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William E. Skillend

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According to Wikipedia, William E. Skillend was the first British academic specializing in the Korean language, and the first professor of Korean at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Skillend was born in Liverpool and went on to study Japanese at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he received a first-class degree and later completed a PhD. He became one of the generation of British orientalists who started as military translators, in his case at Bletchley Park.

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