- March 1972 - February 1975Tae Sung High School
- March 1978 - February 1986Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies, BA in English Education
major & Spanish Education minor
- August 1991 - December 1996The University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D. in Linguistics
- 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] [Dissertation Series]
- 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
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