KOREA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

Education

• - 1984-1988 Bachelor of Arts/1988, History, Department of History, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
  - 1988-1990 Master of Arts/1990, Late Modern Western history, Department of History, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
  - 1995-1999 Ph.D/1999, Late Modern Western History Department of History, University of Bielefeld, Germany

Professional Experience and Awards

1990-1993 Instructor/Full-time Instructor, Department of History, Korea Military Academy
2000–2001 Post-doctor Fellow, College of Liberal Arts, Seoul National University
2002–2005 Research Professor, Institute for Elementary Education, Busan National University of Education
2005–2016 Research Professor, Institute for the Study of History, Korea University

2016- 2018 Associate Professor, Department of History, Korea University

2018- Professor, Department of History, Korea University


2015 Visiting Scholar Fellowship from DAAD, Germany
2014 Excellent Article of the Year, Korea Research Foundation
2011 Lecture Award, Chungang University
2009 Excellent Book of the Year, Korean Ministry of Culture : German Education of History (Daekyo: Seoul)
2008 Excellent Book of the Year, The National Academy of Sciences: Die ungewollte Revolution 1848 by W. J. Mommsen (translation from German)
2007 Excellent Book of the Year : Holocaust. A Black Box of the Contemporary Western History (Purunyeoksa: Seoul)
2007 Granite Lecture Award, Korea University
2005 Excellent Book of the Year, Korean Ministry of Culture: Genocide (Chaeksesang: Seoul)
2002 Lecture Award, Yonsei University
1995 Doctoral Scholarship, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Germany

Books

• <Books>
  
  2023.06 Historical Literacy (Purun-yeoksa)
  2022.12 A Walk to Nobel Prize-winning Works (Sancheoreom) *book chapter
  2022.04 The Era of Disaster and Crisis (Korea University Press) *book chapter
  2022.03 Western Historiography in Asia: Circulation, Critique and Comparison (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg) *book chapter
  2021.09 Hate - Why does the History of Hate repeat itself? (Marronnier Books) *book chapter
  2021.08 A Guide to the major Cities of the World (Seoul Historiography Institute) *book chapter
  2021.01 History - Koselleck's Begriffsgeschichtliches Lexikon (Purun-yeoksa) *translation from German
  2021.01 German-East Asian Encounters and Entanglements: Affinity in Culture and
  Politics since 1945 (New York: Routledge) Ed. by Joanne Miyang Cho *book chapter
  2020.12 Commemorative Culture in the Era of Globalization (Korea Democracy Foundation)
  2019.05 The Future of Commemoration (Korea University Press)
  2017.10 Transnational Encounters between Germany and Korea: Affinity in Culture and Politics in the Long Twentieth Century (New York, Palgrave MacMillan)
  2011.10 European Conception of Dokdo (Northeast Asian History Foundation)
  2011.06 City ist History (Seohae-munjip)
  2009.07 Memory and War (Humanist)
  2009.07 German Education of History (Daekyo)
  2008.12 A Guide of History in 21th Century (Kyongin-munhwasa)
  2007.07 Weltbürgertum und Nationalstaat (Nanam) *translation from German
  2006.12 Die ungewollte Revolution 1848 (Purun-yeoksa) *translation from German
  2006.10 States and Memory (Korea Democracy Foundation) *translation from English
  2006.08 Historial Memorials around the World (Korea Democracy Foundation)
  2006.04 Holocaust. A Black Box of the Contemporary Western History (Purun-yeoksa)
  2005.07 Genocide (Chaeksesang)
  2005.02 Memory of Wars : History and Literature, Vol. 1 (Wolin)
  2002.06 The World War II and the German-Polish Relationship (Korea Educational Development Institute)v 2002.03 Postmodernism and History (Purun-yeoksa)
  2000.08 Max Weber und der Historismus (Waltrop: Hartmut Spenner)
  1992.06 German Conception of History (Bakmungak) *translation from English
  
  
  <Conference Papers>
  
  2022 
  “Some Ideas for the Formation of East Asian Memory Community,” KU International Conference: Search for East Asian Peace Community, Seoul
  2021
  Veränderung der koreanischen Gedenkkultur seit 1945: Erweiterung und Differenzierung der Opferkategorie,” Deutscher Historikertag, München, Germany
  2020 
  “The Overlap and Divergence of Historical Writing and Literature: An Analysis of the Narrative within Ranke’s Deutsche Geschichte im Zeitalter der Reformation,” The Korean Society of History of Historiography, Seoul
  “History-based peace education starting from Jeju”, the 10th Jeju April 3rd Peace Forum, Jeju
  2019
  “National Flag as a lieu de mémoire?,” Conference of the Memory Studies Association, Madrid, Spain
  2018
  “Phantom Anti-semitism in South Korea: Critical Comments on the ADL Global 100 Survey,” the 42th Annual German Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, USA 
  2017
  - “Commemorative Culture in Korea and Germany: A Comparison Focused on State Commemoration of Fallen Soldiers and Civilian Victims,” the 41st Annual German Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, USA
  - “The development and Structure of German History Education”, National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, Seoul
  2016
  - “The Necessity and Direction of Haegong Shin Ik-hui Memorial Education Center”, National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, Seoul
  2015
  - “Strategies for Holocaust Education in a Country without Holocaust,” International Conference for Holocaust Education, organized by UNESCO and U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D. C., USA
  - “From Criminal State to Normal State : Enlightenment Project of Federal Republic of Germany after 1945”, Busan
  2014
  - “Making a Community of Belief through Historical Education? : State Power and the politics of History in Germany during the Wilhelminian Era”, National Conference of Korean Historians, Seoul
  2013
  - “Erinnerungskultur im Wandel in Südkorea nach 1945,” Bürgergesellschaft und Erinnerungslandschaft: Konferenz des Internationalen Graduiertenkollegs Halle-Tokyo Universität, Halle, Germany
  - “Vergangenheitsthematisierung in Deutschland und Japan aus koreanischer Sicht,” Bürgergesellschaft und Erinnerungslandschaft: Konferenz des Internationalen Graduiertenkollegs Halle-Tokyo Universität, Halle, Germany
  - “Collective Memory, Museum and Peace Education - Germany and Japan”, National History Museum, Seoul
  2012 
  - “Holocaust Education in South Korea,” Learning from the Past: Global Perspectives on Holocaust Education, Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria
  - “Memories of Sexual Violence during the World War II and the Younger Generations of Japan”, Seoul
  2011
  - “A Conceptual Sketch of Peace Museum for the Children”, Youngwol-Yonsei Forum, Youngwol
  - “Planning and Management of Commemoration Activity, Korean Ministry of Culture, Gwangju
  2010
  - “Enlightenment and Historicism”, Reviewing the Historicism, Korean Society of the History of Historiography, Seoul
  - “Struggle for Evidences - Historiography of the Holocaust”, Tradition as Evidence, Masan
  2009
  - “The German Peasant War in the Mirror of the Historical Paintings”, International Conference of Donghak Peasant Revolution, Seoul
  2008
  - “Forced Deportation of European Jews and Trauma of Auschwitz,” Narratives of Migration and Diaspora in the Age of Global Capitalism, Suwon
  - “A Critical Consideration of the German National Memorials in 19th Century”, National Conference of Korean Historians, Seoul
  2007
  - “Wehrmacht's Massacre against the European Jews and the Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Germany”, Nogun-ri International Conference, Seoul
  2006
  - “Korean Reception of German Theory of History after 1945”, Reception of the German History in Northeast Asia, Daegu
  2005
  - “Holocaust and Genocide”, Korean Society of German History, Gwangju
  - “War and Genocide”, Masan
  2004
  - “Changes of Holocaust Memory in USA”, Korean Society of American History
  2003
  - “Holocaust Memory and History Making in Israel”, National Conference of Korean Historians, Seoul
  - “Historicism and New Historicism”, Korean Society of the History of Historiography, Seoul
  2001
  - “Postmodernism and History : a Case of Germany”, National Conference of Korean Historians
  2000
  - “Das historische Verstehen bei Georg Simmel,” Simmel Society, Bielefeld, Germany

Journal Articles

• 2023.06 Mutual aid and resistance activities of Jewish women under Nazi Germany - focused on Ravensbrück concentration camp, HANGUK-SAHAKSA-HAKBO(The Korean Journal of History of Historiography)
  2022.12 World War I and the Worship of the Fallen in Germany: Focused on the Military Cemetery in the Fanders, SEOYANG-SARON(Journal of Western History)
  2021.12 Reception of Ranke’s History in Korea: From the Japanese Colonial Period to the Present, HANGUK-SAHAKSA-HAKBO(The Korean Journal of History of Historiography) 
  2021.03 The Overlap and Divergence of Historical Writing and Literature: An Analysis of the Narrative within Ranke’s Deutsche Geschichte im Zeitalter der Reformation, SEOYANG-SARON(Journal of Western History)
  2019.06 Leopold von Ranke’s Historical Narrative, YEOKSA-HAKBO(The Korean Historical Review)
  2018.12 1919 – a Watershed in the Development of Western Historiography?, HANGUK-SAHAKSA-HAKBO(The Korean Journal of History of Historiography)
  2018.04 Between the Ideal Type and the Real Type : Otto Hintze and the Methodological Renewal of German Modern Historiography, YEOKSA-WA-DAMRON(History and Discourse)
  2017.12 Development of the Holocaust-Rescuers’ Study and Its Educational Implications, HANGUK-SAHAKSA-HAKBO(The Korean Journal of History of Historiography)
  2017.11 Germany’s Commemoration of the Fallen Soldiers after World War Ⅱ, DOKIL-YEONGU(German Studies)
  2017.07 Johann Christoph Gatterer and Development of the German Enlightenment Historiography, YEOKSA-WA-DAMRON(History and Discourse)
  2016.09 Holocaust Education in a Country without Holocaust Experience: Facing Burdensome Past with Rescuer Stories in South Korea, CONTEMPORARY REVIEW OF MIDDLE EAST
  2016.04 Vom Etatistischen zum Republikanischen Totenkult. Südkoreanische Erinnerungskultur seit 1945, FORMWANDEL DER BÜERGERGESELLSCHAFT
  2016.03 Narrative Structure of the Roman History by T. Mommsen, SEOYANG-SARON(Journal of Western History)
  2015.03 The Birth of Modern Western History and B. G. Niebuhr, YEOKSA-HAKBO(The Korean Historical Review)
  2015.03 Making a Community of Belief through Historical Education? : State Power and the politics of History in Germany during the Wilhelminian Era, SEOYANG-SARON(Journal of Western History)
  2014.03 A. L. Schlözer and Late German Enlightenment Historiography, SEOYANG-SARON(Journal of Western History)
  2013.12 Vergangenheitsbewältigung in German Historiography: a Case of T. Schieder, SEOYANG-SARON(Journal of Western History)
  2013.04 History Education at Commemoration Institutions in Germany, YEOKSA-WA-DAMRON(History and Discourse)
  2013.03 Narrative and History Education, YEOKSA-GYOYUK(History Education)
  2012.12 Holocaust Education and the Memory of Sexual Slavery of Japanese Army, JISIK-YUNGHAP(Convergence of Knowledge)
  2011.12 Efficiency and Strategies of Education of Burdensome History: Germany, Israel, and U.S. America, YEOKSA-GYOYUK(History Education)
  2011.10 Struggle for Evidence: Historiography of the Holocaust, GARA-MUNHWA(Gara Culture)
  2011.06 Enlightenment and Historicism, HANGUK-SAHAKSA-HAKBOThe Korean Journal of History of Historiography)
  2010.11 Boom of Establishing National Memorials in the Wilhelminian Germany and Nationalism 1871-1914, DAEGU-SAHAK(Daegu Journal of History)
  2009.12 Spatial Representation of the Holocaust: Germany, Israel, and U.S. America, DOKIL-YEONGU(German Studies)
  2007.12 Korean Reception of German Theory of History after 1945, DOKIL-YEONGU(German Studies)
  2007.08 Wehrmacht's Massacre against the European Jews and the Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Germany, GEONICE-YEONGU(Genocide Studies)
  2006.12 The Crisis of Spirit at the End of the 19th Century and Dilthey's Critic of the Reason of History, HANGUK-SAHAKSA-HAKBO(The Korean Journal of History of Historiography)
  2006.08 Asymmetrical Memories of the War?: A Comparative Study of German and Japanese Memories of the World War II, YEOKSA-BIPYEONG(Review of History)
  2005.09 War and Genocide, YEOKSA-WA-GYEONGGYE(History and Border)
  2005.06 Discourses of the Cultural History at the End of the 19th Century and Max Weber's Historical Science of Culture, YEOKSA-HAKBO(The Korean Historical Review)
  2005.03 History Education and the Holocaust in Israel, YEOKSA-GYOYUK-RONJIP(Journal of History Education)
  2005.03 Facing with the Burdensome Past: German Memories of the Holocaust, SEOYANG-SARON(Journal of Western History)
  2005.03 W. v. Humboldt's Ideenlehre and Theory of Understanding, YEOKSA-GYOYUK(History Education)
  2004.12 What is the Genocide?, DOKIL-YEONGU(German Studies)
  2004.12 Raul Hilberg. A Representative Historian of the Holocaust, YEOKSA-WA-MUNHWA(History and Culture)
  2004.08 Holocaust Memory and History Making in Israel, YEOKSA-BIPYEONG(Review of History)
  2004.05 Changes of Holocaust Memory in USA, MIGUKSA-YEONGU(Korean Review of American History)
  2003.09 Historicism and New Historicism, HANGUK-SAHAKSA-HAKBO(The Korean Journal of History of Historiography)
  2003.03 Collective Memory and History, YEOKSA-GYOYUK(History Education)
  2002.12 The First World War and Historians: a Comparative Study of Wartime Activities of the German and American Historians, YEOKSA-HAKBO(The Korean Historical Review)
  2001.10 The First World War and Friedrich Meinecke, DOKIL-YEONGU(German Studies)
  2001.09 Challenge of New Cultural History and Response of the Social History: Recent Discourses in Germany, HANGUK-SAHAKSA-HAKBO(The Korean Journal of History of Historiography)
  2001.03 Max Weber and German Tradition of Historical Science, SEOYANG-SARON(Journal of Western History)
  2000.08 Das Historische Verstehen bei Simmel: ein Vergleich mit Droysen, Dilthey und Weber, SIMMEL STUDIES
  2000.06 Max Weber and Gustav von Schmoller: Weber's Critic and Reception of the German Historical School of the National Economy, SACHONG(Historical Journal)
  1990.12 A Study of J. G. Droysen's Theory of Understanding, SACHONG(Historical Journal)