2018 Scholars

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Justine Guichard

July 16, 2018 – July 31, 2019

guichard@gwu.edu

Dr. Justine Guichard specializes in the study of contemporary Korean law, politics, and society. Her first book, Regime Transition and the Judicial Politics of Enmity: Democratic Inclusion and Exclusion in South Korean Constitutional Justice, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. She is currently working on a monograph about a crime, the killing of a university student from South Korea in 1958 Philadelphia.

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Angela Kim

January 8, 2018- June 30, 2018

Angela Kim is a current Ph.D. in Law candidate at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, expected to graduate in August 2020. She received her Master of Laws from the George Washington University Law School in 2015 with a specialization in International and Comparative Law, and her Bachelor of Law from Handong Global University in 2014. She is currently conducting research for her thesis, titled “The Law of State Succession in the Case of Unified Korea: The Legal Effects on Treaties and the Rights of Third States,” with her research interests lying in legal perspectives on Korean studies, and especially those dealing with Korean unification.

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Eunkyung Kim

July 5, 2018 – November 10, 2018

Eunkyung Kim is a research professor of Research Institute of Asian Women at Sookmyung Women’s University and an administrative director of the Korean Association of Women’s History. Her research focuses on issues of gender, sexuality, family, and cultural history of cinema in South Korea. She is the author of Cultural History of Korean Students: From Liberation to the 1960 April Revolution (Seohaemungip, 2018).

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Seeui Kim

September 1, 2018 – August 31, 2019

coach43@gwu.edu

Mr. Seeui Kim received his Master of Science degree in Business Administration from Seoul National University in 2010 and Bachelor’s in Political Science in 2003. Mr. Kim is currently the CEO of Hover Lab, a think tank based in Seoul, Korea. He has previously served as the Senior Reporter for Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) in Seoul, Korea from 2004 until 2018, where he also has founded and served as the MBC Union Chairman (2013-2017). His research is on “How Left-wing Biased Korean Press Carries Over to Anti-American and Pro-Chinese Sentiments.”

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Sungrim Park

March 1, 2018- August 19, 2019

weallhappy@gwu.edu

Ms. Sungrim Park received her Bachelor’s in English Literature from Ewha Women’s University in 1992, and currently works as the Director of the Economic and Social Analysis Division of the Intelligence and Analysis Bureau (Ministry of Unification) in South Korea as an analyst of the North Korean economic and social state. Ms. Park will be conducting research on measures to establish humanitarian assistance to North Korea, evaluating the principle of North Korean humanitarian assistance, as well as establishing the division of roles among participants in humanitarian assistance to North Korea.