Shin Hyoung Cheol received both his MA and PhD in Korean modern poetry from the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Seoul National University. His doctoral research focused on the politics of Korean modernist poetry, with particular emphasis on the works of Yi Sang and Kim Soo-young. As a literary and cultural critic, Shin has actively engaged with contemporary literary and cultural scenes. He has published five sole-authored books, including The Ethics of Ruin (2008). He is currently a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Seoul National University, where he teaches courses in comparative literature.

Hyoung Cheol Shin’s recent research topics include:

⦁ “A Comparative Literary Approach to the Works of Kim Soo-young,” “Methodologies of Ethical Criticism,” “Theorizing Disaster Narratives,” and “The Turn to Postcritique in Literary Studies.”

His recent publications include:

⦁ “The Malady of Death, On the Masculine Ways of Failing in Love: Focused on Marguerite Duras’s ‘la Maladie de la Morte’” (2020)

⦁ “A Dialogue of Poetics Between Kim Soo-young and Baek Nak-cheong: Focusing on Their Understanding of Heidegger” (2023)

⦁ “9.11 and 3.11, or at Ground Zero of Literature: Essays on the Theory of Disaster Literature 1” (2024)

Kyung Hee Youn completed her doctoral coursework in the Program in Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of Seoul National University. She currently teaches at the School of Drama and the School of Visual Arts at the Korea National University of Arts. She has published two essay collections, Wunderkammer and Shadow and Dawn, and has translated several picture books and graphic novels, including Anne Carson’s Nox. While primarily studying modern and contemporary European literature and visual art, she is also active as a literary critic of Korean literature.

Youkyung Son is a professor in the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Seoul National University. She specializes in socialism in literature, feminist postmodernism, and gender studies. Her books on Korean literature include The Structure of Feeling in Proletarian Literature (2012), The Melancholic Socialist (2016), and Osmosis of Words: Geography of Gender in Modern Korean Literature (2021). She is currently working on a monograph about intellectuals during Korea’s liberation period.

Hyeongguk Song is a journalist and film critic. He joined Kyunghyang Shinmun in 2001 and worked in the social affairs, culture, and economics departments. In 2007, he moved to KBS, where he served in the social affairs, economics, culture, and current affairs production departments. At KBS, he reported and directed a total of 12 documentaries. He currently serves as a board member of Oneul-eun, a nonprofit foundation that supports youth cultural and artistic activities. He is also a voting member of the Golden Globe Awards. In his research, he focuses on the desires and (un)consciousness of citizens as members of the nation-state and how these interact with film and television narratives.

Hyeongguk Song’s major works include:

⦁ “New Year Special Two-Part Series: Algorithmic Humanity” (Winner of the 2023 50th Korea Broadcasting Awards Grand Prize and the Korea Communications Standards Commission Good Program Award)

⦁ “AI and the Human Paycheck” (2021 Minister of Science and ICT Commendation

⦁ “An Unequal Society and the 586 Generation” (2021 KBS Excellent Program Award)

⦁ The Hate Pandemic (2022 Korea Broadcasting Journalists Association Reporter of the Month Award)

⦁ “The Age of Disaster: The Revenge of Affluence” (2021 KBS News Division Journalism Award)

⦁ “The investigative series Forgotten Independence Patriots” (2004 Kyunghyang Grand Prize)

⦁ “The film criticism essay The Gravity of Time: What Gravity’s 3D Speaks To” (Winner of the 2013 Cine21 Film Criticism Award for Best Review)