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Changgil Kim served as the president of the Korea Rural Economic Research Institute and is currently a visiting scholar at Seoul National University Asia Center. Recently, he was appointed as the chairman of the Rural Subcommittee of the Presidential Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Policy. His research interests include agricultural economics and environmental economics. He is particularly interested in fostering agricultural human resources in developing countries and is working to build a Global Agricultural High-tech Network (GHAN). He is also researching climate-smart agriculture in response to climate change and food security in Southeast Asia

Daeun Lee is a PhD candidate in Comparative Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. Her research interests lie within mobility and migration studies, specifically focusing on the mobility of young people in Asia and transnational solidarity in Asian youth activism. Her PhD research explores foreigners’ “visa run” practices in Korea, which involve exiting and re-entering the country to extend their stay. She aims to examine how these “visa run” practices blur the boundaries between ‘legal vs illegal’ and ‘tourist vs migrant.’ Additionally, she seeks to identify the mobility rhythms and lifestyles created by regular and frequent border-crossings.

Dongsoo Kim is a ROK Naval Aviation Officer (O-5) with expertise in Maritime Security, Aerospace, Science Technology (ST), ICT, and Development Policy. Interesting parties in International Development Cooperation are North Korea and Africa. The main research projects are as follows. First, the Expansion Option of ROK PKO’s role in Humanitarian Assistance and Development in Africa. Second, the Development cooperation option of ST and ICT between South Korea and Africa.

Hojai Jung, an accomplished journalist and Ph.D. in Comparative Asian Studies, delves into Korea’s traditional-modern dynamics and explores the concept of “New Korean.” His journey spans various Asian countries, emphasizing Southeast Asia, interviewing influential figures like Thaksin and Mahathir. Completing his Ph.D. at NUS, he focuses on Asian media, examining state-run media in Myanmar and South Korea. His ongoing interests lie in comparative studies, particularly in Southeast and Northeast Asia, with a focus on media and cultural policy. Noteworthy books include “The Asian Age Comes Like K-Pop (2020)” and “Seeing the K Again (2021).”

Jaok Kwon is a sociologist and her research interests include the sociology of development, labor, gender, and transnational labor migration. Previously, she worked as a research fellow at the Max-Weber-Institute for Sociology at Heidelberg University. She also conducted postdoctoral research at Tohoku University and Hitotsubashi University in Japan after obtaining her PhD in sociology from Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan. Her work on socioeconomic issues in East Asia has been published in various journals, including Gender Studies, Labor History, International Journal of Japanese Sociology, and Korea Observer.

Junghwan Kim is a sociologist studying and teaching in the area of cultural sociology and social theory. Recently, he has been working on the imaginary of Korean democracy, the meaning of being ‘grown-up’ in Korea, and the problem of intimacy and publicness in Choi Eunyoung’s works.

Kyungjin Lee is a visiting research fellow at Seoul National University Asia Center and a lecturer at the Division of International Studies at Ajou University. Her research interests lie in industrial policies, state-business relations, and central-local relations in China. Throughout her fellowship at SNUAC, she has been working on the local implementation of China’s aggressive industrial policy in Guangdong. The project is a follow-up to her Ph.D. dissertation, exploring industrial upgrading in GVCs and the role of local governments in ICT industries. She holds a Ph.D. in International Political Economy from the School of International Studies, Peking University in China.

Mehtap Kara is a visiting fellow at Seoul National University Asia Center (SNUAC). She received her PhD in International Relations from Eastern Mediterranean University and works as an assistant professor at Bahçeşehir Cyprus University. Her articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Turkish Studies, and Uluslararası Iliskiler-International Relations. Kara’s research at the SNUAC focuses on hedging strategies of secondary states including Turkey, India, South Korea in great power competition. Kara’s research fellowship at SNUAC has been funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye.

Minju Cho, an art historian in east Asian art history, received a BA in Art History at Duksung Woman’s University in Korea and completed her MA in History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS and PhD in Art History at Tsinghua University. Her current research is focused on Chinese and Korean art. Recently she as an executive administrative-editor published a book titled “Korean Art from the Cultural Perspective of East Aisa”.

My Hang Thi Bui has recently defended her dissertation and is set to graduate in 2024 with a Ph.D. in Geography from Seoul National University. Her work engages with migrant studies, urban studies, and transnationalism. Given her Vietnamese background and academic training in South Korea, Bui has engaged in multi-sited ethnography and life-course approaches to investigate marriage migration, intra-group diversity within migrant communities, and transnational urban politics in the Asia-Pacific region. Her dissertation utilizes a place-based approach to explore the intertwining of historical and contemporary inter-Asian engagements in the politics of transnational placemaking between sister cities in South Korea and Vietnam.

Pan Seok Shin is a professor emeritus of Hongik University. He is a former Dean of PSM Graduate School and College of Science-Technology of Hongik University. Professor Shin has a B.A. in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, and a Ph.D. in Electric Power Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. He worked as a faculty researcher at the Oak-Ridge National Lab., USA in 2010, and has served as a member of Korea Standards Committee from 2014. He published several books and articles both in Korean and English.

Pavel P. Em is a Research Associate at the Center of Korean Studies, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Pavel obtained a PhD degree in urban geography from Moscow State University in 2013. His work primarily concerns urban development in North Korea and has been published in such journals as Cities and North Korean Review.

Sang-Hyun Yun, an assistant professor in Kyungnam University’s History Department, specializes in the evolution of individuality and human rights from the 19th to 20th centuries, with a focus on Korean liberalism, viewed through an East Asian lens. Earning her Ph.D. from Seoul National University, her dissertation probed Korea’s modern intellectual history. Her key publications include seminal works like “The Cold War and Historiography in East Asia” and “Nationalism in East Asia: Origins and Comparative Analyses.” Her research delves into the social psychology behind the liberal appropriation of the April Revolution, Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University among other scholarly endeavors.

Sung Chun Jung is a senior research fellow at KIEP (Korea Institute for International Economic Policy), where he has been doing his research on Japanese Economy since 2003. He got his Ph.D in Economics from Hitotsubashi University in 2002.

Suhyoung Sung received her Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 2021 and is currently an affiliated professor at Mokwon University. She specializes in researching medieval Buddhist art in East Asia, focusing on the Liao and Jin Pagodas. She is deeply interested in the synchronic and diachronic characteristics of religious art, faith, and rituals. Her current project involves studying the cave temples of the Northern Song and Jin Dynasties in Northern Shaanxi Province. Her research has been published in various journals, including the Korean Journal of Art History, The Journal of the Korean Association for Buddhist Studies, and the Palace Museum Journal (China).

Wonjung Min holds a Ph.D. in Latin American literature and focuses on the Asian diaspora in Latin America and the fandom of Asian pop culture in the Spanish-speaking world. She has worked at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) and is currently an associate researcher at the Asian Studies Center, UC. She is coauthor of Transnational Hallyu: The Globalization of Korean Digital and Popular Culture (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021) and editor of Estudios Coreanos para hispanohablantes: un acercamiento crítico, comparativo e interdisciplinario (Ediciones UC, 2015) and has published widely on the reception of Asian pop culture in Latin America.

Yunhee Kim earned her Ph.D. in Government and International Affairs at Durham University (UK). She researches security policy in the Global South, especially in connection with Sino-African relations. She has published articles such as “The Conception of ‘Community of Common Destiny’ with Africa through China’s Multilateralism -Concentrating on the Forum on China and Africa Cooperation-“, “China’s Strategy towards Africa in a multipolar world”, “The Intersection between Diplomatic Security and Cooperation: Korea’s Veteran Diplomacy Towards Türkiye”, and others. As a visiting fellow at SNUAC, she will conduct research on China’s security policy towards Africa from various points of view in accordance with the ever-changing international relations.