Achievements


Education

2026–Present


PhD Candidate in Religious Studies


Seoul National University

2025

MA in Religious Studies

"The Adaptive Reconfiguration of Authority in Religion in the Post-Digital Era: A Media-Ecological Analysis of Korean Protestant Social Media Platform Engagement"

Advisor: Prof. Song Chong Lee, Ph.D.

Seoul National University

1997


BA in Theatre and Film Studies


Hanyang University


Professional Memberships

Korean Association for the History of Religions (한국종교학회)


Languages

Korean (native) 

English (advanced; research and publication)  

Classical Chinese (reading) 

Latin (reading) 

Japanese (reading)


Additional Information

Theoretical competencies

Jungian analytical psychology

Sociology of religion (Durkheim, Weber, Berger, Bellah)

Stigma theory (Goffman, Link & Phelan, Butler)

Material religion studies (Meyer, Orsi, Morgan, Latour)

Hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur, Bakhtin)

Civil religion theory

Methodological competencies

Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough)

Comparative religious studies (J. Z. Smith)

Qualitative research methods

Digital ethnography