Koo Chen-fu

Koo Chen-fu (Chinese: 辜振甫; pinyin: Gū Zhènfǔ, 6 January 1917 – 3 January 2005) was a Taiwanese businessman and diplomat. He led the Koos Group of companies from 1940 until his death. As a chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), Koo arranged the first direct talks between Taiwan and mainland China since 1949 and served as Taiwan's negotiator in both the 1993 and 1998 Wang-Koo summit.

He was also a film producer and produced a number of Taiwanese films between 1973 and 1982, such as Love, Love, Love (1974), Eight Hundred Heroes (1975), Heroes of the Eastern Skies (1977), and Attack Force Z (1982).

Early life

Born in northern Taiwan into a wealthy family headed by his father Koo Hsien-jung, Koo attended Taihoku Imperial University (now National Taiwan University). He inherited a substantial fortune and a business when his father Koo Hsien-jung died in 1937 while Koo was only a sophomore. Koo graduated in 1940 and pursued a graduate degree in Japan.

Koo was jailed in 1946 for 19 months on treason charges for helping Japanese. After his release, he took refuge in Hong Kong and only returned to Taiwan in 1949 to marry his wife, Cecilia Koo. He focused on running Koos Group as well as on his political career that led to his elevation to the central committee of Kuomintang.

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Taiwan in Time: Sedition or a groundless verdict?

Taipei Times 21 Jul 2018

Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫) only discussed the incident once in public ... After the conclusion of what would later be known as the historic Koo-Wang Talks, Chen continued to question Koo, finally bringing up the subject Koo had preferred to avoid ... Chen’s camp had been trying to ... Chen’s questioning about the 1946 incident finally rattled the usually stoic Koo....

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MAC urges precondition-free cross-strait dialogue

Taipei Times 27 Apr 2018

The Koo-Wang talks refer to a meeting that took place from April 27 to April 29, 1993, in Singapore between then-Straits Exchange Foundation chairman Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫) and his Chinese counterpart, then-Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits chairman Wang Daohan (汪道涵) ... The second Koo-Wang talks were held in China from Oct....

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Taiwan in Time: Historic meeting in the southern seas

Taipei Times 21 Apr 2018

From April 27 to April 29, 1993, then-Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF, 海峽交流基金會) chairman Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫) and his Chinese counterpart Wang Daohan (汪道涵) met in Singapore ... Even so, Koo and Wang were able to meet one more time in Shanghai in 1998, but after that there would be no more meetings between the two organizations until 2008 when Ma became president ... In August, Wang sent a letter to Koo inviting him again....

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Mainland stresses "1992 Consensus" as anniversary of landmark cross-Strait meeting approaches

People Daily 11 Apr 2018

"The Singapore meeting between Wang Daohan, then head of the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), and Koo Chen-fu, then chairman of the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), in April 1993 was a historic attempt to replace confrontation with dialogue ......

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History destroyed by paper shredders

Taipei Times 12 Mar 2018

In a video recorded in the US last week, Koo said that the league’s assets should be donated in their entirety to the state ... It is not difficult to guess who the “people of higher authority” might be, especially when there are few candidates so close to, and on such friendly terms with, the late Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫), one of Taiwan’s richest businessmen and a former chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation....

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Half of women’s league’s assets missing: source

Taipei Times 14 Feb 2018

The committee found that some of the league’s funds have gone to its affiliated foundations, as well as foundations formed by the family of the late Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫), a former chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation ... According to a report by the Chinese-language media outlet Up Media, the league had donated a total of NT$1.92 billion to the Koo ......

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Taiwan in Time: The last governor-general

Taipei Times 30 Dec 2017

Jan. 1 to Jan. 7. On April 19, 1946, Rikichi Ando, the former final governor-general of Taiwan, was found dead in his holding cell in Shanghai ... 25, 1945. On Jan ... But there are a few interesting incidents that are worth exploring ... INDEPENDENCE ATTEMPT ... One of them was businessman Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫), who would become a prominent KMT member in the future and represented Taiwan in the historic 1993 cross-strait Koo-Wang talks (辜汪會談) in Singapore....

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Historic mansion to undergo repairs

Taipei Times 12 Dec 2017

In 1912, colonial coal magnate Chien A-niu (簡阿牛) celebrated his self-made fortune by building a baroque-style mansion in what is today Dasi District (大溪) in Taoyuan, with the name Chien Cheng Trading Co (建成商行) on its facade ... Its baroque style was replicated in many other colonial buildings, including the Presidential Office Building and the Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫) family’s ancestral residence in Changhua County’s Lukang Township (鹿港) ... ....

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China’s new era opens up a chance for change: Tsai

Taipei Times 26 Oct 2017

... talks in the 1990s and 23 agreements inked by the two sides from 2008 to last year,” Tsai said, referring to two historical meetings between then-Straits Exchange Foundation chairman Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫) and Wang Daohan (汪道涵), then-chairman of China’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, in Singapore in 1993 and Shanghai in 1998....

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The N. Korea Nuclear Threat Is Real. But It’s Not Nuking the U.S. Homeland

Newsweek 18 Aug 2017

This article first appeared on the Brookings Institution site ... But what is the danger, specifically? Many people aren’t clear. Daily Emails and Alerts - Get the best of Newsweek delivered to your inbox ... Yet how it intends to do that is unclear ... STR/AFP/Getty ... Armacost Chair and Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies, and is co-director, with Mireya Solís, of its Center for East Asia Policy Studies (CEAP) ... ....

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Hearing called over Women’s League

Taipei Times 18 Feb 2017

Cecilia Koo, 91, wife of the late Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫), who was one of the richest businessmen in Taiwan and served as Straits Exchange Foundation chairman, said the league is not affiliated with the KMT and asked how charity work has anything to do with party affiliations ... Cecilia Koo said the league is “rich” because she was married to Koo Chen-fu, who helped the league invest wisely before he died in 2005....

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Taiwanese cement scion Leslie Koo dies in fall

South China Morning Post 24 Jan 2017

Leslie Koo Cheng-yun, the son of Taiwan’s late top negotiator with the mainland, Koo Chen-fu, died on Monday morning after stumbling down a flight of stairs at a plush hotel in Taipei on Saturday night. He was 62 ... Taiwan Cement Corp group, of which Leslie Koo was chairman, confirmed his death after doctors announced the news... ....

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Leslie Koo dies from injuries suffered in fall

Taipei Times 23 Jan 2017

TCC Group (台泥集團) chairman Leslie Koo (辜成允) died early yesterday of severe head injuries sustained in a fall down a flight of stairs at a Taipei hotel on Saturday night. Taiwan Cement Corp (台灣水泥), the flagship subsidiary of TCC Group, announced that Koo, 62, had died at 6.20am ... He was the second son of Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫), a former chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation, who died in 2005 at the age of 88....

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