The UB Early Modern Research Workshop presents
“Shakespeare Studies in North Korea”
WooSoo Park, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea
Professor of English
WooSoo Park is Dean and Professor of English at the College of English, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, South Korea. He took his Ph.D. at Seoul National University, where he specialized in Renaissance Drama and Rhetoric with a dissertation on “A Critical Study of the Power of Language in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe.” He is the author, among other books, of Shakespeare and the Extension of Men (2006) and Shakespeare’s History Plays: Language, Structure and Irony (2012), and over 50 articles and reviews in journals such as Shakespeare Review, The Journal of Classic and Renaissance Drama, and The Journal of English Language and Literature. He has also translated Hamlet,King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, and The Sonnets for the Open Book series.
