Name Kim Choon-mie | ||
Kim Choon-mie (born 14 February 1943) is a South Korean academic and Japanologist, honored by the government of Japan for having "[c]ontributed to the introduction of Japanese literature and the promotion of Japanese language education."
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Education
Kim graduated and received Ph.D in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature from Korea University in Seoul in 1984.
Career
She is a former President of the Korean Institution of Japanology.
She is a translator of Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore. According to her, Murakami opened doors for Japanese literature in postwar South Korea, especially with the 386 Generation who were born in the 1960s.
Honors
Selected works
References
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