Seoul National University (SNU), Korea

Prof. John Wells's visit, March 2002

3rd Seoul International Congress of Phonetic Sciences,
Joint Korean-Japanese Summit on English Phonetics,
and festschrift presentation for Prof. Lee Hyun-Bok

Photos: Masaki Taniguchi and John Wells. Click on a thumbnail to see the full-size picture.

The conference
JCW speaks at the opening ceremony. Seated: Hyun-Bok Lee1, Masaki Tsuzuki	JCW before his keynote speech Overcoming phonetic interference: English pronunciation for the Korean learner	It's difficult for Koreans to hear and make the distinction between pork and fork	A thank-you gift of pottery
Masaki Taniguchi2, from Fukuoka	Lee Ho-young3, the conference organizer	Prof. Lee Hyun-Bok. Behind him, Youe Mahn-Gunn4 and Masaki Tsuzuki	Prof. Park Choongyon5 with JCW
Presentation of the festschrift
JCW speaks about the importance of practical phonetics	Masaki Tsuzuki, President of the Phonetic Soc. of Japan	Prof. Lee Hyun Bok and his wife...	...and both of them with JCW
Sightseeing in central Seoul
Fishy snacks. Right: Masaki Taniguchi, Youe Mahn-Gunn, Yoshinari Fujino6	Taehanmun gate, Toksugung palace: Youe Mahn-Gun	Changing the guard	...cont.
Other places
In the hills north of Seoul: Lee Hoyoung and JCW	Lee Hoyoung and his wife, at their home	JCW as a guest of Lee Hoyoung and his wife	Yoshinari Fujino, JCW, Masaki Taniguchi, in the foyer of the Ho Am Faculty House, SNU

¹In the sixties Lee Hyun-Bok attended UCL and SOAS first as a graduate student and then as a Fellow of SOAS.
^{2, 4, 5}Masaki Taniguchi, Youe Mahn-Gunn, and Park Choongyon have all been academic visitors in the Dept. of Phonetics and Linguistics, UCL.
³Lee Hoyoung did his PhD under Prof. Wells's supervision at UCL.
⁶Yoshinari Fujino studied for the UCL MA in Phonetics.