Speaker
CHUNG Jae-Jung
Affliation
University of Seoul
Title
Professor Emeritus
Session

Biography

Born in Dangjin, South Korea on September 1, 1951, Jae-Jung Chung served as a professor at the University of Seoul and the second chairman of the Northeast Asian History Foundation. He has been active as a researcher and instructor of Korean-Japanese history since his retirement. He published a number of papers based on empirical evidence and are putting in a great amount of work for the reconciliation between Korea and Japan. He has made significant efforts to establish a network of historical dialogue between Korea, China, and Japan, and the thesis and textbooks he wrote have serve as good are guidelines for overcoming historical conflicts. His history-related publications include <Japanese Colonial Control over Korean Railroads and Korean People's Response> (1999), <20th Century Korea-Japan Relations> (2014), <Korea-Japan Historical Conflicts and Historical Dialogue> (2014), <Seoul and Kyoto's 10,000 years> (2016), and <Railroad and Modern Seoul> (2018)>. And he won the Chiam Academic Award 2022 and Bora Nabi Prize 2009.