Graduate and Professional Schools

Yunghi Choi

A.B. (1975), MA from Harvard Graduate School of Design (1979)

Yunghi Choi (Ch’oe Yŏng-hŭi, 최영희) is an accomplished Korean-American landscape architect and a proud graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design during a time when very few Korean women were able to attend. [1] Her work ranges...

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Herbert Choy

B.A. (1938) from University of Hawaii; J.D. (1941) from Harvard Law School

Herbert Choy (Ch’oe Yŏng-jo, 최영조, 1916–2004) was the first person of Korean ancestry to be admitted to the bar in the United States, and the first Asian American to be appointed as a United States federal judge. [1] Choy was born on January 6, 1916 in the...

Kyung Durk Har

A.B. (1925), A.M. (1927), Ph.D. (1928)

Kyung Durk (K.D.) Har (Ha Kyŏng-dŏk, 하경덕 河敬德, 1897–1951) was a sociologist, publisher, and public intellectual. Kyung Durk Har was born on July 25, 1897 in Iksan, Chŏlla Province, in the present-day South Korea. The eldest of three boys and three girls...

Younghill Kang

B.A. (1925) from Boston University; M.Ed. (1927) from Harvard University

Younghill Kang (Kang Yong-hŭl, 강용흘, 姜鏞訖, 1898?–1972) was an acclaimed and pioneering Korean American writer. Kang has been credited as the first Korean American novelist and “the Pioneer of Asian American Literature.” [1] His semi-autobiographical novels...

Andrew Ho Kang

B.S. (1957) from Wofford College; M.D. (1962) from Harvard University

Andrew Ho Kang (강호, 姜虎, 1934–present) is the Goodman Professor and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee. [1] He overcame adversity and tragedy as a young man growing up...

Joungwon Kim

Harvard College (1956–1957); B.S. (1962) from Columbia University; M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1967) from Johns Hopkins University; J.D. (1973) from Harvard Law School

Joungwon Alex Kim (Kim Chŏng-wŏn, 김정원, 金正源 , meaning “Correct Origin,” 1936-2023) [1] was one of the first Koreans to receive a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School and practice as an attorney on Wall Street. Kim was born on December 13, 1936, in...

Lena Kim

B.A. (1964) from Seoul National University; A.M. (1966) and Ph.D. (1972) from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Lena Kim (Kim Ri-na, 김리나, 金理那, 1942–present) was one of the first Koreans to obtain a PhD degree in art history from the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard.She was an esteemed professor of Korean and Buddhist art at Hongik University from 1976 until she...

Samuel H. Kim

A.B. (1958), M.D. (1962)

Samuel Homer Kim (Kim Sang-yŏl 김상열, 1936–present) was one of the earliest second-generation Korean Americans to have graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. [1] He went on to have a long, productive career in medicine as a pediatric...

Hyung Lin Kim

Hyung Lin Kim (Kim Hyŏng-nin, 김형린 金瀅璘, 1899–1990) [1] was an educator, businessman, and a leader of the Korean community in New York City. [2] Kim was a native of Kanggye, North P’yŏngan Province. [3] In 1920, Kim graduated from Union Christian College of...

Kwang Lim Koh

L.L.B. (1945) from Keijō Imperial University Law School; M.A. (1950) and Ph.D. (1953) from Rutgers University; LL.M. (1952) and S.J.D. (1955) from Harvard Law School; LL.B. (1955) from Boston College Law School

Kwang Lim Koh (Ko Kwang-nim, 고광림, 高光林, meaning “Shining Forest,” 1920–1989) was the first Korean to receive both a master’s and a doctorate degree from Harvard Law School. [1] Koh was born on October 20, 1920, in Cheju (Jeju) Island in Japanese-occupied...

Myo Mook Lee

Myo Mook Lee (Yi Myo-muk 이묘묵 李卯默; 1902–1957) was a Korean educator and politician who worked as an interpreter for the American Military Government and as a diplomat for the South Korean government. Lee was born in the Pyongyang area in 1902, the second...

Kyunghoon Claude Lee

B.A. (1967) from Seoul National University; M.B.A. (1969) from Harvard Business School

Kyunghoon Claude Lee (Yi Kyŏng-hun 李慶勳, 1944–present), one of the earliest Koreans who studied at the Harvard Business School, was a successful businessman. [1] Lee was born on July 17, 1944, in Seoul, Korea, as the first child of Yi To-yŏng (李道榮, 1913...