Research Interests

Aki SHIBUYA specializes in Korean linguistics and bibliography. Analyzes works mostly written in hangul from historical linguistic and bibliographic perspectives. More specifically, the current main project involves investigating relations between the existing editions of “Samgang-haengsil-do” and “Sok-Samgang-haengsil-do”, etc., published during the Joseon Dynasty period and creating their phylogenetic tree chart.

With broad interests extending to the morphology, word formation, and lexicology of the modern Korean language, also conducts research on color words found in the Korean language.

CV

2015       B.A. (Language and Area Studies), Korean Language Major, East Asian Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

2017       M.A. (Literature), Korean Language and Society, Department of Korean Studies, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo

2018       Department of Korean Language and Literature, Seoul University

2021       Ph.D. coursework completed without degree, Korean Language and Society, Department of Korean Studies, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo

2023       Ph.D. (Literature), Korean Language and Society, Department of Korean Studies, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo

2021-2023             Assistant Professor, Korean Language and Society, Department of Korean Studies, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo

2024       Current position

Books & Articles

“A Study of ‘Sok-samgang-haengsil-do’.” PhD diss., The University of Tokyo, 2023.

“On the Lexical Transition of the Color Noun 검정.” Kankoku-Chosen Bunka Kenkyu 22-1 (2023).

On the History of Words for ‘black’ in Korean, (Korean Culture22-1, 2023) . 

“Features of the British Library’s ‘Samgang-haensil-do’.” Chosen Gakuho 249 (2019).

Features of the British Library’s “Samgang–haensil-do”, (Journal of the Academic Association of Koreanology in Japan 249, 2019) .  

“Color Words in Modern Korean: Focusing on the word ‘Black’.” Journal of the Society for Korean Linguistics in Japan 7 (2017).

Awards

The Academic Association of Koreanology in Japan Award for Encouragement of Research, “Features of the British Library’s ‘Samgang-haensil-do’” (The Academic Association of Koreanology in Japan, 2022).