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Personal Profile

• 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 Greek Lessons by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Han Kang: Examined Through the Lens of Ethical Literary Criticism,” Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature 9(4), 2025.
• “The Review of “Koreans in Japan” Novels Through the Lens of Ethical Literary Criticism: Lee Yangji’s Nabi T’aryong and 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.