Ph.D. in English, The University of Birmingham, 1997
M.A. in Special Applications of Linguistics, The University of Birmingham, 1993
M.A. in English Linguistics, Seoul National University, 1987
B.A. in English Language and Literature, Seoul National University, 1985
Since 1998 Heokseung Kwon has been a professor of English Linguistics at Seoul National University mainly teaching English Corpus Linguistics and History of English. His research interests cover English Corpus Linguistics, English Historical Linguistics, Lexicography, and English for Specific Purposes.
Book publications
Understanding the History of English (in Korean, 2010)
Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction (in Korean, co-author, 2012)
Nuclear English: key terms and real examples (in Korean, co-author, 2016)
Corpus Linguistics: A Foundation (in Korean, co-author, 2018).
Book chapters
Korean lexicography from c. 1800 to the present, Cambridge World History of Lexicography (2019)
