S. Korean student Samaritan had grad school dreams

TOKYO - Lee Su Hyon (photo taken on Mt. Fuji climb) was contemplating returning to South Korea this summer to attend graduate school after a year and a half of language studies in Japan. But the 26-year-old was struck and killed by a commuter train on Tokyo's Yamanote loop line Jan. 26 as he and a Japanese photographer tried to rescue a drunken man who had fallen onto the tracks.

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