Ho-min Sohn

Ho-min Sohn^[a] (Korean: 손호민; born 1933^[2]) is a South Korean linguist.

Ho-min Sohn
Born	1933 (age 91–92) Suncheon, Zenranan Province, Korea, Empire of Japan
Education	Seoul National University University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Korean name
Hangul	손호민
RR	Son Homin
MR	Son Homin

Sohn was born in Suncheon, Zenranan Province, Korea, Empire of Japan. He graduated from Seoul National University (SNU) with a bachelor's degree in 1956 and a master's degree in linguistics in 1965. He graduated from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UH) with a Ph.D. in linguistics in 1969. He began teaching at UH in 1971. By 1980 he was a professor in the Department of East Asian Studies. He became the director of UH's Korean Studies Center in 2004.^[3][4][2]

Sohn authored over twenty textbooks for the Korean language.^[5]

He received a Presidential Citation from South Korea in 1997.^[3] In 2011, he received the Korea Foundation Award, given by the Korea Foundation.^[6]

Notes

1. "Ho-Min Sohn" is used in his 2001 book The Korean Language, but his university profile gives "Ho-min Sohn".^[1]