Ho-min Sohn

Ho-min Sohn is a South Korean linguist.
Sohn was born in Suncheon, Zenranan Province, Korea, Empire of Japan. He graduated from Seoul National University with a bachelor's degree in 1956 and a master's degree in linguistics in 1965. He graduated from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with a Ph.D. in linguistics in 1969. He began teaching at UH in 1971. By 1980 he was a professor in the Department of East Asian Studies. He became the director of UH's Korean Studies Center in 2004.
Sohn authored over twenty textbooks for the Korean language.
He received a Presidential Citation from South Korea in 1997. In 2011, he received the Korea Foundation Award, given by the Korea Foundation.