Faculty
Faculty Members
Dr. Jensen, Ron | oscarsen@gmail.com | TEL. | +82-2-3408-3702 | |
areas of interest | Ethics, culture and economy/business, sociology, world and comparative religions | |||
Academic background | Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1991 | |||
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Dr. Jensen is a professor of business ethics in the SSMBA program at Sejong University. He also teaches courses in culture, comparative religions, and the sociology of language. He has an M.A. In history of religions and a Ph.D. in social foundations of education from The University of Iowa. His Ph.D. dissertation was a religio-historical analysis of the life and thought of Horace Mann. His peer-reviewed journal article, “Social Change and the Changing Meaning of Religion in a Pluralistic Society: Implications for the Public Schools”, received an outstanding writing award from the University of Iowa, and he received The University of Iowa's Outstanding Teaching Award in 1998. His current research is in the area of cultural and ethical foundations of economics and business, as well as the role of religion in international relations. | |||
Dr. Kim, Joungwon | kimjw@sejong.ac.kr | TEL. | +82-2-3408-3159 | |
areas of interest | International politics, international law, Korean politics | |||
Academic background | J.D. Harvard Law School, 1973 Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University (SAIS), 1967 M.A. Johns Hopkins University (SAIS), 1965 B.A. Columbia University, 1962 | |||
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Dr. Kim is a Distinguished Professor of International Politics and Law at Sejong University, and was a practicing Attorney at Law in the United States for many years. He is the author of Divided Korea: The Politics of Development 1945-1972 (Harvard University Press, 1975), Korea: The Turbulent Decades (Yejon Publishing Co. 1992), and The Development of Korean Diplomacy (Chip Moon Dang, 1996), as well as many articles. Dr Kim has taught at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Rutgers University, and at Harvard University. He has been a Research Fellow at Columbia University's Research Institute on Communist Affairs and at Harvard Law School (East Asian Legal Studies). Among other public positions, he was the President of the Korean Political Association for Future Studies, President of the Korea-China Forum, Ambassador-at-Large for the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and President of the Korea Foundation. | |||
Dr. Ihm, Chon-sun | ihmcs@sejong.ac.kr | TEL. | +82-2-3408-3129 | |
areas of interest | international development, human resource policy | |||
Academic background | Ph.D., Harvard Univ. 1990 | |||
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Chon Sun. Ihm is Professor of Education and Social Policy and of the Faculty of Asian Studies at Sejong. He had served as Dean of Humanities, and Director of the Youth Policy Institute at Sejong University. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a bachelor?셲 degree in Economics (1997), Dr. Ihm holds masters (1978) and doctoral (1990) degrees in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from Harvard University. His areas of knowledge include Human Resource and International Development, Economics and Finance of Education, International Education, and Youth and Culture. Dr. Ihm has been awarded a British Council Fellowship at the Institute of Education of London University, and a Visiting Scholarship at the East Asia Institute of U. C. Berkeley, and was recently, selected as Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in the United States. He has served in policy advisory and consultant roles for the Governments, the private sector, and several international organizations, including the OECD, World Bank, UNESCO, and ADB. His recent research and publications include topics on Transnational Mobility of Higher Education, Human Resources Development, National Youth Policy, Education and Workplace Qualification and Competencies, and International Education. | |||
Dr. Kim, Soo-Yeon | kimsy@sejong.ac.kr | TEL. | +82-2-3408-3634 | |
areas of interest | Linguistics, syntax, comparative linguistics, functional grammar, language acquisition, cognitive science | |||
Academic background | Ph.D. Harvard University, 1996 | |||
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Dr. Kim is a Professor of Linguistics at Sejong University. She is the author of Dependencies: A Study of Anaphoricity and Scrambling (Hanshin Press, 1996), English Conversation (Daehan Textbook Publishing, 2002), and A Teacher's Guide to English Conversation (Daehan Textbook Publishing, 2002). Her recent articles include Opacity in the Interpretation of Anaphors, Korean Journal of Linguistics, 2007) and E-type Anaphora will Do in Studies of Generative Grammar, 2006). She has served as Language Director of the Executive Training Program sponsored by the EU, conduced a Korean language teaching material development project and created an intensive Korean language program. She has also served as the director of the Asian Studies Program at Sejong University. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard University studying cross-linguistic parametric variation concerning word order and the anaphoric dependencies, focussing on the Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Icelandic, and English languages. She has taught Korean language courses at various levels at George Washington University, tutorial courses for linguistics majors at Harvard University, and theoretical linguistic courses in Korea. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at NYU and a Coordinate Researcher at the Harvard-Yenching Institute. | |||
Dr. Lee, Un-Sunn | leeus@sejong.ac.kr | TEL. | +82-2-3408-3127 | |
areas of interest | Eastern and Western Philosophy of Education, Comparative Studies in Philosophy and Religion, Korean history and Philosophy, Women?셲 Studies | |||
Academic background | Ph.D. Sungkyunkwan University , 2007 Dr. Theol. University of Basel (Universität Basel), 1988 Liz. University of Basel (Universität Basel), 1985 B.A. Ewha Womans University , 1981 | |||
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Dr. Lee is a Professor of Education at Sejong University. She studied French Language and Literature at Ewha Womans University, and at Basel University in Switzerland she received her Master and Doctoral degrees in theology and philosophy. Her doctorial dissertation was entitled Die religiöse Grundlage der Menschenbildung bei H. Pestalozzi und Wang. Yang-Ming. In 1996 - 1997, she was a visiting scholar at Northwestern University, U.S.A. Recently, she received her second Ph.D. in Korean Philosophy with a dissertation entitled A Quest for Confucian Religiosity Embodied in the Life and Thoughts of Woman Confucian Scholars in the late Chosun Dynasty focused on IM Yunjidang and Kang Heibgukdang. She is the author of Korean Feminist Theology in the Postmodern Era (1997), The New Dimensions of Korean Philosophy of Education (2000), Confucianism, Christianity and Feminism (2003), and A Study on Korean Feminist Systematic Theology (2004). She is interested in comparative and integral studies in education, philosophy and religion, and makes efforts to review them from a Korean feminist perspective. | |||
Dr. Cho, Mi-Hea | mihec@sejong.ac.kr | TEL. | +82-2-3408-3711 | |
areas of interest | Tourism & Internet Marketing, Information, Consumer Behavior, Development | |||
Academic background | Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University 2001 M.A. Sejong University 1991 B.A. Hanyang University 1986 | |||
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Dr. Cho is currently the Director of Asian Studies as well as the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Sejong University. She also teaches courses in Tourism marketing, Internet marketing, and tourist behavior. Her major is Leisure Studies and Tourism. She has a Ph.D. in Leisure Studies from Pennsylvania State University. Her Ph.D. dissertation was information value of travel-related information. She received the research awards of best paper in TTRA (2002, USA), CHRIE (2003, USA), KASTL (2006, Korea), and TSSK (2010, Korea). Her current research is in the area of Internet information and cross-cultural information behavior as well as tourist behavior. | |||
