[KS] Sept 28 at Sogang Univ Alumni Hall at 7--Hangul

[sangoak at snu.ac.kr]

For 
list members in 
 
or near
Seoul 

 

:  



 


  
The Royal Asiatic Society’s Korea Branch 
is holding its
 

commemorative 
lecture of 
Hangul
 Day on
 

Wednesday, 

September 28
th
 
at 
Sogang
 University 
Alumni
 Hall at 
7:30 p.m.
 (For those who 
want to browse accompanying exhibitions may come early from 
7 p.m.)
 



 


Prof. 

Sang-Oak 
Lee
 

of 
Seoul National University’s Korean Department will give a talk on
 

The 
Invention of the Korean Alphabet
.  
There is no charge for the lecture.
  

More details on Prof. Lee, the talk, and the location are on the RAS 
website at www.raskb.com; click on Open Lectures, then on the Sept. 28 
link.


 

        
  

Attendees 
can see 
exhibitions
 
and order the English books from the display (in 
20%
 discount for many titles). 

You 
can find one of the best selections of English language books on 

     
Korea
     

 available in any one 
place.
 

If 
they wish; the Hall is open till 
    9:30 
p.m.
  (The public is always 
welcome.)
  [
The 
        lecture will recount Professor Lee’ s 30 posters, while including many 
        information on the writing system and story of HANGUL, largely through 
        excerpts from the manuscript of his book and 
        websites.  Besides the main display of posters, there will be 
        two more exhibitions: 1) Exhibition of ‘Concrete Poetry’ in 24 Korean 
        Alphabet by Prof. Won Koh,
  
        
2) ‘
Sale
’ Books on HANGUL and Korean 
        culture in English and other foreign languages. For example,
 
 
        Sang-Oak Lee et al., 1992, 
Korean through English
 (three 
        volumes), Hollym Co., 
Elizabeth
, 
NJ
, & 
Seoul
.
  


        
      
        Professor Sang-Oak Lee received his Ph. D. in general linguistics from 
        the 
University
 of 
        
Illinois
 at 
Urbana
, in 
        1978.  From the fall of 1975 through the summer of 1977 he was 
        a Yenching Research Fellow at 
Harvard
 
University
 and from the fall of 1985 
        through the summer of 1986 a Humboldt Fellow at 
M
?chen
 
        
Univ
.
  He 
        also taught at the 
University
 of 
Sydney
 from 1994 to 1997. 
        He is currently teaching as a professor in the Department of Korean 
        Language and Literature at 
Seoul
 
National
 
University
.]
]
 
    






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