서울대학교 현대한국종합연구단 서울대학교 현대한국종합연구단

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Research Teams

Comprised of nine research teams, each studying aspects of Korean politics, economy, technology, and culture.
We promote interdisciplinary collaboration and global academic exchange.

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  • KIM Joohyung

    Professor Joohyung Kim received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University, USA, and currently teaches in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Seoul National University. His research and teaching focus on modern and contemporary Western political thought, as well as the theory and practice of democracy. His current work emphasizes “democratic innovation” through the expansion and deepening of citizen participation, exploring both theoretical debates and practical cases of participatory, deliberative, and direct democracy in Korea and around the world. He also extends his research to include civic education and theoretical analyses of contemporary Korean politics. His major publications include “Populism and Democracy” (Journal of Korean Politics, 29(2), 2020), “A New Conceptualization and Typology of Democratic Innovations” (Journal of Contemporary Politics, 14(3), 2021), and “Political Theory of Democratic Innovations” (Korean Political Science Review, 57(1), 2023).

  • Hannes Mosler

    Professor Hannes Mosler is a faculty member at the Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST) and the Institute of Political Science (IfP) at the University of Duisburg–Essen, Germany, where he specializes in Korean politics and society. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Seoul National University and previously taught at the Institute of Korean Studies (IKS) and the Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS) at Freie Universität Berlin. He currently serves as Director of IN-EAST and Co-Director of the East Asia Research Area (AREA Ruhr). His main research interests include democracy, political institutions, comparative constitutionalism, civic education, and the politics of memory.

  • Hong Taiyoung

    Professor Taiyoung Hong teaches in the Department of Security and Defense Policy at Korea National Defense University. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from Seoul National University and completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, with a dissertation on The Liberal Foundations of the French Third Republic. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Korean Political Science Review (2021–22). His main research interests include liberalism, nationalism, republicanism, and the politics of modernity and postmodernity. His representative works include The Politics of the Nation-State (2008), The Politics of Identity (2011), Beyond the Nation-State (2019), Beyond Dichotomy (co-authored, 2020), Open Republicanism (co-authored, 2024), and The State in the Age of Great Transformation (co-authored, 2023).