August 28, 2023 at 1:13 AM
At the end of July 2023, I relocated to Doha, Qatar for one year, to conuduct my project, ROK-GCC as Visiting Fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs (formerly Brookings Doha Center). My project will be ROK-GCC and spread across three main issues and will conduct fieldwork in KSA, UAE and Qatar: Technology […]
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From July 1 to 5, 2023, I visited Taipei, Taiwan alongside colleagues of The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) of The Netherlands. Given the geopolitical tensions across the Taiwan Straits and the crucial importance of chips, our visit was filled with discussions with local policymakers, academics and industry persons on contingency scenarios, U.S.-China tensions […]
From June 11 to 16, 2023, I participated in the second edition of the Paris Defence Young Leaders Programme organized by IRSEM (Institut de la Recherche Stratégique et Militaire). My engagements with the foreign embassies in Seoul regarding economic security had led to the opportunity – when I was recommended by Sandra Cohen, Conseillère of […]
July 24, 2023 at 10:15 PM
At the end of summer in 2022, when I was pulling myself out of the Washington, DC policy circles after the passing of the CHIPS & Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act in the U.S., I was invited to contribute to a joint conference on US.-ROK Science and Tech Partnership on Critical Technologies in […]
In August 2022, I was asked to join the project on ‘Asia in the GCC: A New Strategic Partner?’ by Dr. Adel Abdel Ghafar of the Middle East Council on Global Affairs (MECGA) in Doha, Qatar. MECGA (formerly the Brookings Doha Center) had the proposal to hold two international conferences, one in the Gulf (MECGA […]
December 12, 2022 at 9:43 PM
In December 2022, the second phase of the Democracy in Asia Project of the Foreign Policy Program of the Brookings Institution was completed. I joined the project while at Princeton on a Fung Global Fellowship, and was invited by Dr. Shirley Syaru Lin of CAPRI (Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation) and a non-resident Senior […]
October 2, 2022 at 5:29 AM
I was invited to speak on a panel with the Oxford Global Society (OXGS) around mid-August 2022 when I was preparing for the interview for the Schmidt Futures – Oxford University (Mansfield College) fellowship. Since my job interview with the Nissan Institute at Oxford University in the first pandemic year this was my second interaction […]
September 27, 2022 at 12:06 PM
The long-awaited publication on net-zero that I have been working with National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) has now been published. Click the right for the PDF of the report. This policy report is an outcome of the expert panel held at the NBR HQ in Seattle on June 14, 2022 (read below for further […]
September 14, 2022 at 11:50 PM
The RSIS-GRIPS project that lasted half a year from February to August 2022 during my stay at Princeton has come to a close. This project has been special as I was able to connect with my coauthors at RSIS during the launch conference of International Strategy Forum – Asia Fellows at Schmidt Futures in April […]
August 8, 2022 at 11:09 AM
My book chapter on North Korea’s Cyber-hacking and the art of evasion on sanctions will be published by McGill-Queens University Press on September 15, 2022. This project has had a long time coming, from invitation to two rounds of conferences and workshops online during the pandemic and finally revision toward publication. My chapter is at […]
