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Speaker
CHO Joonhwa
- Affliation
- Asia-Africa Center, Seoul National University Asia Center
- Title
- Research Fellow
Biography
Joonhwa, CHO is a Research Fellow of Asia-Africa Center at Seoul National University Asia Center and a lecturer at the Division of African Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea. He is also the founding member of Asia-Africa Center which was launched in 2022. In between, he has been a research professor at the Department of Administration at Yonsei University (Mirae Campus). He has widely published on why South Korea is interested in Africa and its modalities in DRC, Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia, compared to China, Japan and North Korea. His interests include African politics of election, conflict resolution and Africa’s foreign policy.