Born in Seoul, South Korea, March 1963.

B.A. and M.A. in Korean from Yonsei University.

Ph.D. from Paris Diderot University (Paris 7) with the dissertation, “Contribution a L’etude de la Prosodie du Coreen.”

Visiting Professor of Korean Language at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2006-2012.

Currently, lecturer of Pedagogy of Korean Phonetics and Phonetics at the Jeonju Campus of Yonsei University.