My teaching at Freie Universität Berlin spans undergraduate, Master’s, and doctoral levels. It draws on my work in Korean Studies, political science, intellectual history, and the study of knowledge transfer.
I. Teaching Areas
My principal teaching areas include Korean politics and society, North Korea, inter-Korean relations and East Asian peace, Korea–Europe relations, Korean and East Asian intellectual history, and comparative approaches to unification and transformation.
II. Supervision
I supervise undergraduate, Master’s, and doctoral research in Korean Studies and Political Science. Over the years, I have supervised more than twenty doctoral students working on a broad range of topics, including Korean politics and society, political theory, intellectual and cultural history, international relations, Korea–Europe relations, and transnational and comparative studies.
Doctoral supervision is an important part of my academic work. I encourage researchers to combine close engagement with their empirical material and historical contexts with broader conceptual questions, and to situate their work within relevant international and interdisciplinary debates.
III. Knowledge Transfer and Professional Education
My teaching and knowledge-transfer activities also extend beyond the university. For many years, I have worked in cooperation with the Ministry of Unification of the Republic of Korea on educational programmes concerning German unification and the transformation of East Germany, particularly for public officials and teachers of history and social studies.
Rather than presenting the German experience as a model to be reproduced, these programmes examine what can—and cannot—be learned from it in the Korean context. They focus on how historical and policy experience is selected, translated, and adapted when it moves between different political and social settings.
This work brings together research, teaching, and knowledge transfer, connecting academic inquiry with public policy and education.