Intellectual history of Modern China, East Asian Conceptual History, Korean Philosophy
Education Background
1998 The University of Tokyo, Ph. D. Chinese Philosophy
1989 Seoul National University, Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy
Academic Work Experience
2012- Professor, College of Liberal Studies, Seoul National University
2001-2012 Professor, College of Humanities, Hallym University
2007-2008 Visiting Scholar, University of Washington
2002-2007 Supervisor, Classical Chinese Studies, The Korea Foundation
for Advanced Studies
1997-2001 Research Associate, Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo
1999-2000 Lecturer, Faculty of Letters、Saitama University
Non-Academic Work Experience
2026-2027 President-Elect of Korean Philosophical Association
2023-2025 Senator, Seoul National University Senate
2019-2023 Dean, College of Liberal Studies, Seoul National University
2023-2005 President, The Society for Asian Philosophy in Korea
2023- Council Member, International Confucian Association
2018-2020 Chair, Special Committee of the Humanities, National
Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences in
Korea
2011- Advisor, Journal of the History of Ideas in East Asia
Books
1. Yanfu Tianyanlun(Co-authored work), Iwanami, 2025.
2. The Influx of Western Thought and the Response of the Confucian
Scholars (Co-authored work), Blue & Note, 2024.
3. Modern Transitions in Japanese Scholarship (Co-authored work), Seoul
National University Press, 2022.
4. Li (理) : Nature and Ethics: The Origin o of the Concept of Ethics in
Modern Korea (Co-authored work), Acanet, 2020.
5. Studies on the Assimilation of Eastern and Western Philosophical
Thought (editor-in-chief), 10 volumes, Donggwaseo, 2019.
Articles
1. Park Jong-hong: One of Korea’s First-Generation Philosophy Professors,
Aesan Journal 51, 2024.
2. From Han Learning(漢學) to Philosophy: Japanese Confucian Studies in the
20th Century Transitional Period, The Journal of Korean Studies 49,
2018.
3. A Semantic Change of the Confucian Concept of Yunli in Modern Korea
Journal of Philosophical Ideas, 64, 2017.
4. Fusion of Horizon in the Korean Enlightenment Movement: 1880-1900,
ORIENTALISKA STUDIER, No.148, 2016.
5. Translating Darwin’s Metaphors in East Asia, Trans-Humanities, 6-3, 2013.
