CHOI Ho-Keun is a professor of Modern European History and head of the Department of History at Korea University in Seoul. He received his doctoral degree at Bielefeld University in Germany. His publications include Max Weber und der Historismus (Hartmut Spenner, 2000), “Das historische Verstehen bei Simmel,“ Simmel Studies (2000), “Holocaust Education in a Country without Holocaust Experience,” Contemporary Review of Middle East (2016), “History As a Mirror: Korea’s Appropriation of Germany’s Experience in Rectifying the Past,” Transnational Encounters between Germany and Korea (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017), “Commemorative Culture in Korea and Germany,” German-East Asian Encounters and Entanglements (Routledge, 2021). Moreover, he has published comparative studies of nationalism and national commemorative culture around the world.