Suh Dae-sook (22 November 1931 – 13 September 2022)[2] was a South Korean[3] professor emeritus of political science and a director of the Centre for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii.[4]

Suh Dae-sook
Hangul
서대숙
Hanja
Revised RomanizationSeo Daesuk
McCune–ReischauerSŏ Tae-suk
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Suh was born in what is now North Korea, and defected to the South in 1946.[3] He worked as an interpreter during the Korean War, and left to study abroad in the United States at Texas Christian University in 1952.[3]

He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1964 with a thesis Korean Communism and the rise of Kim.[5] He also later worked as a researcher there.[3] In 1989, he was a visiting professor at Seoul National University. From 1999 to 2000, he worked as the Yongjae Distinguished Professor at Yonsei University.[3]

He was best known for the books Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader, published by Columbia University Press and considered the best work on the early life of Kim Il Sung,[1] and The Korean Communist Movement.[6] His works have been published or translated in English, Korean, Russian, and German.[citation needed]

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  • Dae-Sook Suh Korean Communism and the rise of Kim Columbia University. 1964 OCLC 23152559
  • Dae-Sook Suh; Chae-Jin Lee. Political Leadership in Korea Seattle:University of Washington Press, 2014. According to WorldCat, the book is in 967 libraries.[7]
  • Dae-Sook Suh; Chae-Jin Lee, eds. North Korea after Kim Il Sung Boulder, Colo: L. Rienner, 1996 ISBN 9781555877637
  • Dae-Sook Suh, ed. Korean Studies: new Pacific Currents. University of Hawaii, 1994 OCLC 29846186
  • Dae-Sook Suh Kim Il Sung: the North Korean Leader NY: Columbia Univ. Press, 1988/1995 ISBN 9780231065733
  • Dae-Sook Suh Korean Communism 1945–1989 : a reference guide. Univ. Hawaii Press. 1981 ISBN 9780824807405
  • Dae-Sook Suh New directions of domestic policy in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Univ. Calif., 1995 Press. 1981 ISBN 9780824807405
  • Dae-Sook Suh Koreans in the Soviet Union Univ. Hawaii Press. 1987 ISBN 9780824811266
  • Dae-Sook Suh The Korean Communist Movement 1918–1948. Princeton Univ. Press, 1967 OCLC 77304095
  • Dae-Sook Suh Documents of Korean Communism, 1918–48 Princeton Univ. Press, 1970. Calif., 1995 Press. 1981 ISBN 9780824807405

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