About Ho-min Sohn
Born 1933. Ho-min Sohn is a university teacher.
Ho-min Sohn (; born 1933 ) 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.
He received a Presidential Citation from South Korea in 1997.
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