User:Jonghyuk

Birth and Education

Dr. Jong-Hyuk Rah (Hangul: 나종혁; born Jong-hyuk Rah[1] on 10 February, 1966)[2] is a South Korean critic, business consultant and literary writer. Jong-Hyuk Rah is a consultant of business and education as well as a writer of English and literature. He was born in Asan City, Rep. of Korea in 1966, and completed primary and secondary schools in the nearby areas. He studied English Literature at Sogang University in Seoul, Korea and further study has been done in the same Graduate Schools with the results of MA and Ph.D degrees (ABD).

Education

Yeomtee Primary School (1972 – 1978), Onyang Middle School (1978 – 1981), Cheonan Bookeel High School (1981 – 1984), Sogang University (English Major, BA, 1984 - 1990), Sogang University (English Major, MA, 1991 – 1993), Sogang University (English Major, Ph.D., ABD, 1995 – 1998), Researches (ANU, UBC, 2000).

Careers

He taught English literature at Seonam University and Hanshin University for years, and studied the environment at [ANU]-ACEL, Australia. He is currently writing doctoral and business articles as well as poems and short stories.

Jong-Hyuk Rah's e-mail address is <princela@paran.com>.

Experiences

Interpreter (Sunggok Cup International Judo Tournament, 1989),
Contractor (POSCO, 1989 – 1990),
Instructor (part-time, English Literature, Sogang University, 1995),
Instructor (part-time, English Literature, Baewha Women’s College, 1995),
Instructor (part-time, English, Life-Long Education Center, Duksung Women’s University, 1996),
Instructor (full-time, English Literature, Seonam University, 1997 – 2000),
Instructor (part-time, English Literature, Hanshin University, 2001),
Manager (E-commerce and Exports, Top Cast Co. Ltd., 2002-2003),
Free-Lancer Consultant (It & Management, KPC License, 2005)
CEO (Digital Consulting, 2010),
CEO (DRM Institute Publisher, 2011).

References

Publications

High School Publications

“Winter Sun,” Chowoo 1 (1981, p. 14) (poem in Korean)
“A Doggie’s Sound at the Grocery Market,” Chowoo 1 (1981, p. 40) (prose in Korean)
“An Oath,” Chowoo 2 (1982, p. 12) (poem in Korean)
“Fall,” Chowoo 2 (1982, p. 25) (poem in Korean)
“A Story to be Written,” Chowoo 2 (1982, p. 41) (prose in Korean)

Undergraduate Publications-BA

“Imagination: from Plight, Flight or Flight?,” Sogang Review 18 (1989, p. 23) (prose in English)
“A Ghost Named Past in Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night,” Sogang Review 18 (1989, pp. 56-57) (essay in English)
“Emily Dickinson’s Self-Exploitation toward Eternity,” Sogang University, English Department, BA Thesis (1989, pp. 1-16) (BA thesis in English)

Graduate Publications-MA

“Literary Forms and Reality in Some English Renaissance Texts,” Sogang English Literature 3 (1991, pp. 61-75) (essay in Korean)
“Lyotard’s Postmodernism: Problems of Representation and Totality,” Sogang Graduate School Newspaper 16 (Sep. 10, 1992) (essay in Korean)
“American Identity and Romance in Scarlet Letter,” Sogangnonjib 6 (1992, pp. 233-249) (essay in Korean)
“A Study of Linguistic Abstraction in Wallace Stevens’ Poetry,” Sogang University, English Department, Graduate School, MA Thesis (1993, pp. 1-110) (MA thesis in English)

Graduate Publications-Ph.D.

Forest of Symbols, Sogang University Press (1996, pp. 1-270) (Translations of Daniel A. Kister’s Manuscripts in Korean, Book)
“Poetics of Remembering and Forgetting: W. Wordsworth and P. B. Shelley,” Sogang English Literature 7 (1996, pp. 135-153) (essay in Korean)

Instructor Publications-Full-Time

Kut Drama, Sogang University Press (1997, pp. 1-200) (Translations of Daniel A. Kister’s Manuscripts in Korean, Book)
“Edmund Burke and the 18th-Century English Novels,” Seonam University Nonmunjib 4 (1997, pp. 73-86) (essay in Korean)
“Time in W. Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Absalom! Absalom!,” Sogang English Literature 8 (1997, pp. 63-87) (essay in Korean)
Communicative English: An Anthology of English Readings for Freshmen, Cheongab Kim, Jong-Hyuk Rah, Youngsik Choi, Dong-Seok Seo, Dongin Publisher (co-editors) (1998, pp. 1-278) (Book of College English in Korean)
“English Literary Education Meets English Education-Poetry Reading and Literacy,” Proceedings of 1998 ELLAK Spring Conference, The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (May, 1998, pp. 110-112) (Presentation in Korean)
“Derrida’s Deconstruction and the Other,” The Order of Discourse, Munyae Publisher (1998, pp. 349-370) (essay in Korean)
Studying Literary Theory, Dongin Publisher (1999, pp. 1-230) (Translations of Roger Webster’s Studying Literary Theory into Korean, Book)
“Christological Poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins,” Sogang English Literature 10 (2000, pp. 77-102) (essay in Korean)
“English Literature and Literacy,” Teaching English Literature (2000, pp. 129-155) (essay in Korean)

Publications since the 2000 Millenium Year

[문학의 갈래-영어권 문학](The Trends of Literature: Literatures in English), Incheon, ROK: DRM Institute Publisher, 2011. (PDF e-book) [영미소설해제](Explicating the British and American Novels), Incheon: ROK: DRM Institute Publisher, 2011. (PDF e-book) A Study of Linguistic Abstraction in Wallace Stevens' Poetry, Incheon, ROK: DRM Institute Publisher, 2011. (PDF e-book) Human Drama: Essays on the Western Plays, Incheon, ROK: DRM Institute Publisher, 2011. (PDF e-book)

Researches

Research at the Wordsworth Conference, Grasmere, UK, 1997
Research at the University of British Columbia, Canada, 2000
Research at the Australian National University, Australia, 2000 Researches at the Peking University and the Situan Educational University, 2000, 2001
Researches at Top Cast Co. in the Soklee Mountains, Korea, 2002-2004, 2006-2007
Researches at Yeonsu City Library and Gachon Medical College, 2004-2005, 2007-2010

Research Achievements (complete manuscripts)

“Cultural Perfection,” Ph.D. Thesis Manuscript (Ph.D., ABD, 2003)
Unlocking the Text: fundamental issues in literary theory, Translations of Jeremy Hawthorn’s Unlocking the Text into Korean, translation manuscript (book, 2000)
Balancing in between Project and Practice, Essay Collections manuscript in Korean (book, 2001)
A Lovely Woman, Poetry Collections manuscript in Korean (book, 2008)
The Winter of the Red Sun, Poetry Collections manuscript in English (book, 2001)
The Anthology of the 17th and the 18th Century English Poetry manuscript in English (book, 2000)
English Woods: Critical Essays, Literary Criticism of English Literature in Korean (manuscript book, 2001)
English Literary Walks: Critical Essays, Literary Criticism of English Literature in Korean (manuscript book, 2006)
Words World, Latin and Greek Vocabulary (manuscript book, 2000)
Business Consultings, collection of business essays in Korean (manuscript book, 2009)
Victorian Poetry: Wordsworth, Hopkins, Arnold, collection of critical essays in English (manuscript book, 2010)
Times of Fortune, Collection of short stories, 15 stories written in Korean (manuscript book, 2010)

Current Activities

Creative writings

Jong-Hyuk Rah has written some poems in Korean and he has written 23 short stories in Korean and he will write short stories in English and drama in Korean as well.

Scholarly activities

He is studying and writing interpretative collections of T. S. Eliot, W. Wordsworth, and Matthew Arnold. He is also collecting and writing literary biographies on contemporary writers such as Lessing, Heaney, and others.

Business consulting activities

He has established a business consulting and trade firm, Digital Consulting, and are doing a consulting activities such as R&D consulting, biz consulting, translation and interpretation consulting, education consulting, publishing consulting, and others as a business consultant, distributor and retailer.

Internet activities

He is daily managing and uploading documents to his netizen website since 2007. He is almost daily visiting various websites.

Publisher Activities

He has established a publisher in Korea, DRM Insitute Publisher in 2011 and published 4 volumes on the English literature, two volumes in Korean ([문학의 갈래], [영미소설해제]) and the other two volumes in English (Human Drama: Essays on the Western plays, A Study of Linguistic Abstraction in Wallace Stevens' Poetry). He is currently writing and editing books for e-book publications.

Daily activities

He is usually visiting a public library for books and newspapers. He is writing his prose, criticism, literary biographies, and business consulting documents (Jan. 2012).

External Links

[1] facebook
[2] twitter
[3] homepage
[4] homepage
[5] Jonghyok's English articles