Young-Key Kim-Renaud
Young-Key Kim-Renaud | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic background | |
| Education |
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| Academic work | |
| Institutions | George Washington University (retired) |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 김영기 |
| RR | Gim Yeonggi |
| MR | Kim Yŏnggi |
Young-Key Kim-Renaud (Korean: 김영기; born c. 1942[1][2]) is an American linguist and Koreanist of South Korean origin. She is Professor Emeritus of Korean Language and Culture and International Affairs at George Washington University.[3]
Her mother was author Han Moo-sook.[4][1][5] She graduated from Kyunggi Girls' High School.[6] She received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Ewha Womans University in 1963, a Master of Arts in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley (Cal), a graduate degree in French as a Foreign Language from the University of Paris, Sorbonne, and a Ph.D in Linguistics from the University of Hawaiʻi.[1][3][2] According to Kim-Renaud, while at Cal, she taught the first course on the Korean language in American history.[1] She served as Assistant Program Director for Linguistics at the U.S. National Science Foundation.[5][3] She began teaching at George Washington University (GW) in 1983; she would teach there until her retirement in 2015. She was chair of the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department for the last 12 years of her tenure.[1][3]
She was the first female President of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics;[1][7] she served in that role from 1990 to 1992, and was editor-in-chief of its journal, Korean Linguistics, from 2002 to 2014.[3] In 2006, she received the Order of Cultural Merit, 4th grade from the South Korean government.[1][5] In 2024, she and her husband donated US$100,000 to Ewha Womans University to establish a Kim-Renaud Humanities Research Award (김·르노 인문과학 연구상).[8]
Her husband is French economist Bertrand Renaud,[1] with whom she has a daughter.[5]
References
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- ^ a b 국기연 (2008-07-11). ""우리말·역사·문화 배운 외국인 한국사랑이 저절로"". Segye Ilbo (in Korean). Retrieved 2025-10-07.
- ^ a b c d e "Young-Key Kim-Renaud". George Washington University. Retrieved 2025-10-07.
- ^ 정현정 (2005-10-01). "한글전파자 김영기 교수". YTN (in Korean). Retrieved 2025-10-07.
- ^ a b c d 오재범 (2006-10-10). ""20년전 어머니의 뜻 따른 것 같아 기쁘다"". 재외동포신문 (in Korean). Retrieved 2025-10-07.
- ^ 양형모 (2019-10-17). "김영기·박은경, 제26회 '자랑스러운 경기인' 수상". The Dong-A Ilbo (in Korean). Retrieved 2025-10-07.
- ^ 정영희 (2024-11-14). "김영기 GW대 명예교수 영시 6점 수록". The Korea Times (in Korean). Retrieved 2025-10-07.
- ^ 정영희 (2025-05-27). "김영기 교수, 이화여대에 '김·르노 인문과학 연구상' 제정". The Korea Times (in Korean). Retrieved 2025-10-07.