Young-Key Kim-Renaud

Young-Key Kim-Renaud (; born ) is an American linguist and Koreanist of South Korean origin. She is professor emeritus of Korean Language and Culture and International Affairs at George Washington University.

Her mother was author Han Moo-sook. She graduated from . She received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Ewha Womans University in 1963, a Master of Arts in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley (Cal), a graduate degree in French as a Foreign Language from the University of Paris, Sorbonne, and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Hawaiʻi. she served in that role from 1990 to 1992, and was editor-in-chief of its journal, Korean Linguistics, from 2002 to 2014.

Her husband is French economist Bertrand Renaud, with whom she has a daughter.