Scholar Kim In-sik Honored for Research on Minse Ahn Jae-hong’s Unifying Nationalism
Creatrip Team
4 months ago
The Minse Award committee recognized historian Kim In-sik, professor emeritus at Chung-Ang University, with the 16th Minse Award in the academic research category for his extensive work on Ahn Jae-hong (민세 安在鴻, 1891–1965). Kim, who earned his Ph.D. in 1997 with a dissertation on Ahn’s “new nationalism,” has published multiple studies on Ahn’s anti-colonial activism, state-building ideas, and public service records. He argues that Ahn’s “centrism” was not opportunistic but a supra-class, integrative form of nationalism aimed at genuine social harmony — a lesson relevant to today’s ideological and generational divides. Kim plans to publish a four-volume biography of Ahn based on decades of research. (Minse Award: an honor commemorating Ahn Jae-hong’s spirit of national unity)
