Kim Choon-mie

Kim Choon-Mie (born 14 February 1943) in (Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean academic and Japanologist, honored by the government of Japan for having "Contributed to the introduction of Japanese literature and the promotion of Japanese language education."^[1]

Education

Kim Choon Mie graduated and received Ph.D in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature from Korea University, Korea in 1984.^[2]

Career

• 1984 – Professor of Japanese Literature, Korea University.^[2]
• 2005 – President of the Research Center of Japanese Studies, Korea University.^[2]

She is a former President of the Korean Institution of Japanology.^[1]

She is a translator of Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore ( Umibe no kafuka).^[2] According to her, Murakami opened doors for Japanese literature in postwar Korea, especially with the "386" generation – Koreans who were born in the ’60s, who were students in the ’80’s, and who were in their 30s in the ’90s.^[3]

Honors

• Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, 2009.^[1]

Selected works

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• 2008 -- "Korea’s '386 Generation' that Identifies with a Sense of Loss: The Haruki Boom in Korea," in Wild Haruki Chase: Reading Murakami Around the World, Kokusai Kōryū Kikin., editor. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 978-1-933-33066-2; OCLC 196315807
• 1993 – 日本近代知識人の思想と実践 : 有島武郎の場合 (Nihon kindai chishikijin no shisō to jissen: Arishima Takeo no baai or The Thought and Practice of Modern Japanese Intellectuals : the Case of Arishima Takeo). Kyoto: Kokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyū Sentā. OCLC 190622114

Notes

1. Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "2009 Autumn Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals," p. 5.
2. Japan Foundation: "A Wild Haruki Chase: How the World Is Reading and Translating Murakami" March 2006.
3. Wright, Hillel. Book Review: A Wild Haruki Chase: Reading Murakami Around the World, compiled and translated by The Japan Foundation," Metropolis (Tokyo). No. 734. April 18, 2008.

References

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan), "2009 Autumn Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals," p. 5.