HK Research Professor

Myungsim Yang

Personal Profile

  • Editorial Assistant, Mobility Humanities. (2022.01. ~ )
  • Editorial Board Member, The Japanese Language and Literature Society of Korea. (2024.03. ~ 2026.02)
  • Secretary of Organization, The Japanese Language Literature Association of Korea. (2021.03. ~ 2023.02 )
  • Research Professor, Cultural Sciences Research Center, Jeonju Univ. (2017.07. ~ 2018.06.)
  • Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Cultural Sciences Research Center, Jeonju Univ. (2014.07. ~ 2015.06.)
  • Associate Researcher, The Center for Asia & Diaspora, Konkuk Univ. (2012.09. ~ 2014.06.)
  • HK Research Professor, The Center for Asia & Diaspora, Konkuk Univ. (2011.09. ~ 2012.08.)
  • Foreign Researcher, Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe Univ. (2009.11. ~ 2010.09)

Research Outputs

  • “Narrative Representation of Infrastructure: Focusing on Keiichiro Hirano’s A Man(2018)”,” Journal of Japanese Culture 107, 2025.
  • “The Mystery Novels and Narrative Strategies of Zainichi Writer Katsuhiro Go: Focusing on “Lessons of Morality”and “The Bomb”,” Journal of Japanese Culture 104, 2025.
  • “Exploring Mobile Lifestyles and Virtual Communities: The Narrative Structure and Emotional Impact of “Train Man”,” Journal of Japanese Culture 101, 2024.
  • “Zainichi, Mobility, and Jeju Island: On the Representation of Island in the Novels of Kim Sokpom and Lee Yangji,” Kritika Kultura Vol. 43, 2024.
  • “Zainichi Narratives and Community Ethics Represented in Multicultural Literature PACHINKO,” Journal of Japanese Culture, 96, 2023.
  • “The Ethical Structure of the Taxi-Based Narrative: Focusing on Taxi Crazy Rhapsody,” Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, Vol.6, No.4, 2022.
  • “Moving Zainich Culture and Female Zainichi’s Right: Focusing on Row a boat on land of a Literary Magazine,” Journal of Dong-ak Language and Literature 64, 2022.
  • “Transformation of the Concept of Mobility in Zainichi Koreans’ Texts: focused on Kazuki Kaneshiro’s The Zombies Series,” The Japanese Language and Literature Association of Daehan 89, 2021.
  • “Diasporic Narrative and Representation of “Enforced Mobility” -Focused on “Ryuiki (流域)” by Hoe-sung Lee-​,” Japanese Language and Culture 50, 2020​.
  • “Zainichi’s experience of ‘Motherland’ and Production of Seoul​,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 83, 2019​.
  • “Just after the Liberation from Japanese Imperialism, Japanese Mobility System and the Formation of “Korean Residents in Japan” -Focusing on Lee Hoe-seong’s Hyakunen-no Tabibitodachi-,” Japanese Language and Literature​ 84, 2019​.
  • “Japanese-named Korean Writer’s Diasporic Narrative and Its Representation of Mobility: Focusing on Huyunokatamini(冬のかたみに) by Tachihara Seishu,” Korean Japanese of Japanese Language and Literature 79, 2018.​
  • “Diaspora and Restoration of Self-ethics: Focused on Lee Hoe-sung, Zainichi Writer,” International Journal of Diaspora &Cultural Criticism 8(2), 2018.
  • “A Study on the Narratives of Korean-Japanese Writers as a Double Minority,” Journal of Japanese Culture 77, 2018.
  • “A Study on the Magazine, Hormon Culture(1990~2000): Reinterpretation of “Zainichi” Culture,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature​ 75, 2017.
  • “Korean Residents in Japan and the Place of Ikaino -Focusing on the Magazines Published by Korean Residents in Japan,” Journal of Dong-ak Language and Literature​ 67, 2016.
  • “The Reinterpretation of the Genealogy of the Korean Residents Literature in Japan: Focused on the Minto,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 68, 2016.
  • “An Analysis of Multicultural Literature through Homi K. Bhabha’s Hybridity and Cultural Translation Theories,” MONTHLY REVIEW OF PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE​ 42(5), 2015.
  • “A study on Korean Japanese Literary Magazine “Minto” -Bibliographic Review of Lee Hoesung,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature​ 62, 2014.
  • “Lee hoi-sung’s creative imagination and turning point of construction: focused on ryuuiki,” Journal of Japanese Culture 56, 2013.
  • “Postwar Japan reflected upon Hoe-Sung Lee’s Adolescent Novel,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature​ 52, 2012.
  • Mobility, Ethos, Common Culture, Seoul: LP, 2023.
  • Mobility and Text Studies, Seoul: LP, 2021
  • Mobility Technology and the Aesthetics of Text, Seoul: LP, 2020.
  • Cultural Geography of Self-narratives of Zainichi, Seoul: Youkrack, 2018.
  • Criticism of multiculturalism in Korea, Seoul: LP, 2016.
  • Literature, Ethnicity, Nation, between Zainichi literature and Empire, Seoul: Jigeumyogi, 2012.

Yeonhee Woo

Personal Profile

  • Managing EditorInternational Journal of Diaspora and Cultural Criticism (2021.02. ~ )
  • Permanet Secretary, The Japanese Language Literature Association of Korea (2021.03~)

Research Outputs

  • “The Factory as Social Infrastructure -Focusing on Michiko Ishimure’s Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow-,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 107, 2025.
  • “Exploring Mobile Lifestyles and Virtual Communities: The Narrative Structure and Emotional Impact of “Train Man,” Journal of Japanese Culture 101, 2024.
  • “‘Post-war’ Pollution Incidents of Japan and Reproduction of Pollution Incidents in Documentary Literatures: Focused on the Michiko Ishimure’ Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow,” Journal of Japanology 62, 2024.
  • “A Study on Shohei Ooka’s Portrait of Clouds from the Perspective of ‘Post-war’ Japanese Television FrequencyChannel”, The Journal of Humanities and Social science 14(1), 2023.
  • “Meisho in Terms of Mobility and Literary Ethics: Meisho along Tokaido Gojusan-tsugi,” Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, Vol.6 No.3, September, 2022.
  • “‘Suburb’ as a Symbolic Space of ‘Postwar’ Japan: Focused on the Technological Development and Suburban Changes,” Journal of Japanology 55, 2021.
  • “Rereading Ooka Shohei’s Fires on the Plain:Focused on the Movement of a Soldier and the Character,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 88, 2021.
  • “A Study on the Mobility and Adaptation of Miss Granny -Focusing on the Japanese Version of Miss Granny-,” Journal of the society of Japanese Language and Literature, Japanology 91, 2020.
  • “Texts on Travel and Mobility: How Corsica, Europe, is Depicted in the Travelogue of Shohei Ooka,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 83, 2019.
  • “The Development of Mobility and Formation of Suburbs in Japan,” International Journal of Diaspora&Cultural Criticism 9(2), 2019.
  • “Mobility and movement of peoples: Focusing on The Traces of Cracks(亀裂の痕跡) by Jeong Seung-bak,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 79, 2018.
  • “A Comparison of the Discourse after the Nuclear Plant Accident and ‘Post-war’ Literature,”​ Journal of Japanese Culture 74, 2017.
  • “Ōoka Shōhei’s cognition of “post-war” in Japan -Centerd on Furyoki, Nobi, Musasinofujin,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 69, 2016.
  • “A Study of Ōoka Shōhei’s Musasinofujin,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 58, 2013.
  • “A study of Ooka Syohei’s Tenchugumi,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 57, 2013.
  • “Shohei Ooka as a ‘Post-war’ Literary Writer through the ‘Blue Wolf Debate’”, Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 54, 2012.
  • Mobility, Ethos, Common Culture , Seoul: LP, 2023.
  • Mobility and Text Studies, Seoul: LP, 2021
  • Mobility Technology and the Aesthetics of Text, Seoul: LP, 2020.
  • Text, Technology, Mobility, Seoul: LP, 2019.
  • The History of Cultural Representing of Korea in Modern Japan, Seoul: Somyong Press, 2011. (Translation)
  • Portrait of the Empress, Seoul: Somyong Press, 2007. (Translation)

Bomi Lim

Personal Profile

  • Managing Editor, International Journal of Diaspora & Cultural Criticism (2022.5.1~)
  • Adjunct Professor, Hongik University (2020.09.01.~2021.08.31)
  • Researcher, Sungshin Womens’s University the Law Research Institute (2014.09.01.~2015.08.31.)

Research Outputs

  • “The Institutional Status and Infrastructural Significance of Japanese Zoos : Focusing on the Legislative History of the Museum Act,” Korea and World Review 7(6), 2025.
  • “A Study on the Criminal Punishability of Avatar-to-Avatar Sexual Assault in Virtual Spaces,” Ilkam Law Review 60, 2025.
  • “A Critical Review of Refugee Policy and the Amendment to the Refugee Act,” Contemporary Society and Multiculture 14(3), 2024.
  • “Sexual Violence and Personality Rights in Virtual Spaces,” International Journal of Diaspora & Cultural Criticism, 14(1), 2024.
  • “Legal and Policy Considerations for Improving Companion Animal Access to Public Transportation,” Journal of Law and Politics Research, 23(3), 2023.
  • “Problems of Mobility Rights for Persons with Disabilities on the Basis of the Definition of (Persons with) Disabilities under the Current Law,” International Journal of Diaspora & Cultural Criticism, 12(2), 2022.
  • “Defect and remedy in the detention in court,” Law Review(Institute of Law studies Pusan National University 61(2), 2020.
  • “Criminal Lay Judge Trial and Appellate System in Japan ,” Korean Journal of Criminology 31(1), 2019.
  • “Transition of appeal system in Criminal Procedure Code and implications,” Law Review(Institute of Law studies Pusan National University) 59(1), 2018.​
  • “The Comparative Law Study Concerning Appellate Review of Civil Participatory Criminal Trial,” Korean Journal of Comparative Criminal Law 19(3), 2017.
  • “The Concept and Role of Victims’ supporter in Sexual Violence,” Sungshin Law Journal 15, 2015.
  • “Review on Eligible Cases and Requisites for Commencement of Civil Participation in Criminal Trial – Focused on comparative analysis of Revised Bills by a Committee Citizens` Participation with by the Department of Justice,” Hanyang Law Review 32(3), 2015.
  • “A Critical Review on the So-called “Continuing Jeopardy” -Focused on Analysis of U.S. Cases-,” Korean Journal of Comparative Criminal Law 16(1), 2014.
  • “Civil Participatory Trial System and Appeal,” Korean Journal of Criminology 24(3), 2012.

  • Mobility, Ethos, Common Culture, Seoul: LP, 2023.

Miae Lee

Personal Profile

  • HK Research Professor, Institute of Japanese Studies, Hallym University (2023.03~2024.10)
  • Presidential Commendation, World Korean Day (2018)
  • Visiting Researcher Fellow, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (University of Tokyo Program, 2015.04–2016.03)
  • Visiting Research, Centre for Asia Pacific, Osaka University of Economics and Law (2012.04. ~ 2014.03.)
  • Curator, The History Museum of J-Koreans (Tokyo, 2009.04~2020.04)

Research Outputs

  • “Historical Development of Japanese Museums : From Imperial Legacy to Contemporary Cultural Infrastructure,” The Korea Journal of Japanese Studies 62, 2025.
  • “Memories of Air Raids in the Region and Their Representation in Museums : Focusing on Hiratsuka City Museum,” Journal of Japanese History 65, 2024.
  • “Conflicting Representations of Emperor Showa in Museums,” The Hallym Journal of Japanese Studies 45, 2024.
  • “War Memories and museums in Nagoya, Japan,” Comparative Japanese Studies 59, 2023.
  • “How to remember the war in Okinawa – Centering on Museums -,” Cross-cultural studies 70, 2023.
  • “A Study on Museums and Historical Revisionism : Focusing on “War Memory” at Japan’s the national and public Peace Museums,” Japanese Cultural Studies 88, 2023.

Ilman Choe

Research Outputs

“Being affected (Affektion) and the Exterior of Consciousness: Reflections on Husserl’s Transcendental Idealism”, Philosophy 166, 2026.

“The mode of attribution of “in each case” (je) and Dasein’s authenticity: A study on the mode in which Dasein’s being belongs to Dasein in Heidegger’s Being and Time, Researches in Contemporary European Philosophy 81, 2026.

“Human as a Spokesman for the Non-Human: Human Responsibility in the Dingpolitik and the Planetary Politics”, Philosophical Studies 150, 2025.

“Subject as “the One beyond Being” : Levinas’ thoughts on the embodied subjectivity,” Phenomenology and Contemporary Philosophy 104, 2025.

“Dangers and Potentialities of Highly Mobile World: An Ethical Evaluation”, Kritike Vol. 14 No. 3, 2021.

“The Dynamic Concept of Intentionality in Early Husserl”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Studies 64, 2015.

“Noema and Object”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Studies 36, 2008.


  • Hubert Dreyfus, Seoul: Communication Books, 2025.
  • Louis A. Sass, The Paradoxes of Delusion, Seoul: Philosopik, 2025. (Translator)
  • Michael Friedman, Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger, Seoul: Philosopik, 2022. (Translator)
  • Thomas Nail, Being and Movement, Seoul: LPbooks, 2021. (Translator)
  • David Seamon, Life Takes Place, Seoul: LPbooks, 2020. (Translator)
  • Anita Perkins, Travel Texts and Moving Cultures, Seoul: LPbooks, 2020. (Translator)
  • Peter Adey, Mobility, Seoul: LPbooks, 2019. (Translator)
  • Hubert Dreyfus, On Internet, Seoul: Philosophik, 2015. (Translator)

Hongsuk Yoon

Personal Profile

  • SMARTlab, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland / Senior Researcher (2017-2024)
  • School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland / Graduate Research Assistant (2017-2020)
  • Social Computing Lab, Department of Interaction Science, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) / Research Assistant (BK21+) (2013-2015)

Research Outputs

  • “Embodying Empathy: Inclusive Virtual Reality for Extreme User Experience”, 2024, University College Dublin, Doctoral Dissertation.
  • “Smart order app design: Effects of interactivity on credibility”, Proceedings of the Korea HCI Conference, 1000-1003, 2024.
  • “Motivation to run: Effects of route recommendation type and message framing”, Proceedings of the Korea HCI Conference, 1021-1024, 2024.
  • “A journey to desperately seeking for playing a game: What if you are fully aware of your surroundings, however, you cannot interact with anything?”, CHI Stories, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019), 2019.
  • “Information tailoring and framing in wearable health communication”, Information Processing & Management, 53(2), 2017.
  • “Health information tailoring and data privacy in a smartwatch as a preventive health tool: Qualitative study of users’ perceptions and attitudes”, Proceedings of the HCI International conference, 537-548, 2015.
  • “Exploring strategy of health contents for smart media: Utilizing information and data“, Journal of Digital Contents Society, 16(1), 85-96, 2015.
  • “Wearable health information: Effects of comparative feedback and presentation mode“, In Proceedings of the 33rd annual ACM conference extended abstracts on human factors in computing systems, 2073-2078, 2015.
  • “Personalize or customize? Effects of information tailoring in mobile health communication“, In 7th International Conference on Advances in Human-Oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services, 2014.
  • “A comparative case study of regulatory approaches in the US and Korea”, In 25th European Regional Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, 2014.
  • “Governing network neutrality: Public perception and policy capacity”, International Conference on e-Case & E-Tech, 2014.

Johaeng Rho

Personal profile

  • Saint Louis University / Thesis and Dissertation Writing Consultant (2024-2025)
  • Saint Louis University / Instructor (2021-2024)
  • Saint Louis University / Compass Lab Digital Humanities Consultant (2021-2023)
  • Saint Louis University/ Writing Consultant (2018-2021, 2022-2024)
  • Saint Louis University / Research Assistant (2018-2019)

Research Outputs

  • “Rehearsing ‘The People’ in Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus: From Brechtian Distance to Participatory Mediation.” English 21, vol. 38, no. 4, 2025.
  • “Staging Disability: Shakespeare’s Richard III across Stage, Screen, and Digital Afterlives.” The New Korean Journal of English Language and Literature, vol. 67, no. 4, 2025.
  • “Affective Theater and Early Modern Governmentality in the Time of Shakespeare.” 2025, Saint Louis University, Doctoral Dissertation.