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