Biography
As a professor at Halla University (Wonju), he continues his research and lectures mainly on the unification of the Korean Peninsula and North Korean issues. He worked at the Ministry of Unification and the Prime Minister's Office for about 30 years until 2020 and served as a director and director general in such fields as North Korea's information analysis, inter-Korean exchange and cooperation, and unification education.
He earned bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees from Seoul National University, and studied as a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and a visiting fellow at CSIS in Washington, DC. He published a book, Tradition-Key to Understanding North Korean Society, which is a revision of his doctoral dissertation. Recently, he published a paper on North Korea's nuclear issue and inter-Korean relations, "Changes in the structure of North Korea's nuclear negotiations and progress in inter-Korean relations" (2021, Hanbaek Unification Economic Research No. 2).
He earned bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees from Seoul National University, and studied as a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and a visiting fellow at CSIS in Washington, DC. He published a book, Tradition-Key to Understanding North Korean Society, which is a revision of his doctoral dissertation. Recently, he published a paper on North Korea's nuclear issue and inter-Korean relations, "Changes in the structure of North Korea's nuclear negotiations and progress in inter-Korean relations" (2021, Hanbaek Unification Economic Research No. 2).
