Kim Seong-kon

Kim Seong-kon (2014)
Kim Seong-kon
Hangeul	김성곤
Hanja	金聖坤
Revised Romanization	Gim Seong-gon
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Sŏng-gon
See also : Korean name

Kim Seong-kon (also known by its western name sequence: Seong-kon Kim; born August 9, 1949 ) is a South Korean scholar, literary critic , translator and writer . From 2012 to 2018 he was President of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea), which reports to the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism . Kim is also professor emeritus at Seoul National University , where he has received the “Distinguished Research Award” seven times.

Kim was also the editor of respected literary magazines such as B. in Literature & Thought , 21st Century Literature and Contemporary World Literature and has been writing columns for the Korea Herald since 2003 .

Life

education

Kim received his Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo under the direction of Leslie A. Fielder . He later transferred to Columbia University to there under Edward W. Said , author of the famous work Orientalism , comparative literature study. After completing the courses for his Ph.D. graduated, he joined the faculty of Seoul National University in 1984 .

academic career

Kim held several positions at Seoul National University . First he was director of the SNU Students Residence Hall (1987–1989), then dean of the Faculty of English (1999–2001), further dean of the Language Research Institute (2001) and dean of the SNU Language School (2001–2005). He was then director of the Seoul National University Press (2009–2011) and also president of the Association for Korean University Publishers (2010–2011).

From 1998 to 2001 Kim was president and founder of the "Korean Association for Literature and Film", from 2001 to 2003 he was president of the "International Association for Comparative Korean Studies", and from 2004 to 2005 he took over the chairmanship of the "Council for Development." and Promotion of the Korean Association for English Language and Literature ”, from 2004 to 2006 he served as President of the“ Korean Association for Modern English Fiction ”and from 2007 to 2008 he served as President of the“ Korean Association for English Studies ”.

Kim has taught as visiting professor at Pennsylvania State University , the University of California, Berkeley and Brigham Young University and has conducted research as a visiting scholar at Harvard Yenching Institute , the University of Oxford and the University of Toronto .

Kim was a research member of the "South Korean Presidential Committee on National Cohesion" and also chaired the "Advisory Committee for the Promotion of Korean Literature Abroad" at the Ministry of Culture. Kim has campaigned for the promotion of Korean literature abroad and is a member of the "Advisory Committee on Korean Literature" of White Pine Press in New York. At the same time, he is vice-president of the “Seoul Literature Society”, which consists of foreign ambassadors and high-ranking diplomats who are stationed in Seoul. Kim is also Honorary President of the South Korean Alumni Association of the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo.

He received the “CU Award for Outstanding Alumni” (2009), the “Fulbright Award for Outstanding Alumni” (2010) and the “SUNY Award for Outstanding International Alumni” (2012).

Professional career

Kim first introduced the debate on literary postmodernism in South Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He also did pioneering work in the field of post-colonialism and cultural studies in Korea. His works on postmodernism, postcolonialism, and cultural studies have particularly influenced Korean writers and scholars. In 2007, Kim received the prestigious Kim Hwantae Literature Prize for Criticism and in 2014 he was awarded the Wu-Ho Prize for Humanities .

Kim first worked as editor of the quarterly magazine Contemporary World Literature (1988–1988) and then as editor-in-chief of the monthly literary magazine Literature and Thought (2002–2005). He was also co-editor of 21st Century Literature and the Korea Journal , published by the Academy of Korean Studies .

As a self-proclaimed cultural diplomat, Kim gave regular classes to South Korean diplomats at the Institute for Foreign Affairs and National Security (1988–1994) and lectured extensively on Korean culture and society for foreign diplomats at KOICA (Korea International Cooperation Agency) and COTI (Central Officials Training Institute) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1997 to date).

Kim is also the vice-chairman of the Daesan Foundation's Seoul International Literature Forum. Kim was nominated by the Association of Korean Literary Critics as one of the "50 Representative Literary Critics in Korea since 1900". In 2016, the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism appointed Kim as chair of the Asia Cultural Forum and a member of the Korea-China Cultural Exchange Council. In the same year, he was offered the position as a part-time visiting professor at the National Human Resources Institute in the Department of Human Resources . The LTI Korea awarded Kim the “Plaque for Excellent Achievement” on behalf of the Management Assessment Team of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Kim was subsequently appointed a deputy minister on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' public diplomacy council.

Administrative positions

• Dean, LTI Korea Translation Academy, 2012–2015
• Director, Seoul National University Press, 2009–2011
• Dean, SNU Language School, 2001-2005
• Director, Department of English Studies, Seoul National University, 1999–2001
• Director, SNU Student Residence Hall, 1987–1989

Teaching and research abroad

• Guest lecturer, SUNY / Buffalo, 2011–2012
• Visiting Professor of Asian Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 2006
• Visiting Professor of Korean Literature, Brigham Young University, 1996–1997
• Visiting Professor of English Literature and Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University, 1990–1991 (as part of the Fulbright Asian Scholar-in-Residence Program)
• Visiting researcher (research associate), Harvard University Yenching Institute, 2006–2007
• Visiting Fellow, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1992
• Visiting Scholar, Oxford University, 1991
• Visiting Scholar, University of Toronto, 1991

Awards and grants

On January 25, 2013, Kim received the Badge of Honor for Cultural Achievement from the Czech Minister of Culture, HE Alena Hanáková

• La Orden del Mérito Civil (2018)
• Republic of Korea Jade Medal for Excellence (2014)
• Badge of Honor of the Czech Republic for Cultural Achievements (2013)
• Excellent Teaching Award, Korea Central Official Training Institute (2014)
• Korean Ministry of Culture Award for Best Director of Public Institution (2013)
• SUNY Prize for Excellent International Alumni (2012)
• Seoul National University, Award for Outstanding Research Achievement (1998, 1999, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
• Fulbright, Award for Outstanding Alumni (2010)
• CU, Award for Outstanding Alumni (2009)
• Seoul National University, Award for Best Director of an Institute (2003, 2004)
• Wu Ho Prize for Humanities (2014)
• Association for Korean Literary Criticism, Award for the 50 Best Literary Critics of the 20th Century (2014)
• National Academy of Natural Sciences, Prize for Best Books 2010: Literature in the Age of Mixed Cultures (2010)
• Kim Hwantae Literature Prize for Criticism (2008)
• USA Today, Book Prize for Interviews with American Writers (1985)
• Ministry of Culture, Book Prize of the Year (3 times)
• Award for the best literary criticism 2012, Literature and Game (2012)
• Award for the best book on literature and film, film essay (1992)
• Award for Representative Translators in Korea, Journal of Publications (1990)
• Award for Best Books in the 1990s, Film Essay, Kyobo
• Award for 24 Best Books on Foreign Literature since the Liberation of Korea: Words in the Labyrinth - Interviews with American Writers (1989)
• 1980s Representative Books Award: American Literature in the Postmodern Age (1989)
• Seoul National University, Board of Excellence (2001, 2011, 2014)
• Seoul National University, Award for Excellence (2004)
• Foreign scholarship from the Korea Research Foundation (1996–1997)
• British Council Scholarship for Oxford University (1991)
• University of Toronto Canadian Faculty Enrichment Scholarship (1991)
• Award for the Asian Scholar-in-Residence Program, Pennsylvania State University (1990–1991)
• Fulbright Scholarship (1978–1984)
• Seoul National University, International Research Fellowship at UC Berkeley and Harvard
• Award for excellent farewell speech (1967)
• Minister of Education Prize (1966)

Publications abroad

• Simple etiquette in Korea . Kent, UK: Paul Nobury (Curzon Press), 1988. Co-authored with O Young Lee (former Minister of Culture)
• Korea Briefing . Boulder: Associated University Press, 1991. (Chapter author)
• Crosscurrents in the Literatures of Asia and the West . Newark: Associated UP, 1997. (Chapter Author)
• Postmodernism in Asia . Tokyo: University of Tokyo, 2003 (chapter author)
• Intellectual History of Korea . Tokyo: Cuon Press, 2014 (chapter author)

Works

Works as an author

• Simple etiquette in Korea . Kent, UK: Paul Nobury (Curzon Press), 1988. Co-authored with O Young Lee (former Minister of Culture)
• 과거 로 의 여행. Journey into the past . Seoul: SNU Press (1985)
• 미로 속의 언어: 현대 미국 작가 와 의 대화. Languages ​​in the Labyrinth: In Conversation with American Writers . Seoul: Minumsa (1986)
• 탈 모더니즘 시대 의 미국 문학. American literature in the postmodern era . Seoul: SNU Press (1989)
• 미국 문학 과 작가 들의 초상. American literature and portraits of authors . Seoul: SNU Press (1993)
• 김성곤 교수 의 영화 에세이. Kim Seong-gon's film essays . Seoul: Yoleumsa (1994)
• 뉴미디어 시대 의 문학. Literature of the New Media Age . Seoul: Minumsa (1995)
• 문학 과 영화. Literature and film . Seoul: Minumsa (1996)
• 미국 현대 문학. Contemporary American Literature. Seoul: Minumsa (1996)
• 헐리웃: 20 세기 문화 의 거울. Hollywood: A Mirror of 20th Century Culture. Seoul: Woongjin (1996)
• 김성곤 의 영화 기행. Kim Seong-gon's journey through the world of film . Seoul: Hyohyung (2001)
• 다문화 시대 의 한국인. Korea in the age of multiculturalism. Seoul: Yoleumsa (2002)
• 퓨전 시대 의 새로운 문화 읽기. Reading a new culture in the age of fusion . Seoul: L&T (2003)
• 문화 연구 와 인문학 의 미래. The future of cultural and human sciences . Seoul: SNU Press (2003)
• 영화 속의 문화. Culture in film. Seoul: SNU Press (2003)
• 영화 로 보는 미국. America in Hollywood movies . Seoul: Sallim (2005)
• 에드가 앨런 포. Edgar Allan Poe . Seoul: Sallim (2005)
• JD 샐린저 와 호밀밭 의 파수꾼. JD Salinger and The Catcher in the Rye . Seoul: Sallim (2005)
• 사유 의 열쇠: 문학. The key to thinking: literature . Seoul: Mountain Press (2006)
• 글로벌 시대 의 문학. Literature in the Age of Globalization . Seoul: Mineumsa (2006)
• 하이브리드 시대 의 문학. Culture in the hybrid age. Seoul: SNU Press (2009)
• 경계 를 넘어서는 문학. Literature beyond borders . Seoul: Mineumsa (2013)

Works as editor

• The Death of the Novel and Postmodernism . Ed. Seong-Kon Kim. Attic Publishing Co.
• 100 Cultural Keywords in the 21st Century . Ed. Seong-Kon Kim. Research Institute of Korean Publications & Marketing
• Korean poetry . Co-editor, with Yong-jik Kim. KCAF Press (1987)
• Journey to Mujin: Collection of Modern Korean Fiction . Co-edited with Yongjik Kim. KCAF Press (1988)
• 21st Century Literary Movements . Ed. Seong-Kon Kim. Literature & Thought Publishing Co.

Works as a translator

From Korean to English

• Strong Winds at Mishi Pass . New York: White Pine Press (2003). Poems of Hwang Tong-kyu, co-translator. Seong-Kon Kim, Dennis Maloney
• Woman on the terrace . New York: White Pine Press (2007).
• Poems of Moon Chung-hee . Co-translator. Seong-Kon Kim. Alec Gordon
• The Square . A novel by Choi In-hun. Translator Seong-Kon Kim. Urbana-Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press (2014).

From English to Korean

• The Crying of Lot 49 . Thomas Pynchon. Seoul: Minumsa.
• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket . Edgar Allan Poe. Golden Bough.
• Trout Fishing in America . Richard Brautig. Vichae.
• A farewell to arms . Ernest Hemingway. Sigongsa.
• In Our Time . Ernest Hemingway. Sigongsa
• Waiting for the end . Leslie A. Fiedler. Samsung.
• Primitivism . Michael Bell. SNU Press
• Love is a Fallacy: Collections of Postmodern Fiction . Borges et al. Woongjin.
• Selected Poems of Seamus Heaney . Seamus Heaney. Yeolumsa
• Culture and Imperialism . Edward W. Said. co-trans. Hanshin
• Postmodern Culture . Steven Corner. co-trans. Hanshin
• American Literary Criticism . Vincent Leitch. Co-trans. Hanshin.
• Mukarovsky's Poetics . Mukarovsky. Co-trans. Modern Literature Co.

Web links

Commons : Kim Seong-kon  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ History. In: LTI Korea. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
2. ^ Department of English Language and Literature Seoul National University
3. ↑ Articles by Kim Seong-kon. In: The Korea Herald. Retrieved November 27, 2019 . 
4. ↑ O Yun-gyeong: 김성곤 원장 <한국 문학 번역원>, SUNY 동문 상. In: Korea Daily. April 6, 2012, Retrieved November 28, 2019 (Korean). 
5. ↑ Kim Ji-yeong: '김환태 평론 문학상' 김성곤 교수. In: Dong-a Ilbo . September 14, 2007. Retrieved November 27, 2019 (Korean). 
6. ↑ 우호 인 문학상 조남현 · 황훈성 · 김성곤 교수 영예. In: JoongAng Ilbo . April 23, 2014. Retrieved November 27, 2019 (Korean). 
7. ↑ The SIFL Organizing Committee. In: Seoul International Forum for Literature. Accessed November 28, 2019 . 
8. ^ Order of the Civil Merit | Kim Seong-kon. In: oficinapuentecorea.wordpress.com. December 17, 2018, accessed November 27, 2019 (Spanish). 
9. ^ Seong-Kon Kim, PhD '84 & MA '81 - University at Buffalo. Retrieved March 22, 2017 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Seong-kon is the first name.