IASS Election: Kim Sung Do Vice-President Candidature

Candidate for Vice-President (Asia)

KIM SUNG DO
Seoul, Korea

I was born in 16^th of July 1963 in Seoul, Korea. After I graduated from Korea University more than thirty years ago, I earned my Master and Ph.D in linguistics in Paris 1987 and 1991.

First of all, I would like to emphasize that I have demonstrated successful leadership for the Korean Association of Semiotic Studies (2013-2014) and the Korean Association for Visual Culture Studies (2015-2018). Furthermore, I have headed the Center for Applied Cultural Sciences that I founded in 2006 in Korea University where I have worked for 26 years as a professor of semiotics and cultural and visual theory.

Through my regular participations in the congress of the IASS (Berkeley, Guadalajara, Dresden, Lyon, Coruna, Nanjing, Sophia, Kaunas), I obtained a good knowledge of the IASS. I have published my works in international journals of semiotics and linguistics such as Semiotica, Degres, Signata, Zeitschrifte fur Semiotik, Sign System Studies, etc.

I have also contributed to the field of semiotics, linguistics and humanities in Korea as a translator of some important figures of modern semiotics such as Derrida, Peirce, Saussure, Greimas.

In the meantime, I have accumulated many experiences of global scholarship career by being invited as a visiting scholar by Oxford University (2001-2002), Harvard University (2008-2009, as a Fulbright Senior Scholar) and Cambridge University (2012-2013).

Among my honorable achievements in my academic career, I am especially proud of my myself when I received the prize of the Mouton d’Or in 1994 for my paper on the new horizon of Saussurean semiology.

Platform of the candidate for the future of the IASS

As you are all aware, the IASS has assumed a significant vocation in the history of contemporary humanities and social sciences since its creation in 1969. I am honored to make a candidature for the position of vice-president Asia and would like to thank all members of the IASS bureau and the IASS executive committee for their support and confidence in considering me for this position. I have been a long-standing member of the IASS and have served on the Board of the IASS executive committee.

If re-elected, I promise to focus on promoting the scientific exchange between Asian scholars. I would be honored to serve the IASS as a vice-president and life-long advocate for the IASS vision of ensuring all members have access to a high quality of semiotic works.

There is still a lot to do over the next five years and I wish to continue to serve the vice-president Asia. Specifically, I plan to pursue the following activities at the board level:

Advance the social role of semiotics in the new system of knowledge in the digital era
Enhance commons and support between the IASS and other institutions to move the IASS standing by improving and expanding actions with other scientific organizations
Provide a platform of scientific exchange among young and senior semioticians in Asia
Bureau post for which the candidacy is offered

Vice-President Asia