Young Hoon Song is an Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science and Director of the Kangwon Institute for Unification Studies at Kangwon National University. He served as a dean of the University Office of Planning in 2020-2021. He is an advisory committee member of the Korean Han Foundation and Refugee Council of the Ministry of Justice. Before joining the university in 2015, he worked for the Korea Institute for National Unification and the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 2011. His research interests lie in international relations theory, conflict and forced migration, international human rights and humanitarianism, and inter-Korean relations. His recent publications include “Living on the Border? Human Rights andion Process in the Forced Migration of North Korean Defectors” and “Politics of Number: A Comparison of Refugee Recognitional Rages.”