paul Abisheganaden, a Singapore m...
Harmonica soloist
Ho established a harmonica quartetwith three other harmonica enthusiasts in 1952. The quartet gave frequent guest performances on radio and television. In 1962, Ho made his orchestra debut during his vacation in Singapore. He played The Concerto for Oboe and Strings composed by Domenico Cimarosa with Singapore's National Symphony Orchestra (now Singapore Symphony Orchestra) under the baton of the late Israeli conductor Shalom Ronli-Riklis. Upon his return from Europe to Singapore in 1975, Ho...
Music educator
Ho took an active role in the harmonica movement in Singapore. Passionate in promoting the instrument to local talents, he was a harmonica instructor for more than 10 Singapore schools and higher institutions with students ranging from primary school kids to university graduates. In 1981, Paul Abisheganaden, the Director of the National University of Singapore (NUS) Centre for Musical Activities (had been incorporated into the NUS Centre For the Arts) invited Ho to set up and direct NUS Harmo...
Asian Delights(1980). Alan Ang and Jimmy Chan, arrangerChinese A La Carte(1981). Jimmy Chan, pianist; Alan Ang and Jimmy Chan, arrangerAsian Delights II(1984)Chinese Delights(1987)Ho promoted the harmonica over the radio and television. In 1978, he gave 26 solo programmes of “Music on Harmonica” for the Radio Corporation of Singapore.
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DR HO KONG CHONGASSOCIATE PROFESSORDEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY. Appointment: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR. Office: AS1/03-09. Email: ho_kc@nus.edu.sg. Tel: Fax:
Kong Chong Ho. BIO. Trained as an urban sociologist at the University of Chicago, Associate Professor Ho Kong Chong’s research interests are in neighbourhood and community development, heritage and place-making, the political economy of cities as well as a more recent interest in higher education.
