Past Fellows and Scholars
2019-2020
Olga Fedorenko
Visiting Scholar, September 2019- December 2019
Ms. Fedorenko’s research interests include: media and society, advertising, popular culture, new media
Assistant Professor, Seoul National University
Hye Eun Choi
Visiting Scholar, September 2019 – August 2020
Ms. Choi is conducting research on the making of the recording industry
in colonial Korea, 1910-1945.
2018 – 2019
Hye Eun Choi
Visiting Scholar, September 2018 – August 2019
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Korean Foundation, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ms. Choi is conducting research on the making of the recording industry
in colonial Korea, 1910-1945.
So-Rim Lee
CKR-AKS Postdoctoral Fellow
September 2018 – August 2019
2017-2018
Hyaeweol Choi
Visiting Scholar, August 1, 2017 – December 31, 2017
Professor of Korean Studies, Australian National University
Faculty Sponsor: Theodore Hughes
Research Interests: Preparation of a book manuscript tentatively entitled Beyond Domestic Borders: Transnational Mobility in the Making of Modern Korea, 1920 – 1939 and lay the groundwork for a future collaborative research project tentatively entitled “Between the Sacred and the Secular: Religion as Lived Experience in Modern Korea”
Soo Jin Hong
Professional Associate, January 1, 2017 – December 31, 2017
Reporter, Korea Broadcasting System (KBS)
Research Interests: How to Report on North Korea
Ruth Barraclough
Visiting Scholar, August 26 – October 8, 2017
Senior Lecturer, School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University
Institute Faculty Sponsor: Theodore Hughes
Research Interests: labour history, capitalism, gender studies, Korean literature and literary translation, and biography
Mi Jung Park
Professional Associate, September 28, 2016 – September 27, 2017
Deputy Director, The Chosun Ilbo
Contact Information: mp3538@columbia.edu
Research Interest: Comparative Study on Media in South Korea and the United States
2016-2017
Jeong Yon Kim
Professional Associate, September 1, 2016 – August 31, 2017
Director, Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, Republic of Korea
Contact Information: jk4004@columbia.edu
Research Interests: The Contribution of the Korean Methodist Church and Institute to the Korean Independence Movement in the U.S. during Japanese Colonial Rule
2015-2016
Boyun Choi
Professional Associate, September 1, 2015-August 31, 2016
Staff Writer, Chosun Ilbo
Contact Information: bc2654@columbia.edu
Research Interest: Analysis of Cognition and Evaluation on the Leadership of the Korean President Park Geun-hye regarding reunification of the Korean Peninsula
Bong-Ki Jeon
Professional Associate, September 1, 2015- August 31, 2016
Chief Health & Welfare Reporter, MBC News
Contact Information: bj2343@columbia.edu
Research Interest: The Influence of Kim Jong-Un’s Leadership on North Korean Policies
Sunghoon Kim
Professional Associate, September 1, 2015- December 31, 2015
Government Officer, Republic of Korea
Contact Information: sk4035@columbia.edu
Research Interest: The Effect of the Relationship between North Korea and the U.S. on the Situation of Northeast Asia & The Role of the U.S. and South Korea’s Counterplan for a Unified Korea
Young Lan Kim
January 2016 – December 2016
Professor, Department of Social Psychology, Sookmyung Women’s University (SWU)
Ms. Kim is conducting research on “Asian Values and Cultural Diversity in East Asia.”
Contact Information: yk2359@columbia.edu
Institute Faculty Sponsor: Theodore Hughes
Nam Geun Kwon
Professional Associate, August 1, 2015- July 31, 2016
Team Leader, Investigative Reporting Team, The Herald Business
Contact Information: nk2645@columbia.edu
Research Interest: The Current State of and Development Prospects for Data Journalism through the Intense Case Study of Media in Advanced Nations Including the U.S.
Jung-Shim Lee
September 2015 – September 2016
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Leiden University
Dr. Lee is conducting research on “Buddhist Writers in Colonial Korea: Rethinking Korean Literature, Religion, and History during the Colonial Period, 1910 – 1945.”
Contact Information: jl4610@columbia.edu
Institute Faculty Sponsor: Theodore Hughes
Hyun Ok Park
September 2015 – September 2016
Associate Professor, York University
Professor Park is conducting research on “Interpreting the Present: The Return of Universal Politics and World Historical Time in and beyond South Korea.”
Contact Information: hp2421@columbia.edu
Institute Faculty Sponsor: Jungwon Kim
2014-2015
Dima Mironenko
Korea Foundation Postdoc Fellow, August 2014 to June 2015
Harvard University
Faculty Sponsor: Theodore Hughes
Contact Information: dima.mironenko@post.harvard.edu
Dima Mironenko received his Ph.D. in Korean History from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University in 2014. His dissertation, “A Jester with Chameleon Faces: Laughter and Comedy in North Korea, 1953-1969,” is a study of the DPRK’s cultural, social, and film histories during the formative post-Korean War decades. Building on Michel de Certeau’s concept of the everyday, his work examines the emergence of a laughing subject in the North Korean context and the state’s efforts to discipline him through cinema. Dima was born in the former Soviet Union and received his B.A. in International Relations from MGIMO University in Moscow in 2005. He spent a semester as an exchange student at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang in 2000. While on the Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dima will revise and expand his dissertation, while pursuing a couple of new projects on North Korean cinema and the history of gender.
Jiyoung Shin
Visiting Scholar, March 2014 to March 2015
Full-time Researcher, Department of Comparative Society and Culture
Institute of Korean Studies (Kookhakwon), Yonsei University
Faculty Sponsor: Theodore Hughes
Contact Information: boltaguni@daum.net
Shin Ji Young received her Ph.D. in Korean Literature from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, and is now a researcher at the Institute for the Research of Comparative Societies and Cultures in the Department of Korean Studies at Yonsei University. Her dissertation focused on the formation, changes, and eventualities of discursive spaces during the colonial period in Korea. It was published in Korea under the title, “The Age of Ab-sense: A Study of Speeches and Round-table Talks in Modern Enlightenment and Colonial Korea.” It will be published in Japanese this year.
Ji Young has also completed coursework for a second doctoral degree in Sociolinguistics at the Graduate School of Language and Society at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. From 2010 to 2011, she was a post-doctoral fellow at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, sponsored by the National Research Foundation of Korea. She has now extended her area of study from colonial Korea to East Asia, focusing on the relationships between colonized intellectuals, especially from Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. She is interested in the colonial encounters and contact between racial, ethnic and social groups from the end of the colonial period to the immediate post-war period.
2013-2014
Sun Hui Yi
Visiting Scholar, September 2012 to September 2014
Researcher, Jangseogak Institute, The Academy of Korean Studies
Contact Information: sy2453@columbia.edu
Dr. Yi is conducting research on “A Comparative Study on City’s Spatial Expansion and Administrative Changes during the 18th and 19th Century, Focusing on Joseon Hanseongbu and New York.”
Ruth Barraclough
August 2013 to July 2014
Lecturer, School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University
Institute Faculty Sponsor: Theodore Hughes
Contact Information: ruth.barraclough@anu.edu.au
Dr. Barraclough is conducting research on Korea’s early communist women.
Yunseong Kim
Visiting Scholar, February 2013 to January 2014
Associate Professor, Dept. of Religion & Culture, Hanshin University
Contact Information: ysk2122@columbia.edu
Prof. Kim is conducting research on the role of religions in the formation of modern masculinity in Korea.
Kwangsoo Kim
Professional Associate, January 2013 – December 2013
Chief Producer of Entertainment Department, Korea Broadcasting System
Faculty Sponsor: Theodore Hughes
Contact Information: kk2921@columbia.edu
Mr. Kim will study the relationship between television and new media.
2012-2013
Hyungjoon Jo
Professional Associate, January 2012 – December 2013
Editor in Chief, Saemulgyul Publishing House
Faculty Sponsor: Theodore Hughes
Contact Information: hj2330@columbia.edu
Mr. Jo is interested in the future of the publishing industry in the digital transformation.
Jia Hong
Visiting Scholar, September 2012 – June 2013
Associate Professor, Department of Journalism and Communication, Kyung Hee University
Contact Information: jh3317@columbia.edu
Ms. Hong is conducting research on “The Identity Negotiation Process of Current Korean Migrant youths in the U.S.
2011-2012
Hyungjoon Jo
Institute Associate, January 2012 – December 2012
Editor in Chief, Saemulgyul Publishing House
Faculty Sponsor: Theodore Hughes
Contact Information: hj2330@columbia.edu
Mr. Jo is interested in the future of the publishing industry in the digital transformation.
Wong-Jang Kim
Institute Associate, January 2012 – December 2012
Reporter, Korea Broadcasting System
Contact Information: ywk2238@columbia.edu
Mr. Kim will research the impact of the financial deregulation analysis.
Hoekyung Yoo
Institute Associate, January 2012 – December 2012
Reporter, Munhwa Ilbo
Faculty Sponsor: Theodore Hughes
Contact Information: yhy2334@columbia.edu
Mr. Yoo is studying the trends of US and Korean news services.
2010-2011
Jeong, Eunseung (Institute Associate, WEAI)
September 2010 to August 2011
Announcer, Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)
Research Interest: new media strategies
Jeong, Yong Sil (Professional Fellows, WEAI)
January 2010 to January 2011
Senior Announcer, Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)
Research Interest: modern Korean Literature
Jun, Yongwoo (Professional Fellow, WEAI)
September 2010 to August 2011
TV Reporter of Korea New Network (KNN)
Research Interests: political Communication, Voting and Electorate
Kang, Yoonhee (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
September 2010 to August 2011
Associate Professor of International Studies, Kookmin University
Research Interest: Studies of civic organizations in Korea: their role in the recent political mobilization
Kim, Jiyeon (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
September 2010 to August 2011
Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interest: Art and Social Network in Late Choson, Korea
Kim, Tae-Ho (Visiting Scholar,WEAI)
September 2010 to June 2011
Dr. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies, Seoul National University, 2009)
Research Interests: science, technology and mass mobilization in South Korea in the 1970s
Kim, Young-ha (Visiting Scholar, EALAC)
September 2010 to June 2011
Fiction Writer
Research Interests: Immigration History
Kwon, Sun-hong (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
February 2010 to February 2011
Professor of International Relations, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
Research Interest: East Asian International relations
Lee, Byung Ryul (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
September 2010 to August 2011
Professor of Creative Writing, MyungJi University, South Korea
Research Interest: modern Korean poetry
Nam, Jin Woo (Visiting Scholar, EALAC)
September 2010 to August 2011
Professor of Public Administration in a Culture and Society,Wooksuk University, South Korea
Research Interest: East Asia’s present and future views of Americans
Park Enna (Institute Associate, WEAI)
March 2010 to February 2011
Minister Counselor, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to UN
Research Interest: the current trends in Chinese foreign policy
Shin, Kyung Sook (Visiting Scholar, EALAC)
September 2010 to August 2011
Novelist
Research Interest: modern Korean literature
Yuk, Eun Joo (Institute Associate, WEAI)
January 2010 to December 2010
General Manager, Samsung Engineering
Research Interest: Korea’s political leadership in the East Asian region
2009-2010
Han, Man-soo (VisitingScholar, EALAC)
September 2009 to June 2010
Professor of Modern Korean Literature, Dongguk University, South Korea
Research Interests: Modern Korean Literature
Kim, Borim (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
March 2009 to February 2010
Professor of Korean History, Chongshin University, South Korea
Research Interests: Korean History and Education
Lee, Doo Won (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
September 2009 to August 2010
Professor, School of Economics, Yonsei University, South Korea
Research Interests: Korean Economics
Lee, Kang-Kook (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
August 2008 to August 2010
Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University
Research Interests: East Asian Economics
Nagata, Akifumi (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
March 2009 to March 2010
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Sophia University
Research Interests: Korean Politics
Nah, Jeong Won (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
February 2008 to February 2010
Professor of Political Science, Kang Won National University, South Korea
Research Interests: Korean Economics
2008-2009
Goma Pinilla, Daniel (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
September 2007 to August 2009
Assistant Professor of History, University of Barcelona
Research Interests: China-North Korean Relations
Hong, Changsoo (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
January 2008 to December 2008
Associate Professor, Department of Creative Writing, Korea University
Research Interests: Korean Literature
Joung, Bo Youn (POSCO Fellow, CKR)
August 2008 to July 2009
Head of Social Enterprise Team, Dobong Citizen’s Association, South Korea
Research Interests: Grassroots Movements and Social Change in South Korea
Lee, S.R. (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
September 2008 to August 2009
Professor, Department of Economics, Dongguk University, South Korea
Research Interests: Korean Economics
Lee, Shin-Wha (Visiting Professor, WEAI)
Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Korea University
Research Interests: Korean Politics
Lee, Taeho (POSCO Fellow, CKR)
August 2008 to July 2009
Deputy Secretary General, People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, South Korea
Research Interests: Comparative Study of Civilian Control in American vs. Korean Security Policy
Nah, Jeong Won (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
February 2008 to February 2010
Professor of Political Science, Kang Won National University, South Korea
Research Interests: Korean Economics
Shin, Yongdo (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
December 2007 to December 2008
Head of Security Strategy Division, RINSA, KNDU
Research Interests: Korean Economics
2007-2008
Baik, Il (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
August 2007 to August 2008
Assistant Professor of Distribution and Management, Ulsan College
Research Interests: Korean Economics and Reunification
Kang, Sungbong (POSCO Fellow, CKR)
August 2007 to July 2008
Secretariat General, The Educational Foundation for Koreans Abroad
Park, Heesun (POSCO Fellow, CKR)
August 2007 to July 2008
Civil Solidarity for Open Society
2006-2007
Ha, Seung Chang (POSCO Fellow, CKR)
August 2006 to July 2007
Hankyoreh Foundation for Reunification and Culture
Kim, Bogeun (POSCO Fellow, CKR)
August 2006 to July 2007
Citizens’ Action Network
Lim, Chol (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
October 2006 to March 2007
Professor, International and Cultural Studies, Tsuda College
Research Interests: North/South Korea Relations
2005-2006
Choi, Young-Ae (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
March 2005 to February 2006
Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Yonsei University, South Korea
Research Interests: Chinese and Korean Phonology
Gelezeau, Valerie (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
September 2005 to December 2006
Associate Professor, Marne-la-Valle University, France
Research Interests: Urban, Cultural, and Regional Geography of Korea
Hong, Sook Ja (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
September 2005 to August 2006
Associate Professor, Health & Social Welfare Department, Woosung University, South Korea
Research Interests: Development of Life Education Programs in Korea
Lee, Dong Ryul (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
August 2005 to September 2006
Associate Professor, Dongduk Women’s University, South Korea
Research Interests: Chinese Foreign Policy
Paik, Won Dam (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
September 2005 to August 2006
Assistant Professor, Sungkong Hoe University, South Korea
Research Interests: “Asianism” in the Colonialism and Post Cold War Era
Yoo, Yoon-Ha (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
September 2005 to August 2006
Professor, KDI School of Public Policy and Management, South Korea
Research Interests: Korean Economics
2004-2005
Choi, Kyoo-Sik (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
January 2005 to December 2005
Staff Reporter, Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)
Research Interests: UN and relationship with NGOs
Chong, Daham (Visiting Scholar, WEAI)
September 2004 to August 2005
Ph.D. Candidate, Korea University
Research Interests: Early Choson Korea and its Cultural Practices
Hwang, Soo-Kyung (Professional Fellow, WEAI)
September 2004 to September 2005
Announcer, Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)
Research Interests: Influence of the Media in US-Korean Relations
Park, Jung-Sook (Professional Fellow, WEAI)
September 2004 to August 2005
Announcer, Munwha Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) and Adjunct Professor, Seoul Women’s University
Research Interests: International Media and Communications
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