Ho-min Sohn

Ho-min Sohn (Ph.D. in Linguistics, UHM, 1969) is Professor of Korean language and linguistics and Director of the Korean Language Flagship Center, UHM. He is also president of the Korean Language Education and Research Center and a past president of both the American Association of Teachers of Korean (1994-97) and of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics (1979-81). He is serving as the director of a collaborative project developing college-level Korean language textbooks and a dictionary of Korean grammar and usage. His numerous publications include A Ulithian Grammar (Australian National U Press 1973), Woleaian Reference Grammar (UH Press 1975), Linguistic Expeditions (Hanshin 1986), Korean: Descriptive Grammar (Routledge 1994), The Korean Language (Cambridge U Press 1999), Selected Readings in Korean (UH Press 2003), and Korean Language in Culture and Society (UH Press 2006).