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Dr. Hamid Choi: First native Korean to translate Quran
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Dr. Hamid Choi: First native Korean to translate Quran

Dr. Hamid Choi Yong Kil is the first native Korean person to translate Quran and Sahih Bukhari into the Korean language. This whole translation took a time period of seven years. Apart from his services in the translation of Quran, Dr Hamid Choi is also a teacher of Islamic studies and Arabic at the University of South Korea Dr. Hamid Choi, a native Korean and a Islamic studies teacher, went onto translate the Quran in Korean language. This made Dr. Hamid, the first native Korean to do so. The whole tasks was difficult and time consuming and took him around 7 years. Alongside the Quran, Dr Hamid Choi also translated the 'Sahih Bukhari' which is a book of hadith. These contributions by Dr Hamid Choi surely are big. Now a big percentage of Koreans will be able to better understand...