Iksop Lee

Iksop Lee is a South Korean linguist.

Biography

Lee was born in 1938 in Gangneung, Korea, Empire of Japan. He received his Bachelor of Arts from the Department of Korean Language and Literature of Seoul National University. He received his PhD in literature from there as well. From 1963 to 1969, he was an assistant professor at Jeonbuk National University. From 1969 to 2003, he was a professor at the Department of Kroean Language and Literature at SNU. He retired that year, although he continued researching and publishing.
He was a visiting scholar at the Harvard–Yenching Institute from 1976 to 1977 and at University of Maryland, College Park in 1996.
From 1996 to 1997, he served as the president of the Korean Language Society. From 1997 to 1999, he served as director of the National Institute of Korean Language.
In 2011, he began compiling a dictionary of the dialect in Gangneung. He published the Gangneung Dialect Materials Dictionary in 2022.