By Sungsoo Kim Ham Sok Hon and the Philosophical Taoism of Lao-tzu and Chaung-tzu Abstract Ham Sok Hon (1901-1989) is little known outside Korea. However, within Korea he has been given several descriptive names through his life: "Conscience of Korea", "Prophet in the Era of Suffering" and "Crying in the Wilderness". As these names imply, he was a religious thinker, civil rights activist and pr..