Kim Seong-kon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Kim Seong-kon

writer

Date of Birth: 09-Sep-1949

Place of Birth: North Jeolla Province, South Korea

Profession: journalist, literary critic, critic

Nationality: South Korea

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Kim Seong-kon

  • Kim Seong-Kon (Korean: ???; born in South Korea), also known as Seong-Kon Kim is a South Korean academic, literary critic, film critic, columnist, editor and writer. Kim was the President of the LTI Korea (Literature Translation Institute of Korea) in the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of South Korea, which was an undersecretary-level position.
  • He was also Chairman of the Board of Trustees at LTI Korea.
  • In February 2015 Kim was reappointed President of LTI Korea by the Korean government to lead the institution for another three years.
  • Kim is also former Dean and Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University where he was selected for the Distinguished Professor for Research Award seven times.
  • In 2015, Kim received the Distinguished Teaching Professor Award from the Central Government Officials’ Training Institute in the Ministry of Interior and his name entered the Hall of Fame in 2018.
  • In 2016, Kim was appointed as an undersecretary level member of the Public Diplomacy Council in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  • In addition, Kim received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the State University of New York on May 19, 2017.
  • In 2018, Kim taught at George Washington University as Dean's Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities and also at the University of Malaga in Spain as a Visiting Professor.
  • In the same year, Kim was decorated by King Felipe VI of Spain with La Orden del Merito Civil (The Order of Chivalry).
  • In 2019, Kim taught at the University of California, Irvine as a Visiting Professor.
  • Kim has taught at Pennsylvania State University, University of California, Berkeley, and Brigham Young University as a Visiting Professor, and conducted research at Harvard Yenching Institute, University of Oxford and University of Toronto as a Visiting Scholar.
  • A prizewinning literary critic, Kim initiated the debate on literary postmodernism for the first time in Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
  • He was also a pioneer in postcolonialism and cultural studies in Korea.
  • His books on postmodernism, postcolonialism, and cultural studies have greatly influenced writers and scholars in the Korean republic of letters.
  • In 2008, Kim received the prestigious Kim Hwantae Award for Literary Criticism and in 2014 the Woo Ho Humanities Award. Kim was editor of literary journals such as Literature & Thought, 21st Century Literature and Contemporary World Literature.
  • In addition, Kim has been a regularly featured columnist for the Korea Herald since 2003.
  • His Herald columns have frequently appeared in international media such as The Nation, the China Post, the Asia One, the Pakistan Observer, the Star Online, the Yahoo! News, the Asian Views, the Straits Times, the Kathmandu Post and others.
  • He was also appointed co-editor of Korea Journal published by the Korean National Commission for UNESO for 2015-2016.
  • In 2017 Kim was asked by the New York Times to write a column for the editorial/opinion page. Kim was designated Dean of International Affairs at Seoul National University, a Research Member of the South Korea's Presidential Council on National Cohesion, and Chairman of the Korean Culture Overseas Promotion Council in the Ministry of Culture.
  • Actively engaged in promoting Korean literature overseas, Kim was Vice President of the Seoul Literary Society which consisted of foreign ambassadors and high-ranking diplomats stationed in Seoul(2012-2017) and is a member of the Advisory Committee on Korean literature of White Pine Press in New York.
  • Kim is also Honorary President of the State University of New York at Buffalo Alumni Association's South Korea chapter. In addition, Kim received the CU Distinguished Alumnus Award (2009), the Fulbright Distinguished Alumnus Award (2010), and the SUNY/Buffalo International Distinguished Alumni Award (2012).
  • Kim has also been featured regularly on the covers and in special editions of prestigious literary journals.
  • In 2016, for example, "Writer’s World" featured a special edition on Kim in the winter issue and "Literature & Thought," too, published a special edition on Kim in the August issue.
  • In 2019, Kim also appeared on the cover of the December issue of "Literature & Thought." Recently, his name entered the Hall of Fame of the Seoul National University Foundation. In 2015 Kim was appointed as the speaker of two prestigious lectures: the KRF (Korea Research Foundation) Distinguished Professor Lecture and the NAVER Cultural Foundation Lecture.
  • In the same year, Kim was also selected as one of “the 50 Representative Literary Critics of Korea since 1900” by the Association of Korean Literary Critics.
  • In 2016, Kim was appointed as Chairman of the Asia Culture Forum and a member of the Korea-China Cultural Exchange Council by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism.
  • In the same year, he was appointed as a part-time Visiting Professor at the National Human Resources Institute in the Ministry of Personnel Management.
  • In 2016, Kim was awarded the Plaque of Distinguished Accomplishment on behalf of LTI Korea from the Management Assessment Team of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
  • In 2017, Kim was appointed as Head Judge of the prestigious Ho-am Prize Selection Committee, a Korean version of the Nobel Prize, and also the Segye Ilbo Literary Prize.
  • Presently, he is a judge for the two prestigious literary awards: the Yi Sang Literary Award and the Park Kyungni Literary Prize.

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