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Sang-sup Lee (Korean: 이상섭 [i-sang-sŏp]; Hanja: 李商燮; born 1937) is a South Korean scholar of English literature, lexicographer, educationalist, and translator. He is a professor emeritus in the English Language and Literature Department at Yonsei University, who contributed to "establishing literary criticism as a systematic study of the humanities in South Korea"[1] and implemented the concept of "corpus" in the South Korean dictionary compilation methodology.[2]

Lee has received the 1999 Oesol Award from the Korean Association of Oesol,[3] the 2010 Order of Cultural Merit (보관문화훈장) from the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism in South Korea,[2] the 2017 Inchon Award from the Inchon Memorial Foundation,[4] and the 2017 Yoo Yeong Translation Award for translating the Complete Works of Shakespeare for the first time in Korea.[5]

Other career milestones of Lee include the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Yonsei University (1993—95), the President of the English Language and Literature Association of Korea (1997—99), the President of the Asian Association for Lexicography (1999—2001),[6] and the Director of Yonsei University's Korean Dictionary Compilation Center (1989⎼93; 1995⎼2002).[7]

References

  1. ^ Joon-hwan Kim and Kyung-deok Lee, “A Happy Humanist ‘Tied to Letters’: Life and Studies of Sang-sup Lee, A Literary Scholar [‘글자에 매인’ 즐거운 인문학자: 영문학자 이상섭의 삶과 학문],” The Dong Bang Hak Chi [동방학지] no. 158 (2012): 444.
  2. ^ a b Byung-seo Gongl. "Sang-sup Lee, an Honorary Professor of Yonsei University, and Others Have Been Selected as Persons of Distinguished Service to Hangeul [한글유공자에 이상섭 연대 명예교수 등 선정]." Yonhap News Agency, 30 September 2010.  https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20100930172800005.
  3. ^ "Sang-sup Lee and Sung-ki Jin Won the Oesol Award [외솔상 수상자에 이상섭.진성기씨]." The JoongAng, 13 October 1999. https://www.joongang.co.kr/article/3825870#home.
  4. ^ "2017 Inchon Award Winner: Sang-sup Lee [2017 인촌상 수상자: 이상섭]." The Inchon Memorial Foundation, 2017. http://www.inchonmemorial.co.kr/award.php?idx=232&classify=6&year=2017.
  5. ^ Mi-na Im. "Professor Sang-sup Lee Won the 11th Yoo Yeong Translation Award [제11회 유영번역상에 이상섭 교수]." Yonhap News Agency, 21 November 2017. https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20171121162000005.
  6. ^ Joon-hwan Kim and Kyung-deok Lee, "A Happy Humanist 'Tied to Letters': Life and Studies of Sang-sup Lee, A Literary Scholar ['글자에 매인' 즐거운 인문학자: 영문학자 이상섭의 삶과 학문]," The Legacy of Korean Humanities and Yonsei [한국 인문학의 맥과 연세], ed. HK+ Yonsei Public Humanities Center (Seoul: Hyean [혜안], 2014), 360-61; also, refer to “Sang-sup Lee [이상섭].” Moonji Publishing, 2018. http://moonji.com/bookauth/732/.
  7. ^ "History." Institute of Language & Information Studies, 2020. https://devcms.yonsei.ac.kr/ilis/detail01/history03.do