Suh Dae-sook explained

Suh Dae-sook
Hangul:	서대숙
Rr:	Seo Daesuk
Mr:	Sŏ Tae-suk

Suh Dae-sook (22 November 1931 – 13 September 2022)^[1] was a South Korean^[2] professor emeritus of political science and a director of the Centre for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii.^[3]

Suh was born in what is now North Korea, and defected to the South in 1946. He worked as an interpreter during the Korean War, and left to study abroad in the United States at Texas Christian University in 1952.

He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1964 with a thesis Korean Communism and the rise of Kim.^[4] He also later worked as a researcher there. In 1989, he was a visiting professor at Seoul National University. From 1999 to 2000, he worked as the Yongjae Distinguished Professor at Yonsei University.

He was best known for the books , published by Columbia University Press and considered the best work on the early life of Kim Il Sung, and The Korean Communist Movement.^[5] His works have been published or translated in English, Korean, Russian, and German.

Works

• Dae-Sook Suh Korean Communism and the rise of Kim Columbia University. 1964
• Dae-Sook Suh; Chae-Jin Lee. Political Leadership in Korea Seattle:University of Washington Press, 2014. According to WorldCat, the book is in 967 libraries.^[6]
• Dae-Sook Suh; Chae-Jin Lee, eds. North Korea after Kim Il Sung Boulder, Colo: L. Rienner, 1996
• Dae-Sook Suh, ed. Korean Studies: new Pacific Currents. University of Hawaii, 1994
• Dae-Sook Suh Kim Il Sung: the North Korean Leader NY: Columbia Univ. Press, 1988/1995
• Dae-Sook Suh Korean Communism 1945–1989 : a reference guide. Univ. Hawaii Press. 1981
• Dae-Sook Suh New directions of domestic policy in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Univ. Calif., 1995 Press. 1981
• Dae-Sook Suh Koreans in the Soviet Union Univ. Hawaii Press. 1987
• Dae-Sook Suh The Korean Communist Movement 1918–1948. Princeton Univ. Press, 1967
• Dae-Sook Suh Documents of Korean Communism, 1918–48 Princeton Univ. Press, 1970. Calif., 1995 Press. 1981

See also

• Communism in Korea
• Kim Il Sung

References

Sources

• Tertitskiy. Fyodor. A Blatant Lie: The North Korean myth of Kim Il-sung liberating the country from Japan. Korea Observer. 49. 2. 2018. 219–238. 0023-3919. 10.29152/KOIKS.2018.49.2.219. free.

Notes and References

1. https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20220117054051505 '가짜 김일성론' 논파해 센세이션…정치학자 서대숙 박사 별세(종합)
2. Web site: 2022-09-17 . '가짜 김일성론' 논파해 센세이션…정치학자 서대숙 박사 별세(종합) . 2023-09-24 . . ko.
3. Book: Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader. 9780231065733. May 1995. Columbia University Press.
4. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36608890 WorldCat Thesis information page
5. Web site: Political Leadership in Korea. University of Washington Press. https://web.archive.org/web/20190713152217/http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/SUHPOL.html. 13 July 2019.
6. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898475100 WorldCat book page