Born in 1964 in Seoul, NAM Kijeong currently serves as a professor at the Institute for Japanese Studies, Seoul National University(SNU). He graduated from SNU and received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. His recent works include The Birth of a Base State: Japan’s Korean War (SNU Press, 2016), “Citizens' Solidarity for the Relationship between Korea and Japan in the New Korean Peninsula System” (The Quarterly Changbi, 2020), “Linking peace with reconciliation: Peace on the Korean Peninsula and the Seoul –Pyongyang–Tokyo triangle” (Asian Education and Development Studies, 2019), “Similar Conditions, Different Paths?: Japan's Normalization of Relations with Korea and Vietnam” (Journal of Contemporary Korean Studies, 2015).