Education

March 1972 - February 1975Tae Sung High School

http://www.taesung.hs.kr

March 1978 - February 1986Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies, BA in English Education major &Spanish Education minor

http://www.hufs.ac.kr

August 1991 - December 1996The University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D. in Linguistics (Grammaticalization)

Dissertation (1996): Semantics of Verbs and Grammaticalization: The Development in Korean from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective.

[Published by Hankuk Publisher, Seoul. ISBN 89-7735-403-X] [학위논문]

Dissertation Supervisor:

Manfred Krifka

My mentors in the dissertation committee:

Prof. Manfred Krifka

Prof. Bernd Heine

Prof. Stephen Wechsler

Prof. Robert King

Prof. Rodney Moag

Prof. Sian Yen