Yongtaek Kim
Associate Professor of Korean
Member Of:
- School of Modern Languages
Email Address:
yongtaek.kim@modlangs.gatech.eduFax Number:
404-894-0955Office Location:
Swann 309Office Hours:
TR 10:50-11:50 and by appointmentRelated Links:
Overview
Dr. Yongtaek Kim is Associate Professor of Korean in the School of Modern Languages. He received his PhD in linguistics from the University of Oregon in 2009. His research focuses on comparative linguistics between English, Korean, and Japanese with a Cognitive Linguistics approach. Dr. Kim teaches Advanced Korean and various Korean content courses, such as Advanced language Korean Media and Culture, Languages and Cultures of East Asia, and Intercultural Seminar. Before joining Georgia Tech, he taught Korean at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Middlebury Language School of Korean, and Western Washington University.
Interests
Research Fields:
- Instructional Technologies for Foreign Language Acquisition
- Korean
- Linguistics
- Studies Abroad
Geographic
Focuses:
Focuses:
- Asia (East)
Issues:
- Cinema Studies
- Digital and Mixed Media
- East-Asian Studies
- Language and Popular Culture
Courses
- KOR-1001: Elementary Korean I
- KOR-1002: Elementary Korean II
- KOR-2001: Intermediate Korean I
- KOR-2002: Intermediate Korean II
- KOR-2813: Special Topics
- KOR-2823: Special Topics
- KOR-3001: Advanced Korean I
- KOR-3002: Advanced Korean II
- KOR-3410: Korea Old and New
- KOR-3415: Korean K-Pop/Film/Drama
- KOR-3843: Special Topics
- KOR-4001: Contemporary Korean
- KOR-4002: Select Rdngs Of Mod Kor
- KOR-4500: Intercultural Seminar
- KOR-8804: Special Topics
All Publications
Journal Articles
- Diachronic shifts of Korean Pyello and Japanese Amari from PPI to NPI
In: Japanese/Korean Linguistics 27
Date: July 2020
- Linguistic manifestations of fictive change participants: Apparent alternations between the accusative and the dative/comitative cases in Korean and Japanese (with K. Izutsu)
In: Asian Languages and Linguistics [Peer Reviewed]
Date: February 2020
Chapters
- Application of Extended Semantic Map Model to the Korean and Japanese Resultative Constructions
In: Papers in Commemoration of Professor Yoshihisa Nakamura’s Retirement: Perspective of a Language
Date: March 2018
- A Comparative Study of Inverse Voice in Korean and Japanese
In: Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics XV
Date: March 2014
- Subjectification and Grammaticalization: A Case Study of Modal Auxiliaries in Japanese and Korean
Date: March 2010