Suh Dae-sook

South Korean political scientist (1931–2022)

Suh Dae-sook
Hangul	서대숙
Hanja	徐大肅
Revised Romanization	Seo Daesuk
McCune–Reischauer	Sŏ Tae-suk
^[1]

Suh Dae-sook (22 November 1931 – 13 September 2022)^[2] was a South Korean^[3] professor emeritus of political science and a director of the Centre for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii.^[4]

Suh was born in what is now North Korea, and defected to the South in 1946.^[3] He worked as an interpreter during the Korean War, and left to study abroad in the United States at Texas Christian University in 1952.^[3]

He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1964 with a thesis Korean Communism and the rise of Kim.^[5] He also later worked as a researcher there.^[3] 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.^[3]

He was best known for the books Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader, published by Columbia University Press and considered the best work on the early life of Kim Il Sung,^[1] and The Korean Communist Movement.^[6] His works have been published or translated in English, Korean, Russian, and German.^{[citation needed]}

Publications

Dae-Sook Suh Korean Communism and the rise of Kim Columbia University. 1964 OCLC 23152559
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.^[7]
Dae-Sook Suh; Chae-Jin Lee, eds. North Korea after Kim Il Sung Boulder, Colo: L. Rienner, 1996 ISBN 9781555877637
Dae-Sook Suh, ed. Korean Studies: new Pacific Currents. University of Hawaii, 1994 OCLC 29846186
Dae-Sook Suh Kim Il Sung: the North Korean Leader NY: Columbia Univ. Press, 1988/1995 ISBN 9780231065733
Dae-Sook Suh Korean Communism 1945–1989 : a reference guide. Univ. Hawaii Press. 1981 ISBN 9780824807405
Dae-Sook Suh New directions of domestic policy in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Univ. Calif., 1995 Press. 1981 ISBN 9780824807405
Dae-Sook Suh Koreans in the Soviet Union Univ. Hawaii Press. 1987 ISBN 9780824811266
Dae-Sook Suh The Korean Communist Movement 1918–1948. Princeton Univ. Press, 1967 OCLC 77304095
Dae-Sook Suh Documents of Korean Communism, 1918–48 Princeton Univ. Press, 1970. Calif., 1995 Press. 1981 ISBN 9780824807405

References

Citations

^ ^a ^b Tertitskiy 2018, p. 221.
^ '가짜 김일성론' 논파해 센세이션…정치학자 서대숙 박사 별세(종합) 연합뉴스 17 September 2022
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "'가짜 김일성론' 논파해 센세이션…정치학자 서대숙 박사 별세(종합)". Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). 17 September 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
^ Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader. Columbia University Press. May 1995. ISBN 9780231065733.
^ WorldCat Thesis information page
^ "Political Leadership in Korea". University of Washington Press. Archived from the original on 13 July 2019.
^ WorldCat book page

Sources

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