Hyuk-sook Kim
Korean Studies
Frankfurt University
Germany
Biography
Dr. Hyuk-Sook Kim studied German philology and linguistic sociology, Magister at Kyonggi University in Korea in 1990 and Ph.D. Walter Raitz and Prof. dr. Werner Hoffmann at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main 2007. Since winter semester 2013/14 she works as a teacher for special assignments in the Korean Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Previously she taught German language and contemporary literature, Korean-German translation and Korean language at Kyonggi University, the Translation Literature Academy of Korea Literature Translation Institute in Korea and Goethe University. She also works as a state-certified and authorized translator of the Korean language for courts and notaries in the state of Hesse and above all as a literary translator.
Research Interest
She is interested in contemporary literature
