유영익 (국방대학교 석좌교수)

Young-ick Lew
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Name in Latin Alphabet:	Young-ick Lew
Nationality:	Republic of Korea
Affiliation:	National Defense University

강연자 소개

Dr. Young-ick LEW is the former President of the National Institute of Korean History and a former Chair Professor of Korean History at Yonsei University. He currently teaches modern Korean history as a Chair Professor at the National Defense University.

He graduated from Seoul National University with a B.A. in Political Science and received a Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University in 1972. He taught East Asian History at the University of Houston as a tenured associate professor until he returned to Korea in 1979. He then taught Korean history at five universities in Korea, including Korea University, Hallym University, Yonsei University, Handong University, and the National Defense University. He served as a president of the Korean Historical Association (1991-1992), and as the founding director of the Institute for Modern Korean Studies at Yonsei University (1997-2001). He has written a number of books and articles on late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Korean history, notably on Dr. Syngman Rhee, the first president of the Republic of Korea. He is the author of Youthful Syngman Rhee: A Study of His Activities and Writings in the Seoul Prison, 1899-1904 (Seoul: Yonsei University Press, 2002) and Syngman Rhee: The Founding President of the Republic of Korea (Seoul: Ilchogak, 2013)--both in Korean. He co-authored Korea: Old and New: A History (Seoul: Ilchokak for Korea Institute, Harvard University, 1990) with Profs. Carter Eckert, Ki-baik Lee and Edward W. Wagner. and authored Early Korean Encounters with the United States and Japan (Seoul: Royal Asiatic Studies Korean Branch, 2008) in English. His most recent publication in English is a biography of Syngman Rhee, entitled The Making of the First Korean President: Syngman Rhee’s Quest for Independence, 1875-1948, which was released in 2014 through the University of Hawaii Press.