Seongha Rhee is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Department of English Linguistics and Language Technology, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea, where I worked as a linguistics professor from March 1997 to February 2022. 

Concurrently, I am working at Mahidol University, Thailand, as Global Talent Professor (from February 2022 until the present). 

I received the Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996 under the supervision of Professor Dr. Manfred Krifka (now Professor Emeritus at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany). My lifelong mentor is Professor Dr. Bernd Heine (now Professor Emeritus at University of Cologne, Germany). I taught and researched at Stanford University as a 2003-2004 Fulbright lecturer, hosted by Professor Dr. Elizabeth C. Traugott (now Professor Emeritus at Stanford University). 

My primary research interests are to identify cognitive and discursive mechanisms that enable language change from the crosslinguistic and typological perspectives; to analyze cultural influence that shapes linguistic structure and triggers language change; and to investigate the socio-cultural, rhetorical, discursive aspects that influence language learning, among others.