Prof. Han, Oul | Major (Research Area) : Political Science, Cultural Politics, Area Studies, Korean Studies, Discursive Institutionalism, Cultural Translation, Culture-Shifting AI, Hallyu Office : J 1013 TEL : 02-705-7978 E-mail : okh@sogang.ac.kr |
1. Biography |
- Education
Ph.D. in Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin (2013–2016)
M.A. in International Area Studies (Europe), Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University (2010–2012)
B.A. in Fine Arts, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (2007–2009)
- Career
Assistant Professor, Department of Global Korean Studies, Sogang University (2024–present)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Web Science & Technologies, Universität Koblenz-Landau (2018–2020)
Postdoctoral Fellow, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (2018)
Postdoctoral Fellow, EHESS Centre for Korean Studies, Paris (2016–2017)
Localization Lead, 2bytes Corp. (2021–2023)
Translator (Webtoons, Monographs, Academic Books)
2. Academic Activities |
Peer Reviewer: ACL, EMNLP (social media, sentiment, culture-related tracks)
3. Research |
Cultural translation and affective literacy Discursive institutionalism and AI-based translation The intersection of Hallyu and AI
4. Selected Publications |
Han, O. (2025). Translating the K-wave: A Greater Discursive View. Korea Europe Review (accepted).
Han, O. (2025). Cultural-Affective Literacy Education in the Era of Generative AI: Proposing the Culture-Shifting AI Framework. Korean Journal of Digital Humanities (accepted).
Matsuo, A., Han, O., & Matsumura, N. (2024). The social media audience of diplomatic crisis. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 26(3), 922–939.
Han, O. (2021). Polarized Politics in South Korea: Political Culture and Democracy in Partisan Newspapers. Rowman & Littlefield. Online Appendix: https://klarahan.github.io/
5. Selected Translations |
Suk-kyung Hong, BTS on the Road (SNU Press, 2023) Jeeheng Lee, BTS and ARMY Culture (CommunicationBooks, 2019) History of Korean Popular Culture, The Era of K-pop (Academy of Korean Studies Translation Project)
6. Grants & Fellowships (Selected) |
Deutscher Übersetzerfonds (German Literary Translation Fund) Fritz Thyssen Foundation Workshop Grant (8,000 EUR) Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship DFG Research Grants

