Background
Park was born in 1930 and graduated from Seoul National University with an undergraduate degree in French literature.
Park was born in 1930 and graduated from Seoul National University with an undergraduate degree in French literature.
He then attended the Sorbonne in Paris, from which he received a Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy.
Park spent 30 years as a professor in, Japan, Germany, France, and the United States. He taught in Boston until his retirement in 1993 at which point he returned to South of Korea where he taught at Pohang University and Yonsei University.