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

Research focuses on ASEAN community-building, East Asian regionalism, Korea\u2013ASEAN relations, and Malaysian political economy, integrating international relations with area studies. Particular attention has been given to ASEAN norms and institutionalization, neutrality, and the sustainability and transformation of regional cooperation, while examining how Southeast Asia constitutes itself as a region and, at the same time, imagines and reconstructs the broader idea of \u201cAsia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since 2026, participation in the HK\u207a Mega-Asia Research Project has centered on examining inter-regional connectivity within Asia, with a focus on Southeast Asia, as well as the formation and expansion of regional consciousness. This work highlights that Southeast Asia\u2019s imagination of Asia is not unified but asymmetrically structured across cultural, institutional, and strategic layers, and analyzes the politics of connectivity and boundary-making across regions.<\/p>\n

In the second phase of the HK\u207a Mega-Asia Project (2024\u20132027), current research titled\u201cImagining Asia in Southeast Asia: Institutionalized Incompleteness and Layered Regional Configurations\u201d<\/i>(working title) reinterprets ASEAN not as a simple institutional foundation of Southeast Asian identity, but as a structure that constrains and manages how Southeast Asia imagines Asia. By analyzing the coexistence of cultural inclusiveness toward South Asia and institutional\/economic concentration toward East Asia, along with the discursive limits surrounding the Indo-Pacific framework, this research explores how Southeast Asia\u2019s conception of Asia is continuously reconstructed as a multilayered and relational process.<\/p>\n

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

2024. “ASEAN 2023: Diversity and Division”,The Southeast Asian Review 34(1) (in Korean)
\n2023. “ASEAN\u2019s Neutrality in the Transitional International Order: Implications for Peace on the Korean Peninsula”,Journal of Asiatic Studies 66(3) (in Korean)
\n2023. “Malaysia 2022: Anwar\u2019s Rise to Power and Reform Tasks”,The Southeast Asian Review 33(1) (in Korean)
\n2023. “South Korea’s New Southern Policy”, Routhledge. (book chapter)
\n2022. “ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community and Human Security”,East Asian Studies 41(1) (in Korean)
\n2022. “Malaysia 2021: The Fall of the Muhyiddin Government and the Deepening Crisis of the Pakatan Harapan (PH)”,The Southeast Asian Review 32(1) (First author, in Korean)
\n2022.”The Myanmar Crisis and the Continuity and Change of ASEAN Norms”,The Southeast Asian Review 32(1) (in Korean)
\n2021.”Malaysia 2020: The Politics of Parliamentary Coup and Dilemma”,The Southeast Asian Review 31(1) (First author, in Korean)
\n2021.”Malaysia\u2019s Middle-Power Diplomacy Strategy and Neutrality”,Journal of Asiatic Studies 64(3) (in Korean)
\n2021.”South Korea-Malaysia Relations: Political and Economic Interactions from the Perspective of Bilateralism and Regionalism”, University of Malaya Press (First author)
\n2020.”The COVID-19 Pandemic and the New Southern Policy: Focusing on ASEAN”,The Southeast Asian Review 30(1) (in Korean)
\n2020.”Malaysia 2019: The Crisis of Pakatan Harapan and the Launch of a New Opposition Coalition”,The Southeast Asian Review 30(1) (First author, in Korean)
\n2019.”ASEAN 2018: Innovation, Resilience, Progress, and the Reshaping of Order?”,The Southeast Asian Review 29(1) (Second author, in Korean)
\n2019.”Malaysia 2018: The Fall of the Barisan Nasional (BN) Regime and the Experiment of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) Regime”,The Southeast Asian Review 29(1) (First author, in Korean)
\n2018.”ASEAN in 2017: The Crisis of Democracy and ASEAN Norms”,The Southeast Asian Review 28(1) (in Korean)
\n2018.”Malaysia 2017: The Rise of Political Islam”,The Southeast Asian Review 28(1) (First author, in Korean)
\n2017. “A Study on ASEAN Studies in Korea: In Search of ASEANology?”,Asia Review 7(1) (in Korean)
\n2017.”ASEAN 2016: A Change or Continuation of the ASEAN Way”,The Southeast Asian Review 27(1) (in Korean)
\n2017.”China and the Network of East Asia Think Tanks : Socializing China into an East Asia Community?”,Asian Survey 57(3) (First author)
\n2017.”East Asian Regionalism and Track 2 Diplomacy: The Case of NEAT”,East Asian Studies 36(1) (in Korean)
\n2017.”Malaysia 2016: The Continuation of Crisis and the Loss of Opportunity”,The Southeast Asian Review 27(1) (First author, in Korean)
\n2016.”The ROK-ASEAN Dialogue Relations and ASEAN Norms: An Analysis of Diplomatic Documents from the Early 1980s”,The Southeast Asian Review 26(1) (in Korean)
\n2015.”The ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC): Issues, Challenges and Prospects”,The Southeast Asian Review 25(1) (in Korean)
\n2014.”Issues and Prospects of the ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC)”,Journal of International Politics 17(3) (in Korean)
\n2014.”East Asian Community and Human Security”,The Journal of International Relations 19(2) (in Korean)
\n2013.”Research Trends on Malaysia in Korea”,Asia Review 3(2) (in Korean)
\n2013.”The Political Economy of Regional Free Trade Agreements in East Asia: More Political Than Economic”,Actual Problems of Economics 150(12) (First author)
\n2011.”The Changing Role of Dialogue in International Relations of Southeast Asia”,Asian Survey 51(5) (First author)
\n2011.”East Asian Development and Contrasting Views among ASEAN Member Nations over East Asian Regionalism”,Korean Journal of Defense Analysis 23(4) (First author)
\n2010.”REVIEWING ASEAN IN 2010: FROM VISION TO ACTION?”,Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 15 (First author)
\n2009.”REVIEWING THE 14th AND 15th ASEAN SUMMIT 2009: CRISIS AND OPPORTUNITIES”,Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 14(First author)
\n2008.”Regional Integration in Southeast Asia”, University of Malaya Press
\n2008.”BILATERALISM AND REGIONALISM IN THAILAND-SOUTH KOREA RELATIONSHIP: THE CASE OF ASEAN-KOREA FTA”,Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 13
\n2007.”ASEAN WAY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS AND CHALLENGES FOR REGIONAL INTEGRATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA”,Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 12<\/p>\n

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

Served as International Director of the Korean Association of Southeast Asian Studies, overseeing the Korea\u2013ASEAN academic exchange program from 2013 to 2017. Currently serves as Director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Korea, responsible for academic programs, international conferences, and research project development. Also serves as the Korean contact person for NEAT (Network of East Asian Think Tanks), participating for over a decade in conference organization, agenda-setting, and issue development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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