Astronomer Chou Kyong-chol, 81, nicknamed by Koreans as "Dr. Apollo" passed away on Saturday after falling into a coma at Yonsei Severance Hospital in Seoul. Chou, who was suffering heart failure, is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter. Kim, a former chairman of the Korea Astronomical Society, was most noted here for his popularisation of astronomy by giving the public easy explanations of aerospace terms in lectures and on TV. Read more