Professor Chin Woo Kim

EDUCATION

• 1958. BA in English, Yonsei University, Seoul (summa cum laude)
• 1962. BA in English, Washington State University, WA (cum laude)
• 1964. MA in Linguistics, University of California--Los Angeles
• 1966. Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California--Los Angeles

EMPLOYMENT

• 1958-61. Instructor of English. Korea Air Force Academy, Seoul
• 1967-69. Assistant Professor of Linguistics, UIUC
• 1969-72. Associate Professor, UIUC
• 1972-present. Professor of Linguistics, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Speech & Hearing Sciences, and English as an International Language, UIUC

ADMINISTRATION

• 1971-72, Spring 1992. Acting Head, Department of Linguistics, UIUC
• 1974-76. Director, Illinois-Tehran Research Center, Tehran, Iran
• 1979-86. Chair, Department of Linguistics, UIUC
• 1990-91. Director, Program in East Asian Studies, UIUC
• 1993-94. Director, Illinois Year-in-Japan Program, Kobe, Japan

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS

• 1972-73, 1986-87. Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaii-Manoa
• 1974-76. Institute of English, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
• 1983-84. Department of English, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
• 1993-94. Faculty of Humanities, Konan University, Kobe, Japan
• 1995-96. Department of Linguistics, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

HONORS

• 1964-65. University Fellow, UCLA
• 1965-66. Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies
• 1966-67. Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT
• 1977. Associate Director, Linguistic Institute, Linguistic Society of America
• 1977-80. President, International Circle of Korean Linguistics
• 1983-84. Associate Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, UIUC
• Aug. 1995. Designated by the Academy of Korean Studies as one of 50 Outstanding Korean Scholars Abroad [A part of commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of Korea]

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• Linguistic Society of America
• Linguistic Society of Korea (Han'guk Ono-hakhoe)
• Korean Language Research Society (Han'gul-hakhoe)
• Association of Korean Linguistics (Gugo-hakhoe)
• International Circle of Korean Linguistics
• International Association for Korean Language Education
• International Society of Phonetic Sciences
• Phonetic Society of Japan
• Phonetic Society of Korea (Han'guk Umsong-hakhoe)
• International Society of Korean Studies (Kukche Koryo-hakhoe)
• Association for Asian Studies
• Korean Association of Speech Sciences

EDITORSHIPS & CONSULTANTSHIPS

• 1976-80. Book reviewer, American Speech and Hearing Association
• 1977-89. Book reviewer Studdies in Linguistic Sciences, UIUC
• 1978-80 & 86-87. Panel member, Linguistic Program, National Science Foundation
• 1982-84. Member, Fulbright Committee, Council on International Exchange of Scholars
• 1982-85. Editor, International Journal of Korean Linguistics, International Circle of Korean Linguistics
• 1982-86. Consulting Editor, Journal of East-Asian Languages, University of Hawaii-Manoa
• 1984-present. Consulting editor, Language Research, Institute of language Research, Seoul National University, Seoul
• 1984-present. Member, Advisory Board, Summer Institute of East Asian Languages, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
• 1988-92. Member, Executive Committee, International Conference on Korean Studies Abroad
• 1988-present. Advisor, International Circle of Korean Linguistics
• 1988-present. Member, Executive Committee, and Head, Division of Language and Linguistics, International Society for Korean Studies, Osaka, Japan
• 1989-91. Consultant, Division of Dictionaries, Longman Publishing House, London
• 1990-1995. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands
• 1995-present. Member, Editorial board, Studies in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, Linguistic Society of Korea
• 1995-present. Consultant to the English edition of Encyclopedia of the Korean Culture, Academy of Korean Studies, Seoul
• 1996-present. Member, SAT-II Korean Committee
• 1996-present. Senior Advisor, Korean Association of Speech Sciences

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED & WORKSHOPS CONDUCTED

• April 1970. The 1st Annual Conference on African Linguistics. UIUC
• August 1977. International Symposium on Korean Linguistics. Linguistic Society of America, University of Hawaii-Manoa
• November 1983. Workshop on Morphology in Generative Grammar. Linguistic Society of Korea, Kookmin University, Seoul
• July 1984. Workshop on CV Phonology. Linguistic Society of Korea, Yonsei University, Seoul
• July 1987. Workshop on Phonetics-Phonology Interface. Linguistic Society of Korea, Ewha Women's University, Seoul
• April 1990. A panel on Linguistic Change in Korean Society. Association for Asian Studies, Washington, D.C.
• July 1993. 7 panels on Language and Linguistics. International Conference on Transformation in the Korean Peninsula toward the 21st Century. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
• August 1993. Toward Linguistic Convergence between North and South Korea. International Society for Korean Studies, Beijing, China
• August 1997. Computerization and Modernization of Korean. International Society for Korean Studies, Osaka, Japan
• May 1-2, 1998. International Symposium on Literacy and Writing Systems in Asia, Part I. University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
• July 13-14, 1998. International Symposium on Literacy and Writing Systems in Asia, Part II. Korea University, Seoul, Korea

BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS

• 1969-. Directory of American Scholars. Jaques Cattell Press, ed., New York and London: R. R. Bowker Co. (p.212)
• 1972-. World Dictionary of Linguists
• 1973-. The World List of Phoneticians
• 1974-. Directory of International Biography
• 1975-. International Who's Who in Education
• 1975-. Who's Who in Midwest
• 1979-. Directory of Scholars in Korean Studies
• 1982-. Who's Who in America
• 1993. A Guide to Korean Studies in the United States. Craig S. Coleman, ed., The Korea Society, Los Angeles, CA (p.III-133)

COMMUNITY SERVICES

• 1970-84. Faculty Advisor, Korean Students Association, UIUC
• 1977-80. Chair, Mission and Ecumenical Affairs Committee, Wesley United Methodist Church, Urbana, IL
• 1987-92. President, Board of Directors, The Korean Language School, Urbana, IL
• 1988-90. Faculty advisor, Korean Undergraduate Students Association, UIUC
• 1991-93. Treasurer, The Korean Church of Champaign-Urbana, IL
• 1997-present. Board member, The William Orr Dingwall Foundation, San Francisco, CA
• 1998-. Editorial advisor, Chosun Koreana (A weekly publication for Koreans abroad). Los Angeles, CA

PUBLICATIONS (post-1987)

• 1988a. Sojourns in Language. [A collection of 50 articles in two volumes]. (contains three unpublished manuscripts, No. 34, No. 49, and No. 54). Seoul, Korea: Tower Press.
• 1988b. "Language, Literature and Music". In Linguistics in the Morning Calm II, pp. 199-223. Seoul, Korea: The Linguistic Society of Korea.
• 1989. Review of Sok-Yon Kim: "The Korean Script Han'gul: Its Principles and Universality". (in Korean) In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Korean Studies Abroad. New York, NY: Research Institute of World Affairs.
• 1990. "China's Minority Language Policies: With Special Reference to Korean". (in Korean) In Korean Societies Abroad and National Consciousness, pp. 242-253. New York, NY: Research Institute of World Affairs.
• 1991a. "Linguistic Divergence in Korea". (in Korean) In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Korean Studies Abroad, pp. 415-433. New York, NY: Research Institute of World Affairs.
• 1991b. "Acoustic Phonetics". In Kirsten Malmkjaer ed.: The Linguistic Encyclopedia, pp. 1-10. London and New York: Routledge.
• 1991c. "consonant Simplification in Korean Revisited: A Moraic Account". With Seok Keun Kang. In Proceedings of Formal Linguistic Society of Midamerica II.
• 1991d. "Han'guk-mal and Choson-mal: The Background, Reality and Cause of the Divergence". (in Korean) Maal [Speech] 15.35-48. Seoul, Korea: Yonsei University
• 1991e. "The character of Korean Glides". With Hyoung-Youb Kim. Studies in Linguistic Sciences 21.2:113-125.
• 1991f. Illinois Studies in Linguistics II. edited with J. Morgan and James H-S. Yoon. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois
• 1992a. "Korean as a Pluricentric Language". In Michael Clyne ed.: Pluricentric Languages, pp. 239-260. Berlin and new York: Mouton de Gruyter.
• 1992b. Review of Florian Coulmas: The Writing Systems of the World (Basil Blackwell, 1989). Journal of Asian Studies 51.4:861-863.
• 1992c. "The feature [ATR] in Somali Vowel Harmony". With Iwona Kraska. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics.
• 1992d. "Teaching of Korean Abroad: The current status and some problems". (in Korean) In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Korean Studies Abroad. New York, NY: Research Institute of World Affairs.
• 1993. "Phonology of Loanwords in Korean". International Journal of Korean Linguistics 6.1-20.
• 1994a. "Some Underlying Causes of Linguistic Divergence in Korea". In Gugohak-yon'guui Saemt'o [A fountain of Korean Linguistics], pp. 965-976. Taejon, Korea: Mun'gyong Press.
• 1994b. "Language and Ideology: The Case of Korean Dictionaries". (in Korean) International Journal of Korean Studies 1.19-28.
• 1994c. "Modern Phonetics". In Suk-Jin Chang ed.: Where is Modern Linguistics Going? pp. 3-14. Seoul, Korea: Hanshin Publishers.
• 1994d. Review of Young-Key Kim-Renaud ed.: King Sejong the Great: The Light of 15th Century Korea. (George Washington University: Washington, D.C., 1992) Journal of Asian Studies 53.3:955-956.
• 1995a. "One Language, Two Ideologies, and Two Dictionaries". In B. B. Kachru and H. Kahane eds.: Cultures, Ideologies, and the Dictionary. pp. 213-222. Tubingen, Germany: Max Niemeyer Verlag.
• 1995b. "Toward Unified Korean". In Eui-hang Shin & Yun Kim eds.: Korea and the World: Strategies for Globalization, pp. 109-118. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.
• 1995c. "Korean Names". In E. Eichler et al eds.: Namenforschung [Name Studies], pp. 918-925. Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter & Co.
• 1995d. Language and Ideology Toward Unification. Edited with Chol-ang Kim. Osaka, Japan: International Society for Korean Studies.
• 1995e. "Korean and Other Languages: contrasts and Concords". International Journal of Korean Language Education 6.3-31.
• 1995f. "Globalization of Korean: Problems and Prospects". (in Korean) In Globalization of the Korean Culture, pp. 117-132. Seoul, Korea: Academy of Korean Studies.
• 1996a. "The Umlaut rule in Korean Revisited". In Essays in Honor of Prof. Ki-Moon Lee, pp. 138-155. Seoul, Korea: Shin'gu Publishing Co.
• 1996b. "Globalization of Korean: Transplant or Implant?" In Eui-Hang Shin ed.: Korea in the Global Community: Past, Present and Future, pp. 191-205. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.
• 1997a. "Theory and Data in Linguistics". In Festschrift for Professor Hang-Geun Cho. pp. 113-128. Chongju, Korea: Chungbuk National Univesity Press.
• 1997b. "Notes on Teaching Korean Phonology". In committee for SAT-II Korean ed.: Teaching Korean in the U.S. Los Angeles, CA: Academia Koreana
• 1997c. "The Structure of Phonological Units in Han'gul". In Y-K. Kim-Renaud ed.: The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure. pp. 145-160. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press.
• 1997d. Optimality Theory: An Introduction. Co-authored with Sang-Buom Cheon, Cook Chung, and Young-Seok Kim. Seoul, Korea: Hanshin Publishers. [Linguistic Society of Korea Special Lecture Series, #3]
• 1997e. "Phonology for the Hearer". In Hwang Gye-Jung ed.: Aesthetics of Language, pp. 341-372. Seoul, Korea: Kukhak-caryowon.
• 1998a. "Unrelease in Korean Stops Revisited". (with Seok-Chae Rhee). To appear in Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics VII.
• 1998b. "Korean as a Foreign Language and as a Heritage Language". To appear in The Korean Language in the 21st Century. Seoul, Korea: The Korean Language Society.

RECENT ACTIVITIES

• June 25-28. Invited speaker, The 2nd International Conference on Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language. Keimyung University, Taegu, Korea.
• July 11-13, 1997. Presented a paper (co-authored: Seok-Chae Rhee): "Unrelease in Korean stops revisited". Harvard Workshop in Korean Linguistics VII, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
• August 8-10, 1997. Organized a panel on "Computerization and Modernization of Korean" in the 5th International conference on Korean Studies, Osaka, Japan.
• October 9, 1997. Presented a paper: "The graphic structure of the Korean script". Linguistics Seminar, Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois.
• October 12-16. Invited speaker, The 6th International Conference on Korean Linguistics commemorating the 600th Anniversary of King Sejong's Birth. The Korean Language Society, Seoul, Korea.
• May 1-2. Organized an International symposium on Literacy and Writing Systems in Asia, Part I. University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.
• July 6-9, 1997. Invited keynote speaker, 10th Biennial conference of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics, Honolulu, HI. Title: "Problems of reduplication in Korean".
• July 13-14. Organizing an International Symposium on Literacy and Writing Systems in Asia, Part II. Korea University, Seoul.
• July 30-August 1, 1998. Invited speaker, The 3rd International Conference on Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language. Academia Koreana, Los Angeles, CA.

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