Ahn Pyong-hi

Ahn Pyong-hi was a South Korean linguist.

Biography

Ahn was born on January 11, 1933 in Jinju, Korea, Empire of Japan. He graduated from the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Seoul National University. He worked as a professor at Konkuk University then at SNU beginning in 1968.
Ahn researched the historical linguistics of Korean, especially Hunminjeongeum. His master's thesis was on the grammar of 15th-century Korean.
He served as the president of the and the Bibliography Society of Korea and was a member of the Cultural Heritage Committee. In 1991, he was a central figure in the establishment of the National Institute of Korean Language and served as its first director. He oversaw the beginnings of the compilation of the Standard Korean Language Dictionary. He also oversaw language reform and regulation efforts at the NIKL.
In 2002, he received the Sejong Cultural Prize. In 2004, he was a recipient of the 8th.
He was married and had two sons and one daughter.