Kim Seong-kon
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| Native name | 김성곤 |
| Nationality | South Korean |
| Education | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Alma mater | SUNY/Buffalo, Columbia University |
| Genre | Literary criticism (literature and novels) |
| Subject | Postmodernism, postcolonialism, cultural studies |
| Notable works | Cultural Studies and the Future of the Humanities, Literature in the Age of New Media, Literature in the Globalizing World, Literature in the Age of Hybrid Cultures |
Kim Seong-Kon (Korean: 김성곤; born in South Korea), also known as Seong-Kon Kim is a South Korean academic, literary critic, film critic, columnist, editor and writer.
Kim is the President of the LTI Korea (Literature Translation Institute of Korea) in the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of South Korea, which is an Undersecretary-level position. He is 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. In 2016, Kim was appointed as a 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.
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 Heraldcolumns have frequently appeared in international media such as The Nation, the China Post, Asia One, Pakistan Observer, the Star Online, Yahoo! News, 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.
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