About JaHyun Kim Haboush
JaHyun Kim Haboush received her PhD from Columbia University in 1978. She went on to teach at Queens College of the City University of New York and the University of Illinois before returning to Columbia as the King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies in 2000. During her prolific career, she has published widely on the history, literature, and society of premodern Korea. In additional to numerous articles, she is also the author of The Confucian Kingship in Korea: Yŏngjo and the Politics of Sagacity and edited several books, including Culture and the State in Late Chosŏn Korea. She also translated Hanjungnok into English, as The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng, which received the 3rd Korean Literature Translation Award in 1997. The translation has also been released in a second edition in 2013.
Other notable contributions include Epistolary Korea: Letters in the Communicative Space of the Chosŏn, 1392–1910 and A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600: The Writings of Kang Hang, co-edited and translated with Kenneth P. Robinson.
Before JaHyun Kim Haboush passed away in 2011, she was also working on a larger research project concerning the emergence of a Korean discourse of nation during the Imjin War of 1592–1597. Though the project was left unfinished, a portion of her research has been published as the The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation in 2016.