High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Currently, Seong-Kon Kim is President of the LTI Korea (Literature Translation Institute of Korea) in the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of South Korea. Kim is also Professor of English at Seoul National University where he was selected for the Distinguished Research Award for 7 times. A renowned literary critic, Kim is a co-editor of 21st Century Literature (since 1998) and a regularly featured columnist for the Korea Herald (since 2002). He is also a Research Member of the South Korea’s Presidential Committee on National Cohesion, and Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Korean Culture Overseas Promotion in the Ministry of Culture. Actively engaged in promoting Korean literature overseas, Kim is a member of the Advisory Committee on Korean literature of White Pine Press in New York, and Vice President of the Seoul Literary Society which consists of foreign ambassadors and high-ranking diplomats stationed in Seoul.