Prof. Tae Gyun Park graduated from Seoul National University's Graduate School of Korean History and earned a doctorate in literature. He has been a professor at Seoul National University- Graduate School of International Studies since 2000. He is currently the director of Seoul National University-Graduate School of International Studies. In 2007 and 2017, he taught undergraduates and graduate students in the Department of East Asian Studies at Harvard University "Korean Modern History" and " Korea-U.S. Relations" Allies and Empires: the two myths of Korea-U.S. Relations” Park Tae Gyun’s Issue Korean History” “Korea Reads as an Incident”."