● Introduction to Political Science
● Korean Politics
● Theories of Democracy
● History of Korean Communist Movements
● Contemporary Political Theory
● Peace and Unification Studies

● Ph.D., Political Science, Korea University
● M.A., Political Science, Korea University
● B.A., Political Science and Economics, Korea University

● Research Professor, Department of Political Science and Diplomacy, Korea University
● Research Scholar, California State University, Sacramento

2024. Adhering to a Policy: The Moon Jae-in Government’s Housing Policy in South Korea. Asia-Pacific Social Science Review.
Legitimation and Perversity: A Comparison of the Politics of Minimum Wage Reforms in Japan and South Korea (co-authored with Ji-Whan Yun). Asian Studies Review.
Economic Inequality and Deepening Ideological Polarization in South Korea after 2010. Asian Politics & Policy.
Partisanship, Regulation, and Volatility of the Housing Market in South Korea. World Affairs.
Efficacy of the Elementary, Middle, and High School Student’s Persuasive Speech. International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education.
Energy Democratization Policy without Democratization of Policy Governance in South Korea: A Participatory Democracy Perspective. Politics & Policy.
South Korea’s Trade Dispute with Japan, Social Cleavages, and the Anti-Japanese Movement in 2019. Taiwanese Political Science Review.
Transformations of East Asian Studies and Reconsideration of Intellectual Lineage: Types and Trajectories of Interdisciplinary Debates (co-authored with Du-Jin Kim). International Political Studies.
Discourses on the Natural Environment in North Korea: Changing Regime Dynamics in the 1990s (co-authored with Sunhye Heo). Asian Studies Review.
The Revival of 'Big Government' Discourse in South Korea. Journal of Asian & African Studies.
When Does a Newborn Democracy Fail? International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies.
Implications of Governance Theory for Korean Peninsula Unification Governance (co-authored with Kyung-Yeon Moon, Seok-Woo Kim). International Relations Studies.
The Paradox of Administrative Decentralization Reform in Young Asian Democracies: South Korea and Indonesia. World Affairs.
Conditions for Enhancing the Substantive Representation of the Korean National Assembly (co-authored with Young-Hwan Park, Ha-Yoon Jeong, Eun-Jung Lee, Joo-Hyun Kang, Jae-Mook Lee). Journal of 21st Century Political Science.
Government Reorganization in the Light of Quality of Democracy. Asian Politics and Policy.
Overlapping Political Conflicts and Legislative Gridlock. Japanese Journal of Political Science.
Neoliberal Developmentalism in South Korea. Asia Pacific Viewpoint.
Managing Policy Dilemmas in South Korea. Asian Studies Review.
The Political Economy of Reforming Financial Supervision in South Korea. Journal of Asian & African Studies.
The Role of the State as an Inter-scalar Mediator in Globalizing Liquid Crystal Display Industry Development in South Korea (co-authored with Y. Lee). Review of International Political Economy.
Changing Aspects of Government-Society Relations in South Korea: Evidence from the Evolution of Environmental Policy Governance. Contemporary Politics.
The Political Economy of Policy Gridlock in South Korea. Politics and Policy.
South Korea’s Corporate Restructuring after the 1997 and 2008 Economic Crises: Different Patterns and Lessons for Policy. Asian Politics and Policy.
Corporate Social Responsibility Activities of Korean Companies in India. International Area Studies.
Pursuing Democratic Governance in South Korea’s North Korea Policy. International Political Science Review.
Korean Foreign Exchange Crisis and Financial Policy from the Perspective of ‘Policy Governance’. Korean Political Science Review.
Pursuing Democratic Governance in the Korean Financial Supervision System. Korean Policy Science Review.
Political Territoriality of Indian Special Economic Zones. International Area Studies.
Ideological Dilemma of North Korea’s Economic Opening. Korean Political Science Review.
Political Economy of Industrial Cluster Formation and Development: Comparative Study of Korea and the USA. Journal of 21st Century Political Science.
Growth of Taiwan’s Knowledge Economy and Implications for Restructuring the Developmental State. Journal of 21st Century Political Science.
Role of the State in the Formation and Operation of Industrial Clusters (co-authored with Yong-Sook Lee). Korean Policy Science Review.
Formation of the Paju LCD Industrial Cluster (co-authored with Yong-Sook Lee). Space and Society.

Book Chapters
2015. Political Institutions and Economic Growth, Southeast Asia (co-authored with Jae-Hyuk Shin). Seoul: Korea Institute for International Economic Policy.
CSR Activities of Korean Companies in India from the Perspective of Democratic Governance, India & Southeast Asia. Seoul: Korea Institute for International Economic Policy.
India’s Special Economic Zone Strategy in the Era of Neoliberal Globalization, India. Seoul: Korea Institute for International Economic Policy.