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Researcher Bio<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n

Ilhong Ko is an archaeologist researching migration and exchange in the Korean Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. She has published research papers on topics such as the trade networks of the East Asian world during the Bronze Age-Iron Age, the history of exchange in the Hwandonghae<\/em> (East Sea Rim) region, North Korean archaeology, and interactions in the peripheries of the Han Empire (a comparative study of the Korean Peninsula and northern Vietnam). Through such research, she is examining the regional networks that formed the Asian world, and exploring how those regional networks were connected to each other, thereby reproducing an \u2018Asian world\u2019 in the past and present.<\/p>\n

Since joining in the HK\u207a Mega-Asia Research Project Group in 2020, she has begun to focus on the movement of people, objects, and ideas throughout the Asian region in order to trace the direct and indirect connections between the Asian regions forming \u2018Mega-Asia\u2019 that existed from the past. In the first stage of the research project (2020-2023), she reviewed the concept of \u2018Asia\u2019, explored the validity of the concept of \u2018Mega-Asia\u2019, participated in developing an algorithm that modeled possible Silk Road routes on the Korean Peninsula, and undertook text analysis and data visualization of texts associated with Asia\u2019s cultural heritage. In the second phase of the research project (2023-2027), she is currently carrying out comparative research between the Korean Peninsula and northern Vietnam through an analysis of Han-style tombs, is participating in the development of a research methodology for \u2018comparative regional studies\u2019, and is exploring if it can be possible to expand the concept of Mega-Asia so that it may act as an ideological basis that can help Asians to jointly respond to the various challenges that the region will experience in the future.<\/p>\n

Key Publications<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n

2025. \u201cThe Earliest Introduction of Iron into the Y\u014fngnam Region \uff0dA Critical Examination of the Evidence and Discourse\uff0d\u201d, International Journal of Korean History 31(1)
\n2025. \u201cNation-building and Archaeology in North Korea After Liberation \u2012 Universal and Particular Features\u201d, Dongyanghak 99
\n2025. \u201cNew Perspectives on Ancient and Historic quarries: Re-thinking the Juklim-ri Quarry in Gochang\u201d, Geonji Inmunhak 42
\n2025. \u201cTemporal and Spatial Changes in Land Use and Spatial Structure in South Korea through Cultural Heritage Data\u201d, Journal of the Korean Geographic Society 60(2)
\n2025. \u201cDigital Restoration of the Heritage Landscape through a GIS-Based Approach: Case Study of the Gochang Dolmen Site in South Korea\u201d, The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences Vol. XLVIII-M-9-2025
\n2024. \u201cMultiplicity and Path Dependency in the Modeling of Historical Routes: A Case Study of the Wonju Basin in the Central Region of the Korean Peninsula\u201d, Professional Geographer<\/em> 76(1)
\n2024. “\u201cAn Observation of Asia\u2019s Sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List through Data Analysis of the Criteria for Selection\u201d,\u00a0Asia\u2019s Heritage Trend: Examining Asia\u2019s Present through its Past<\/em>\u00a0(Routledge)
\n2023.\u00a0\u201cJoseon gogo yeongu<\/em>: Analyzing and Visualizing the Field of Archaeological Research in North Korea from 1986 to 2019\u201d, Korea Journal<\/em> 63(4)
\n2023. \u201cExploring the Historical Foundations of Korea\u2019s Connections with South Asia Using the Framework of \u201cMega-Asia\u201d”, Journal of the Humanities<\/em> 80(3)
\n2023. “Comparative Study of North Korean Archaeology in the Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and Kim Jong Un Eras: A \u2018Distant Reading\u2019 of Joseon gogo yeongu<\/em>“, Journal of Peace and Unification Studies<\/em> 15(1)
\n2023. “Towards a Diversification of Research on Burials: Application of Network Visualization and the Concept of ‘Assemblage'”, Hanguk Sanggosa Hakbo<\/em> 120
\n2022. “Reconsideration of the Role of Ulleung Island in the Prehistoric and Ancient East Sea Rim Interaction Network”, The Journal for the Studies of Korean History<\/em> 89
\n2022. \u201c\u2018Benefit Maximizing Routes\u2019: Development and Evaluation Using the Historical Roads of Korea\u2019s Joseon Dynasty (1392\u20131910)\u201d, Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology<\/em> 5(1)
\n2022. “The Need for Placeness Studies with a Historical Perspective: Attempts to Provide \u2018The Other\u2019 with Historicity”, Journal of the Korean Association of Space And Environment Research<\/em> 32(2)
\n2022. “Network Visualization and the Utilization of Archaeological Data: The Example of Nangnang (Lelang) Tombs”,\u00a0Journal of the Humanities<\/em>,\u00a079(1)
\n2021. “Examining Prehistoric and Ancient Ulleungdo Island in its Geographic and Historic Context: with focus on its role in Trans-East Sea Exchange”, Korean Cultural Studies<\/em> 41
\n2021. “Network Analysis of Foreign Object Circulation in Ancient Korea: Wushu Coins from Yeongnam Burials”, Asia Review, 11(1)
\n2020. “Content Analysis of North Korean Research Journal Data: a New Way of Writing Histories on Balhae Research Undertaken in North Korea”,\u00a0Journal of the Humanities<\/em>\u00a077(4)
\n2020. “Reflecting On the Historical Records of Past Epidemics During the Covid-19 Era \u2013 conversations on illness between history and the present day”, Diversity + Asia<\/em> 15
\n2019. “Migration Studies in the Korean Bronze Age: Current Problems and Alternative Approaches”, Journal of the Korean Bronze Age<\/em> 25
\n2019. “Crafts Production at Trade Ports, Hubs of Civilization Exchange: Re-examining the crafts production workshops of Neukdo, in Sacheon”, Asia Review\u00a0<\/em>8(2)
\n2018. “Examining Practices of Archaeological Research in North Korea \u2013 applying content analysis to Joseon gogo yeongu<\/em>“, Journal of the Hoseo Archaeological Society<\/em>
\n2018. “Towards a New Understanding of Maritime Exchange in Ancient Korea: with Focus on Theoretical Implications”, \u00a0Journal of the Humanities<\/em>, 75(2)<\/p>\n

Other Experience<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n

HK Research Professor, Seoul National University Asia Center (SNUAC) (2020-2024)
\nResearch Fellow, Seoul National University Asia Center (SNUAC) (2017-2020)
\nHK Research Professor, Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University (2008-2017)
\nHead of the Research & Planning Committee, the Korean Archaeological Society (2024-present)
\nEducation Director, Korean Association for Research on Eurasian Civilization (2020-present)
\nEditorial Committee member, Journal of the Korean Bronze Age (2020-present)
\nEditor-in-Chief, Journal of the Jungbu Archaeology Society (2020-2021)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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