YEO Hyun-Chul is the Vice Dean of the Graduate School of Global Peace and Unification at Kookmin University. His main areas of interest include North Korean society, inter-Korean relations, and unification education. His papers include Support and Tasks for Victims of Kidnapping in Japan and Their Families (2024), Changes in the International Situation and the Internationalization of Unification Discourse (2024), and Improvement of the System for Early Settlement of North Korean Defectors (2024).