Choe Hyeon-bae
Korean language scholar
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Choe Hyeon-bae's Degrees
- PhD Korean Language and Literature Seoul National University
- Masters Korean Language and Literature Seoul National University
- Bachelors Korean Language and Literature Seoul National University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Choe Hyeon-bae , also known by the pen-name Oesol, was an educationalist and scholar of the Korean language. Early life and career Choe's family was part of the Gwangju Choe bon-gwan. He was born in Ulsan, then part of Gyeongsangnam-do in the southern half of the Joseon Kingdom . He did his secondary education at Gyeongseong High School , and in 1910 entered the Korean Language Academy , where he studied under Ju Sigyeong. He graduated from the Hiroshima Higher Normal School in Hiroshima, Japan in 1919. In 1920, he began teaching at the private Dongnae High School , but in 1922 returned to the Hiroshima Higher Normal School for further studies, and then entered the philosophy department of Kyoto Imperial University, graduating in 1925. He began teaching at the Yonhui Technical School in 1926, but in 1938 was removed from the service due to his involvement in a 1938 incident at the Heungeop Club. He was reinstated as a librarian at Yeonhui College in May 1941, but resigned in October of the same year due to the Joseon Language Institute incident. During this incident key members of the organization were arrested, tried, and jailed by the colonial administration for their ties to the pro-independence Korean language movement, including Choe, who was jailed for four years until Korea formally achieved independence from Japan in 1945.
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