Soo-Ah Kim is an associate professor at Seoul National University, Department of Communication & Interdisciplinary Program in Gender Studies. Kim studied the cultural studies at Seoul National University. Related to the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery Issue, Kim participated in the testimony team of testimony book, Forcibly Taken Korean Military ‘Comfort Women’ 4: History Rewritten through Memories (2001). Professor Kim’s research area has mainly been popular culture with a focus on feminism, and she currently works intensively on gender aspects in the area of digital media literacy. Publications include “The #MeToo Movement and Korean Journalism: Comments on Online News Coverage of the Trial of Former Governor Ahn Hee-jung” (2020, Journal of Asian Sociology, 49(4)) and Logout, safely(2021, Book, in Korean), Game Contents and Gender Representation(2023, Book, in Korean).

Dr. Hae-young Seong is an associate professor in the department of religious studies at Seoul National University. He is a scholar specializing in the psychology of religion and mysticism, with particular expertise in comparative religious studies, the interplay between institutional religion and personal spirituality, and evolving trends in religiosity. He earned his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Rice University in 2008, after completing his M.A. and B.A. at Seoul National University. Some of his recent research covers "Freudian and Abhinavaguptan concepts of desire"(프로이트와 아비나바굽타(Abhinavagupta)의 종교사상 비교: 욕망과 욕망의 승화 개념을 중심으로, 2009) and sublimation, as well as "Suwoon Choe Je-u's religious experiences"(수운(水雲 崔濟愚) 종교체험의 비교종교학적 고찰: ‘체험- 해석틀’의 상호 관계를 중심으로, 2009). His publications include The Religious Experience of Suwoon Choe Je-u and Mysticism (Seoul National University Press) and the co- authored Religion, Now It Is Enlightenment (종교, 이제는 깨닫음이다, Bukseongjae). He also translated Civilization and Its Discontents for Korean readers (Seoul National University Press).

Song Chong Lee is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Seoul National University, specializing in the intersection of religion and society with a focus on church-state relations, the evolving definition of religion, and new religious movements. He is the author of Ham Sok Hon’s Ssial Cosmopolitan Vision (Lexington Books, 2020) and has published in leading academic journals, including “Bringing Back the Old Religiosity: Interfaith Cosmopolitan Civil Religion” (Journal of Church and State, 2024), “The Violence of New Religious Movements and the Entrepreneurial Model: With a Focus on the Shincheonji Church of Jesus in Korea” (The Journal of Religion, 2023), and “Homo-Historicus of Wilhelm Dilthey and Ham Sok Hon”(A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, 2023). He serves on the steering committee of the Korean Religions Unit of the American Academy of Religion, is a board member of the North American Korean Philosophy Association, an editorial board member of Religions, and is currently co-editing the Palgrave Series in Contemporary Korean Studies.

Hyunjoo Jung is Associate Professor in the Department of City Planning at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. As a geographer, Jung’s research revolves around urban studies, gender and migration. Her recent research focuses on multicultural spaces of migrants and gendered urban experiences. Recent publications include; “The impact of educational migration in the transition to a modern city: focusing on Bukchon as the locus of educational migration to Gyeongseong"(Seoul Journal of Korean Studies, 37(1), 2024, with Yang); “Multiplicity and path dependency in the modeling of historical routes: a case study of the Wonju basin in the central region of the Korean peninsula"(Professional Geographer, 76(1), 2024, with Ko and Shim); “Perspectives and practices of feminist urban researchers"(SPACE, 54(11), 2019); “Making homes survival places: the experience and practices in fear of crime of young women living alone in Seoul"(Gender, Place & Culture, 2025, with Jang). She contributed a chapter “Ethical issues arising from the fuzzy boundary between the researcher and the researched: the case of mental mapping” to an edited book by Warr, Deborah et al., Ethics and Visual Methods: Theory, Methodology and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Minah Kim is a Senior Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Institute of Incheon National University, Incheon, Korea. Her publications include A History of Christian Social Movement in Korea, vol. 1-3 (co-author, The National Council of Churches in Korea, 2024), “Religious Governance as Collaboration for the Resolution of Disgust: The Case of Protestantism in South Korea” (Religions, 13(11), 2022), “The Influence of the Protestant Evangelical Movement on the Korean Civil Movement: The Case of the Citizen’s Coalition for Economic Justice (CCEJ)” (Theology and Praxis, 81, 2022), and “The Relationship between Religion and Society in the COVID-19 Era: The Case of Protestantism in South Korea”(Religions, 12(12), 2021). Her recent research interests are the social movements of Korean Religions, the history of Protestantism and democratization in Korea, religion and human rights, and religion and social disasters. In 2024, Minah Kim is teaching "Studies in Contemporary Religious Change" at Seoul National University, and "Understanding Contemporary Sociology and Humans, Society, and Ethics" at Incheon National University.