Work of Dr. Sung-Deuk Oak (’02) Receives 3 Book Prizes
CGCM alumnus Dr. Sung-Deuk Oak (’02) has received three prizes for the revised and expanded Korean edition of The Making of Korean Christianity. The Korea Christian Publishers Association recently announced it as “Book of the Year,” which is a highly prestigious prize in the country. The book also received the prize for the best book in theology by the Kungmin Daily News. Finally, the book was named a King Sejong academic book (one of twenty) by the Korean government.
Dr. Oak is also the author of History of the Korean Bible Society III, 1945-2002, which is his first book dealing with the postliberation period in Korea and which represents the fruit of his thirty years of study on Korean Bible translation. He also plans to publish at least four books in the coming year.