Paik Kap Yong (, 1914 - 1996) was a South Korean arachnologist.

Life

He was born in

Daegu Daegu (; ), formerly spelled Taegu and officially Daegu Metropolitan City (), is a city in southeastern South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; the fourth-largest List of provincial-level ci ...

Korea, Empire of Japan From 1910 to 1945, Korea was ruled by the Empire of Japan under the name Chōsen (), the Japanese reading of "Joseon". Japan first took Korea into its sphere of influence during the late 1800s. Both Korea (Joseon) and Japan had been under polic ...

in 1914, and had his secondary schooling in Daegu and then in

Kyoto Kyoto ( or ; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it t ...

, Japan. In 1941, he became a graduate of the Department of Agriculture at Miyazaki High School of Agriculture and Forestry in Japan. On his return to Korea in 1941, he first worked at the Entomology Department at the Suwon Agricultural Research Institute, and then as a secondary school teacher. In 1945 he became an assistant professor at Suwon Agricultural College, which was followed in 1946 by working as a technician in the Pathology Entomology Department at the

Suwon Suwon (; ) is the largest city and capital of Gyeonggi Province, South Korea's most populous province. The city lies approximately south of the national capital, Seoul. With a population of 1.2 million, Suwon has more inhabitants than Ulsan, tho ...

Central Agricultural Research and Extension Services. In 1948 he was diagnosed with

tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is a contagious disease usually caused by ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can al ...

. After spending about 10 years recovering, he became a lecturer at the Department of Science Education at

Kyungpook National University Kyungpook National University (; abbreviated as KNU or Kyungdae ()) is one of ten Flagship Korean National Universities representing Gyeongbuk Province in South Korea. It is located in Daegu, which used to be the capital city of the Gyeong ...

's College of Education in January 1957, where he remained for the rest of his working life, teaching new zoologists and taxonomists, and receiving many awards for his work. in 1964, he received a Ph.D. in science from Kyungpook National University. His zoological author name is "Paik".

Some taxa authored

* ''Agelena jirisanensis'' * '' Shiragaia'' Park, 1992
wikidata query listing taxa authored by Paik
* :Taxa named by Paik Kap Yong

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Paik, Kap Yong 1914 births 1996 deaths People from Daegu South Korean biologists Korean expatriates in Japan Academic staff of Kyungpook National University