Director, Academy of Mobility Humanities (2018.06 ~)
Editor-in-Chief, Mobility Humanities (2022.01~)
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Diaspora & Cultural Criticism (2015.01~)
Editorial Board Member, Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature (2017.03~)
Academician, The International Association for Ethical Literary Criticism(IAELC) (2014~)
Dean, Konkuk University Graduate School of Education (2016.09. ~ 2020.08.)
Editor-in-Chief, The Japanese Language Literature Association of Korea (2015.03~)
President, The Japanese Language Literature Association of Korea (2013.03. ~ 2015.02.)
Research Outputs
“The Review of “Koreans in Japan” Novels Through the Lens of Ethical Literary Criticism: Lee Yangji’s Nabi T’aryongand Other Stories,” Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature 8(4), 2024.
“Reading Takeo Arishima’s Literature through ‘Mobility’: An Interpretative Approach in Japanese Literary Education,” Journal of Japanese Studies 102, 2024.
“Protagonist Theory in Japanese Literature Classrooms: Focusing on Takeo Arishima’s A Certain Woman,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 103, 2024.
“Exploring Mobile Lifestyles and Virtual Communities: The Narrative Structure and Emotional Impact of “Train Man”,” Journal of Japanese Culture 101, 2024.
“The Island Literature Museum in Korea,” Kritika Kultura Vol. 43, 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.
“Diversification of Korean Americans and Digital Diaspora: Online Community Activities of Parents with Half Korean Children,” Contemporary Society and Multiculture Vol. 13, No. 1, 2023.
“Zainichi Narratives and Community Ethics Represented in Multicultural Literature PACHINKO,” Journal of Japanese Culture 96, 2023.
“A Mobility Writer’s Place-Focusing on Takeo Arishima,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 95, 2022.
“The Feasibility of Applying Ethical Literary Criticism to Korean Literary Education,” Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature 5(2), 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.
“Transition of Mobility in Zainichi Text: Focusing on Kazuki Kaneshiro’s “The Zombies” Series,” Japanese Language and Literature 89, 2021.
“Exploring Humanistic Layers of Urban Travel Representation, Imagination, and Speculation,” Transfers 9(3), 2019.
“On the Representation of Kerria Japonica in Classic Japanese Literature: Focusing on the Changes in the View of Kerria Japonica,” Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature 2(3), 2018.
“Post-colonial Narratives of Korean-Japanese Literature: Ethical Issues for the Displaced,” UNITAS 91(1), 2018.
“Ethics in Korean Diaspora Literature in Japan: Writing of Inverted Guilt and Confession,” Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture 45(3), 2018.
“Introduction: The Diaspora Thinking and Culture in East Asia,” Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture 45(3), 2018.
“A Narrative of Those on the Move: The Case of Takeo Arishima,” KRITIKA KULTURA 28, 2017.
“Ethics of Father and Son in Ri’s 流域へ (Watershed Above) and Kaneshiro’s GO,” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 17(5), 2015.
“Book Review: Byung-ho CHUNG, DoYoung Song, The Multicultural Space of South Korea,” Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture 42(5), 2015.
“The Meaning of the Research of Diasporic Literature: Focusing on the Ethics of Diasporic Literature of the Korean in Japan,” Diaspora & Cultural Criticism 5(1), 2015.
“Communication Strategy of Diaspora Narrative -Focusing on Lee Hoe-seong’s “Watershed Above”,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 60, 2014.
“Confession as an Ethical Device in the Formation of Modern Japanese Literature,” Foreign Literature Studies 36(1), 2014.
“Community Ethics Anomie and Trauma Treatment: A Review of Haruki Murakami’s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and Years of Pilgrimage,” FOREIGN LITERATURE STUDIES 35(6), 2013.
“A Study on “A Certain Woman” by Takeo Arishima -Focusing on the Motif of Immigration,” The Comparative Study of World Literature 37, 2011.
“A Study on the “Descendants of Cain” by Takeo Arishima -Focusing on the Diaspora as an Auxiliary Narrative,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 51, 2011.
“A Study on Arishima-Takeo: Focusing on Anguish of Narratio,” Korean Japanese of Japanese Language and Literature 55, 2011.
“A study on the “Hero-Narrative” in the Japanese Novel since the late Nineteenth century,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 46, 2010.
Topography of Diaspora, Seoul: LP, 2018.
The Izu Dancer·Senbazuru·Lake, Seoul: Eulyoo Press, 2010.
Asia and Diaspora, Seoul: Jigeumyogi, 2009.
The Contrast of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature, Seoul: Japan Research 21, 2009.
A Study on Modern Cultural Exchange and Relationships in Northeast Asia, China Weihai: Shandong University Press, 2008.
Cultural Representations of East Asia, Seoul: Pagijong Press, 2007.
Novel Theory – and Modern Times, Seoul: Konkuk University Press, 2006.
Walks in the Literary Classics, Paju: Hama Press, 2004.
The Sound of the Mountain, Seoul: Woongjindotcom, 2003.
The Flow of Japanese Literature 2, Seoul: Knoupress, 2000.
The Game of Contemporaneity, Seoul: Koreaone Press, 1997.
The Sound of the Mountain, Seoul: Woongjin Press, 1995.