Young-Key Kim-Renaud | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Academic background | |
| Education |
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| Academic work | |
| Institutions | George Washington University (retired) |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 김영기 |
| RR | Gim Yeonggi |
| MR | Kim Yŏnggi |
Young-Key Kim-Renaud (Korean: 김영기; bornc. 1942[1][2]) is an American linguist andKoreanist of South Korean origin. She is Professor Emeritus of Korean Language and Culture and International Affairs atGeorge Washington University.[3]
Her mother was authorHan Moo-sook.[4][1][5] She graduated fromKyunggi Girls' High School [ko].[6] She received a Bachelor of Arts in English fromEwha Womans University in 1963, a Master of Arts in Linguistics from theUniversity of California, Berkeley (Cal), a graduate degree in French as a Foreign Language from theUniversity of Paris, Sorbonne, and a Ph.D in Linguistics from theUniversity of Hawaiʻi.[1][3][2] According to Kim-Renaud, while at Cal, she taught the first course on the Korean language in American history.[1] She served as Assistant Program Director for Linguistics at the U.S.National Science Foundation.[5][3] She began teaching atGeorge Washington University (GW) in 1983; she would teach there until her retirement in 2015. She was chair of the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department for the last 12 years of her tenure.[1][3]
She was the first female President of theInternational Circle of Korean Linguistics;[1][7] she served in that role from 1990 to 1992, and was editor-in-chief of its journal,Korean Linguistics, from 2002 to 2014.[3] In 2006, she received theOrder of Cultural Merit, 4th grade from the South Korean government.[1][5] In 2024, she and her husband donated US$100,000 to Ewha Womans University to establish a Kim-Renaud Humanities Research Award (김·르노 인문과학 연구상).[8]
Her husband is French economist Bertrand Renaud,[1] with whom she has a daughter.[5]