David E. Shaffer 신동욱
David E. Shaffer has lived and worked in Korea for many years. He is a professor of the English Language Department at Chosun University in Gwangju, South Korea, where he has taught since 1976.
Before relocating to Korea in the early 1970s, Dr. Shaffer lived in Pennsylvania, in the northeastern United States. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University and completed his graduate studies in English linguistics at Chosun University. In addition to teaching graduate and undergraduate courses, he has been active in English-teacher training and has authored several English-language instruction books, in addition to The Heavens, the Wind, the Stars and Poetry, a translation of the complete works of the poet Yun Dong-ju.
In the 1990s, Dr. Shaffer was especially active as a columnist for a number of Korean periodicals with nationwide readership. He has written on the English and Korean languages, as well as traditional and modern Korean culture. In 1993, he was the recipient of the Modern Korean Literature Translation award in poetry. Dr. Shaffer has also authored more than a dozen essays on Korea, including 『Sesi Customs』, which appears in the Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (2002), and a guide to learning Korean, Crackin’ the Corean Code (2005).
Dr. Shaffer is an active member of numerous academic associations in Korea, currently sitting on the executive boards of Asia TEFL and Korea TESOL (Korea Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages).
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