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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/book-talk-kim-soo-gyong-a-kore
 an-linguist-who-went-north/
SUMMARY:Kim Soo-Gyong\, a Korean Linguist Who Went North
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with the Korea Institute \n\nThis talk presents t
 he first book-length biography of Kim Soo-Gyong (1918-2000). A gifted ling
 uist with extraordinary life trajectories\, Kim is known in the Democratic
  People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) for his central role in establishing th
 e national orthography and standardizing the official Korean grammar.\n\nB
 orn in 1918 in Korea under Japanese colonial rule\, Kim moved to North Kor
 ea in 1946 with hopes of revolution and joined the faculty of the newly fo
 unded Kim Il Sung University. He became a leading figure in Korean linguis
 tics at a young age\, studying the history of the Korean language through 
 structuralist linguistics. When the Korean War broke out in 1950\, Kim was
  separated from his family. Although Kim disappeared from the academic sce
 ne in 1968\, his honor was restored twenty years later. Even a novel featu
 ring Kim was published in the DPRK during his lifetime.\n\nHistorical anth
 ropologist Itagaki Ryuta published Kim's biography in Japanese (2021)\, wh
 ich was then translated and published in Korean (2024). Much more than a p
 ersonal biography\, the book cross-examines multiple contexts and issues -
  including colonialism and the Cold War\, structural linguistics and Marxi
 sm\, and family separation and reunification - to bring to light the tumul
 tuous twentieth-century history of the Korean peninsula and beyond.\n\n
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
LOCATION:Common Room (#136)\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, United S
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