An Byeong-jik (born 1936) or Ahn Byong-jick is a Professor Emeritus at
Seoul National University
Seoul National University (SNU; ) is a national public research university located in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 1946, Seoul National University is largely considered the most prestigious university in South Korea; it is one of the three "S ...
and a co-founder of the
Naksungdae Institute of Economic Research.
He is the representative director of the
New Right Foundation. His research focuses on economic history during the
Korea under Japanese rule
Between 1910 and 1945, Korea was ruled as a part of the Empire of Japan. Joseon Korea had come into the Japanese sphere of influence with the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876; a complex coalition of the Meiji government, military, and business offic ...
.
He disclosed a diary by a manager of World War II Japanese military brothels and published a book called ''
Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager
''Diary of a Japanese Military Comfort Station Manager'' is a book of diaries written by a clerk who worked in Japanese "comfort stations", where the Japanese military trafficked women and girls into sexual slavery, in Burma and Singapore during ...
'' in 2013.
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Academic career
An was born in Haman
Haman ( ; also known as Haman the Agagite or Haman the evil) is the main antagonist in the Book of Esther, who according to the Hebrew Bible was an official in the court of the Persian empire under King Ahasuerus, commonly identified as Xerxes I ...
in 1936. He was graduated from Department of Economics, Seoul University. He received a master's degree in economics. He became a professor of Seoul National University College of Social Sciences. He was appointed a professor emeritus at Seoul National University in 2001.
Works
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See also
*Park Yu-ha
Park Yu-ha (박유하, 朴裕河; born March 25, 1957) is a professor at the College of Liberal Arts, Sejong University. Her research focuses on Japanese-Korean relations. Her 2013 book '' Comfort Women of the Empire'' criticized the Korean inter ...
*Lee Young-hoon
Lee Young-hoon (이영훈, 李榮薰, born 1951 in Daegu, South Korea), Lee Yong-hoon, Rhee Yong-hoon, or Yi Yŏnghun is a former professor of economics at Seoul National University and the president of the Naksungdae Institute of Economic Res ...
References
External links
Naksungdae Institute of Economic Research
in Korean
Living people
South Korean historians
Academic staff of Seoul National University
1936 births
People from Haman County
Comfort women
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