{"id":19603,"date":"2026-05-11T01:49:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/?p=19603"},"modified":"2026-05-11T01:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:49:53","slug":"engineering-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/engineering-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Korea &#8211; The Modern History of Science and Technology in Korea: The Race Toward a Scientific Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Date:<\/strong> May 21st, Thursday, 2026, 16:00 &#8211; 18:00<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Presenter: Geun Bae Kim (Visiting Professor in School of Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences,<br \/>\nModerator: Chunwoong Park\u00a0(Department of Sociology, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Jeonbuk National University<\/span><\/span>)<br \/>\nDiscussants:<span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\"> Yeunchul<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Kim <\/span><\/span>(Institute for Social Sciences, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Pusan National University<\/span><\/span>), <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Heesun<\/span><\/span> Shin (SNUAC)<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"820\">The edited volume <em>Engineering Korea<\/em> by <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Geun Bae <\/span><\/span>Kim, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Sang Woon Yoo<\/span><\/span>, and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Yoojung Sun<\/span><\/span> introduces thirty engineers who worked in the field of engineering and technology that laid the foundations of Korean society. Amid the turbulent historical trajectory spanning colonialism, war, industrialization, and globalization, these engineers achieved technological innovation despite limited resources and difficult conditions, thereby constructing the groundwork for an advanced society. The book sheds light on the immense yet often overlooked journey of engineers behind Korea\u2019s industrialization and offers a new perspective for understanding the self-portrait of contemporary Korea as an \u201cEngineering Korea\u201d centered on science and technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: May 21st, Thursday, 2026, 16:00 &#8211; 18:00 Location: Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg. 101) Presenter: Geun Bae Kim (Visiting Professor in School of Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences, Moderator: Chunwoong Park\u00a0(Department of Sociology, Jeonbuk National University) Discussants: Yeunchul Kim (Institute for Social Sciences, Pusan National University), Heesun Shin (SNUAC) The edited volume Engineering Korea by Geun Bae Kim, Sang Woon Yoo, and Yoojung Sun introduces thirty engineers who worked in the field of engineering and technology that laid the foundations of Korean society. Amid the turbulent historical trajectory spanning colonialism, war, industrialization, and globalization, these engineers achieved technological innovation despite limited resources and difficult conditions, thereby constructing the groundwork for an advanced society. The book sheds light on the immense yet often overlooked journey of engineers behind Korea\u2019s industrialization and offers a new perspective for understanding the self-portrait of&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19605,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19603\/revisions\/19605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}