2022

  • [CLOSED] Final presentation on the National Confidential Project, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, (December 20, 2022)
  • [CLOSED] ‘Digital Currency Conflict: The Geopolitics of CBDCs,’ Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), Sejong, South Korea (December 19, 2022)
  • [CLOSED] Dialogue on China and ROK-U.S. Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), Washington, DC USA (December 7th, 2022)
  • ‘The Weaponization of Supply Chains in the Contactless Economy under COVID-19: The Role of the U.S.-China Race for Supremacy in AI in the Japan-South Korea Chip War,’ 1) Project on Navigating the Emerging Geoeconomics Order, School of Regulation and Global Governance (REGNET), Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (August 17, 2021); 2) Session on East Asian Diplomacy, Early Career Researchers and Graduate Students Conference, ‘East Asia on the Move: Shifting Dynamics,’ The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom (September 2, 2021); 3) Department of Political Science, the Asian Studies Program and the Chinese Studies Program & the Political Economy Program, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN USA (October 12, 2021); 4) Japanese Politics Online Seminar Series (JPOSS)/Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, USA (October 22, 2021); 5) The 13th Annual Convention of Korean International Studies Association (KISA) & the 15th Congress of Asian Political and International Studies Association 2021, “Operationalizing an East Asian Community of Peace and Development: Challenges and Opportunities,” Ewha Womans University, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the Korea Foundation (KF) through Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Seoul, South Korea and Osaka, Japan (November 26-27, 2021); 6) East Asia Study Group, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom (December 2, 2021); 7) Panel on Technology and Economics at conference, “Uncertainty: The Indo-Pacific Region and American Foreign Policy,” America in the World Consortium (AWC), University of Texas at Austin (March 4, 2022); 8) Department of Government, Georgetown University (April 8, 2022); 9) [CLOSED] Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), Sejong, South Korea (July 19, 2022); 10) [CLOSED] Japan Foundation Cultural Center, Seoul, South Korea (July 30, 2022); 11) [CLOSED] Global Asia Initiative, NYU Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (September 12-16, 2022
  • [CLOSED] Session on ‘Privacy and Ethics in the Digital Age,’ Chosun Ilbo-Asian Leadership Conference 2022, The Shilla Seoul, Seoul, South Korea (July 13, 2022)
  • [CLOSED] Roundtable on ‘Framing the Future: U.S.-ROK Tech Cooperation to Achieve Net Zero,’ the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), Seattle, WA USA (June 14, 2022)
  • ‘The Art of Evasion in the Contactless Economy: Cyber-hacking for Cryptocurrencies and Money Laundering by North Korea under Existing Sanctions,’ in Panel, “Multilateral Sanctions Revisited,” International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN USA (March 30-April 2, 2022)

    • ‘Expertise as a Response to the Limits of Multilateralism: The Case of South Korea’s ‘Vaccine Procurement Task Force’ for COVID-19 Vaccines amid Unequal Access via the COVAX Facility,’ Fung Global Fellows Internal Seminar, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), Princeton University (February 17, 2022)