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                      Mr Lee Chang-Kook was born in 1940 in Korea. He graduated from Seoul National University in 1964, majoring in English. He served in the Korean army as a second lieutenant for two years, taught English at junior and senior high school for five years, and went to the United States and earned his MA in English from Villanova University in Pennsylvania in 1973. He received his PhD degree from Sogang University in Seoul on John Milton's poetry in 1985. The title of his dodctoral thesis is "The Comic Vision in Paradise Lost." and for more than twenty years has been teaching English literature at Chung-Ang University in Seoul since he came back home in '1974. Mr Lee was invited by USIS (United States Informantion Service) to participate in the NEH (National Endowment for Humanities) seminar which was held at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 13 June to 5 August  in 1988 under the directorship of Dr Mark Krupnick. The theme of the seminar was the 'American Cultural Criticism'. Professor Lee published The Story of Literary Criticism, a scholarly book in Korean on citicical theories of literature in 1995. He was appointed Dean of the College of Education of Chung-Ang University in 2001. He retired in 2006 after teaching English literature for more than 30 years. Currently Mr. Lee is Emeritus Professor of English literature at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea.


                 Apart from his acacemic achievements and activitiies, Mr Lee Chang-Kook is also well known to his colleagues and to many of his countrymen as a writer of English essays. Since his return home from  the United States in 1975, he has been writing essays, not regularly but steadily, for his column 'Ideas & Ideals" in the Korea Times, one of the two daily English newspapers in Korea. With wide and various subjects ranging from political, cultural and social to literary, treated with wit, humour and satire, sometimes serious and sometimes funny, his well-balanced and graceful English essays have continually been a great surprise and delight to so many readers of his column. A few truely good readers of his writings see in him the birth of a serious essayist for the first time on the native soil of Korea who can write as vigorously and gracefully as some of the great English essayists such as,

Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. L. Mencken, Van Wyck Brooks, Art Buchwald, Russel Baker and E.B. White.


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