Prof. Sang Kee SONG graduated from Korea University and earned his MA and Ph. D at Yale University in USA. He teaches Latin American Literature and Thought at Korea University’s Department of Spanish Language & Literature.
His passion for Latin American Culture and Literature developed at Pontificia Javeriana University at Colombia when he was international exchange student in 1988. He was a Visiting Scholar at Colegio de México and the University of California at San Diego and the Director of the Institute of Hispanic Studies at Korea University. He is the Vice President of the Korean Council on Latin America & the Caribbean and Vice President of the Korean Association on Baroque Studies.
Prof. Song is the first Asian Hispanist to publish several articles on Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in Revista Iberoamericana, the most prestigious journal on Latin American Literature. Recently he has been researching Baroque Ethos as an alternative discourse of Modernity and the relationship between Law and Literature during the 16th and 17th centuries in Latin America.
As Vice President for International Affairs, he overseas a number of teams and units responsible for institutional and network cooperation, student mobility, international student recruitment, international summer and winter sessions and global leadership training programs.
