She is serving as a Senior Research Fellow at the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University. Her field of specialization is the history of East Asian political thought, and she has conducted research with an interest in kingship, bureaucracy, and Chosŏn society. Her current main research interest is tracing the translation, circulation, and transformation of knowledge between Europe and East Asia in the 17th to 19th centuries and their intellectual-historical meaning.

As a co-author, she has written Remapping the World from East Asia: Towards a Global History of the Ricci Map (2024). Recent articles include: “The East Asian Translation and Chains of Translation of Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws: Focusing on Political Concepts in the Japanese and Chinese Translations of The Spirit of the Laws in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century” (2021), “The Reading Method of Chosŏn Intellectuals toward Western Translated Books: Focusing on the Case of Chŏn Pyŏng-hun’s Chŏngsin Cheolhak Tongpyeon (精神哲學通編)” (2022), “The State Response to Catholicism before the 1801 Persecution and Its Political Meaning: From the Perspective of the Formation of Public Opinion on Catholicism and the Conservatization of Society” (2022), “Gaoli Zhiming Shilüe: An Intercultural, Interlaced Text between the Jesuits in Shanghai and the Missions Etrangères de Paris in Seoul” (2023), “The Formation and Refraction of Western Concepts: Focusing on the Discussions on Catholicism in the Byeokwi Sinpyeon (闢衛新編)” (2025).

Dr. Choongyeol Kim is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Sciences, Seoul National University. His research focuses on East Asian political thought, modern and contemporary Korean political thought, and comparative political theory. His publications include “The Origin of the Reformist Intellectuals’ Self-Deprecating Mentality: Effects of the Progressive Conception of Time in Late Nineteenth-Century Korea” (2012), “The Politics of Democratic and Procedural Legitimacy: New Ideas of Legitimacy in the Independence Club Movement in Late Nineteenth-Century Korea” (2017), “The Tension between Political Necessity and Ethical Ideals: Toward an Analytical Framework for Confucian Political Thought in the Joseon Dynasty” (2020), and “Balance in the Governance Concept of the Shujing: Focusing on the Idea of Virtue (德)” (2022), among others.

She is serving as an Invited Professor at Korea University’s College of International Studies, teaching students in the Global Korean Studies interdisciplinary major, and she is also active as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of International Affairs, Seoul National University. Her research fields are East Asian international relations history and postcolonialism, and she is interested in understanding the historical experiences of the Korean Peninsula in the 19th and 20th centuries within the context of global politics.

She received her Ph.D. with a dissertation that comparatively analyzed the processes of colonization of Chosŏn and Vietnam, focusing on protectorate treaties. Her major research includes: “The Reception of ‘National Self-Determination’ and the February 8th Independence Movement” (Dongyang jeongchi sasangsa, 11(1), 2012), “The Birth of the Norms of Inter-Korean Dialogue: The 1970s Inter-Korean Dialogue from a Constructivist Perspective” (Hanguk jeongchi oegyo sa nonchong, 2015), “The Transformation of United Vietnam’s Perceptions of International Politics during the Cold War: Focusing on the Communist Party Congress Reports and Tạp chí Cộng sản” (Asiatic Research, 67(4), 2024).

Associate Professor at the Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University. Jong-wook Hong received his B.A. in Korean History from Seoul National University and his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. After serving as a researcher at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Japan and as a full-time lecturer and associate professor at Doshisha University, he has held his current position since 2015.

His research interests include the ideological conversion of leftist intellectuals during the colonial period, the theory of immanent development in modern and contemporary Korean historiography, and the formation and development of North Korean historiography. He is also interested in applying digital humanities methodologies to historical research. 

His major publications include The Converts of Wartime Korea: Integration and Rupture of Colonial Empire (2011), Rereading Kajimura Hideki's Theory of Endogenous Development (co-authored, 2014), Thought Control and Conversion Policy under Japanese Rule (2024), and Nation and Revolution: Ideology and Practice of Colonial Socialism (2025). He has also co-translated Deconstructing World History (by Naoki Sakai et al., 2009) and Historical Ethnography of Modern Korea (by Itagaki Ryuta, 2015).

Associate Professor at the Seoul National University Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies. Professor Jung completed his undergraduate studies in sociology at Seoul National University and obtained both his master’s and doctoral degrees from the same institution. He has served as a visiting scholar at Kyoto University in Japan and as a research professor at the Hallym University Institute of Japanese Studies. His fields of expertise are historical sociology and the sociology of knowledge, with a sustained focus on how modern academia developed in the current institutionalized form in Korea.

He has published articles such as "Blood-based racism and colonial medicine" (Uisahak, 21(3), 2021), "The imperial Japanese library system and the Gyeongseong Imperial University library" (Society and History, 105, 2015) and "The Korean war and cold war social scientists" (Korean Studies, 59, 2020). His monographs include The faculty of law and letters at Gyeongseong Imperial University and Korean studies, and co-authored works include Colonial power and modern knowledge, Gyeongseong Imperial University and oriental studies, and Private professional schools in colonial Korea: Another origin of Korean universities. Together with fellow researchers, he continues to explore new potential research into the history of universities in Korea.

Associate Professor Jong-Hak Kim teaches in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Seoul National University. He also serves on the boards of the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, the Institute for Future Strategy, the Institute for Japanese Studies, and the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at SNU. His research interests include modern Korean political and diplomatic history, the history of political thought, and conceptual history. He previously worked as a Research Fellow at the Northeast Asian History Foundation and as Assistant Professor at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, where he also served as Head of the Diplomatic History Research Center.

Professor Kim has edited and compiled numerous collections of historical documents, including Modern Korean Diplomatic Documents (20 vols., 2010–2018), Sources on Modern Korea’s International Relations (2012), and Collection of Documents on Korea–Japan Treaties (2020). His major monographs include The Origins of the Enlightenment Party and Secret Diplomacy (2017) and Biography of Heungseon Daewongun (2021). His translations include Simhaeng ilgi: The Treaty of Ganghwa Recorded by Joseon (2010), Studies on Modern Japan–Korea Relations (2 vols., 2013/2016), Shinron (2016), and the Korean Translation of the Chosŏn Office Documents (5 vols., 2021–2025).

He has received several awards for his scholarship, including the 43rd Wolbong Academic Book Prize (2018), the Seoul National University Outstanding Thesis Award in Social Sciences (M.A. thesis, 2006; Ph.D. dissertation, 2015), and the Best Research Paper Award from the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (2021).