Chin-Woo Kim (; born 22 March 1936) is a South Korean-born linguist and an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of Illinois. He is recognized for his contribution to raising the international status of the Korean language through promoting Korean studies in the American education community.Yunjung Hwang, "Professor Chin-Woo Kim and Hong-Gil Park Received the Oesol Award [김진우·박홍길 교수 외솔상 수상]," Yonhapnews [연합뉴스], October 17, 2012, https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20121017137100005Professor Chin-Woo Kim and others received the KBS Overseas Companion Award [在美 김진우교수등 KBS 해외동포상 수상]," hankyungnews [한경뉴스], April 2, 2006, https://www.hankyung.com/news/article/2001113048521 He published more than a hundred papers on Korean linguistics, general linguistics, phonetics, and phonology in domestic and foreign academic journals.Junhee Lee, "Chungnam National University Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois Kim Chin-Woo invited special lecture [충남대 언어학과, 일리노이대 김진우 명예교수 초청 특강]," Newsband [뉴스밴드], September 13, 2015, http://www.newsband.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=80548Information referenceable on the site: https://linguistics.illinois.edu/directory/profile/cwkim He was listed in the directory of Who's Who in America (1982-) and Who's Who in the World (2004-), and was registered in 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century (9th ed., International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, 2015). He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the 2017 Marquis Who's Who.The Linguistic Society of Korea, "Designers of Modern Linguistics in Korea [한국 현대언어학의 설계자들 - 김진우 교수와의 대화]," LSK [한국언어학회], 46.3, (2021):897
Personal life Born in 1936 in Boeun, Chungcheongbuk-do, he studied under the nation's time of poverty and hardship.Jihyo Lee, "The 131st Academic Presentation of the Jungwon Forum [중원포럼 제131회 학술발표회]," Joogbunews [중부매일], February 19, 2019, http://www.jbnews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=1235983 His father, Hyung-ki Kim (金炯基, 1905–1989), had a profound influence on his life and studies. He was a professor of Korean literature at Chungnam National University, was an early member of Joseoneohakhoe (조선어학회; 朝鮮語學會; the Korean Language Society)Information referenceable on the site: https://www.daejeon.go.kr/his/board/musBoardDataView.do?menuSeq=670&bbsCode=hispeople&boardDataSeq=1098 and contributed to the status of the Korean language as a member of the "Malmoi" ()Malmoi () team.The Linguistic Society of Korea, "Designers of Modern Linguistics in Korea [한국 현대언어학의 설계자들 - 김진우 교수와의 대화]," LSK [한국언어학회], 46.3, (2021):898. After receiving his B.A degree in English literature at Yonsei University (1958), he finished another B.A in literature from Washington State University (1962). Then he completed his master's and doctorate in linguistics at UCLA. Under the guidance of Peter Ladefoged, he wrote the thesis "The Linguistic Specification of Speech" in Phonetics (1966),The Linguistic Society of Korea, "Designers of Modern Linguistics in Korea [한국 현대언어학의 설계자들 - 김진우 교수와의 대화]," LSK [한국언어학회], 46.3, (2021):899. and became the first Korean in the United States to receive a PhD in linguistics.The Linguistic Society of Korea, "Designers of Modern Linguistics in Korea [한국 현대언어학의 설계자들 - 김진우 교수와의 대화]," LSK [한국언어학회], 46.3, (2021):906. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Linguistics at MIT (1966) and taught linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 39 years (1967–2006). After that, he served as a chair professor of Korean literature at his alma mater in South Korea.
Career Chin-Woo Kim taught students as a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois from 1967 to 2006. In that period, he established a Korean language course at the university (1969).Publishing committee, Reflections in Intermission [막간의 회상] (서울: Hankookmunhwasa [한국문화사], 2016), page 422. He served as the head of the Department of Linguistics (1979–86, 1999–2004) and the East Asian Language and Literature Department (1990–91). He was a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii-Manoa Department of Linguistics, Yonsei University, and Korea University, and an associate professor at the University of Tehran (Iran). He served as president of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics (1977–80) and the International Association for Humanistic Studies in Language (2000–08).
Work Kim's main research interests are phonetics and phonology. Academia indicates that his books and papers have been cited over 3,000 times so far.The Linguistic Society of Korea, "Designers of Modern Linguistics in Korea [한국 현대언어학의 설계자들 - 김진우 교수와의 대화]," LSK [한국언어학회], 46.3, (2021):901. His representative writing is the publication of Language: the Theory and its Application (언어: 그 이론과 응용; 1985). He wrote this book at a time when there were no introductory textbooks for linguistics in South Korea and it since has been used as a university textbook. Several chapters were added to the supplementary editions, which is also a result of reflecting his thoughts on acknowledging the need for a more integrative and synthetic approach in linguistics study. The book provides an overview of the nature and origin of human language, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics and it covers human language in relation with society, psychology, literature, brain, music, and computers. He compares language to life with observing language from its origin to its death rather than within its function as a tool only, and this shows his view of language that analyzes the language as an organism.Chin-Woo Kim, Language: the Theory and its Application [언어: 그 이론과 응용] (서울: Top Publishing [탑출판사], 1985), page 11.
Honors and awards In recognition of his academic contributions and achievements, he received the KBS Overseas Korean of the Year Award in Humanities and Social Sciences (KBS 해외동포상; 2002),"Professor Chin-Woo Kim and others received the KBS Overseas Companion Award [在美 김진우교수등 KBS 해외동포상 수상]," hankyungnews [한경뉴스], April 2, 2006, https://www.hankyung.com/news/article/2001113048521 (2008),For specific info: http://www.dongsung.or.kr/board_news_view.htm?no=28&offset=15 Yonsei University Yonmunin Award (; 2008),"Yonmunin Award: Kim Chin-Woo, Lee Jong-deok, Nam Ki-shim [연문인상 김진우·이종덕·남기심씨]," The JoogAng [중앙일보], November 12, 2008, https://www.joongang.co.kr/article/3375457 and Oesol AwardOesol Award (; 2011)"34th Oesol Award: Professors Chin-Woo Kim and Hong-Gil Park [34회 외솔상 김진우-박홍길 교수]," Donga [동아일보], October 18, 2012, https://www.donga.com/news/People/article/all/20121018/50193163/1 In 2015, he accepted the Cultural Minister Award in South Korea.Publishing committee, Reflections in Intermission [막간의 회상] (서울: Hankookmunhwasa [한국문화사], 2016), page 421. In 2017, he received a Lifetime Achievement Awardhttps://wwlifetimeachievement.com/ from Marquis Who's Who.
Publications
Academic books and book contributions Kim, Chin-Woo. An outline of Phonetics (). Hankookmunhwasa (), 2020. Kim, Chin-Woo. "Globalization of Korean: transplant or implant?" Korea in the Global Community: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Eui Hang Shin. University of South Carolina, 1996, p. 191-205. Kang, Seok-Keun, and Chin-Woo Kim. "A Moraic Account of Consonant Cluster Simplification in Korean." Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistic Society of Mid-America, 1991. Kim, Chin-Woo. Language: the Theory and its Application (언어: 그 이론과 응용). Hankookmunhwasa (), 1985. Kim, Chin-Woo. "Two phonological notes: A-sharp and B-flat." Contributions to Generative Phonology, edited by Michael Brame. University of Texas Press, 1971, p. 155–170. Kim, Chin-Woo. "Experimental phonetics." A Survey of Linguistic Science, edited by William Dingwall. University of Maryland Press, 1969.
Selected essays Kim, Chin-Woo. "On the globalization of English: Some internal factors." World Englishes, vol.38, no.1-2, 2019, p. 128-133. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12366 Kim, Chin-Woo, and Hyoung-Youb Kim. "The character of Korean glides." Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, vol. 21, no. 2, 1991, p. 113-125. Kim, Chin-Woo. "Neutralization in Korean revisited." Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, vol. 9, no. 2, 1979, p. 147-155. Kim, Chin-Woo. "Linguistics and language policies in North Korea." Korean Studies, vol. 2, 1978, p. 159-175. Kim, Chin-Woo, and Seok-Chae Rhee. "Non-release and neutralization in Korean revisited." Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics, vol. 7, 1977, p. 121–137. Kim, Chin-Woo. "Gravity in Korean phonology." Language Research, vol. 9, no. 2, 1973, p. 274–281. Kim, Chin-Woo. "A theory of aspiration." Phonetica, vol. 21, no. 2, 1970, p. 107-116. Kim, Chin-Woo. "Boundary phenomena in Korean." Papers in Linguistics, vol. 2, no. 1, 1970, p. 1-26. Kim, Chin-Woo. "The vowel system of Korean." Language, vol. 44, no. 3, 1968, p. 516-527. Kim, Chin-Woo. "On the autonomy of the tensity feature in stop classification (with special reference to Korean stops)." Word, vol. 21, 1965, p. 339-359.
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