Eunjin Jung
정은진

Eunjin Jung is a PhD candidate in Linguistics and Linguistic Education at Korea University, South Korea. Her research focuses on investigating and explaining how the cultural and historical background of a society can influence certain linguistic changes. She particularly examines how the lives, perceptions, and cultures of Koreans are manifested within Korean vocabulary, idioms, and lexical collocations by adopting a diachronic perspective on language. The purpose is to represent the interrelationship and influence between language and culture as observed in the history of linguistic change. 

She has published papers and books on lexical changes in Korean and Korean Language History Education. During her time at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, she will be participating in the HYI Field Development Program in Linguistic and Semiotic Anthropology. Eunjin Jung has received the Award for Rising Korean Language Education Researchers and has worked as a researcher at the National Hangeul Museum in South Korea.