Jonghwan Yoon
Ph.D. Candidate in Korean Literature at Yonsei (09/2022~)
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Officially Licensed by the Government of Korea(02/2020)

Research Expertise 

Jonghwan Yoon researches Modern and Contemporary Korean Literature: Poetry, Fiction, and Literary Texts.

This research establishes a framework for understanding poetic diction in Korean poetry and reconstructs the historical trajectory of Korean poetic literature through this lens.

Yoon explores the aesthetic dimensions of literary texts to investigate the structural causality between literature, society, and the unconscious.

Yoon examines intertextuality as shaped by linguistic intersections, mutual permeation across languages, and the dynamic relationship between the author and subjectivity.

Also covers below :

Korean Modern / Contemporary Poetry (criticism) 

Korean Modern Novel / Novela / Fiction 

Comparative literature / Translation

Authors' Literary Manifestation against Censorship 

Complexity system/Nature Philosophy

 Education
• Ph.D. in Modern Korean Literature (in progress)

: Department of Korean Language and Literature, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea 2022
• M.A. in Modern Korean Literature 

: Department of Korean Language and Literature, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea 2020 – 2022*

• B.A. in Korean Language and Literature (Double Major)

: Department of Korean Language and Literature, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea 2014 – 2020**

• B.A. in Library and Information Science

: Department of Library and Information Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea 2014 – 2020

* the Dissertation : The Body and Love of Kim Soo-Young's Poems ― focusing on 'Fatigue of Life' (Merit Thesis Awarded) 

** 2015-2017 : Assistant Coast Guard, Central Regional Coast Guard Headquaters, Korea Coast Guard

 Publications (Peer-reviewed Only)

• Jonghwan Yoon. (2022) The Body and Love of Kim Soo-Young's Poems - focusing on 'Fatigue of Life'. Dissertation for MA. Graduate School of Yonsei Univerisity .

• Jonghwan Yoon. (2023) Study on the Conciousness of Immigrant in Ma Jong-Gi’s Early Poems ― focusing on the poems in 1960s. The Korean Poetics Studies , vol., no.73, pp. 203-236.

• Jonghwan Yoon. (2023) The Seolwoom of Delivery Labor Subjects in Literaray Works during the Pandemic ― focusing on Joo Chang-Yoon’s Poems and Literary Record of Platform Labor. Korean Language and Literature in International Context , vol., no.96, pp. 277-303.

• Jonghwan Yoon. (2023) Poet Kim Soo-Young and Indeterminate Inflorescences ― Restructuring History of Criticism on Flower of Kim Soo-Young. The Korean Poetics Studies , vol., no.75, pp. 67-102.

• Jonghwan Yoon. (2023) Poetry as the Genetic Becoming of an Ensemble of Human Beings and A.I. ― How to Read Korean ChatGPT SIA’s Collection Reason for Writing Poems. Korean Language and Literature in International Context , vol., no.98, pp. 65-96.

• Jonghwan Yoon. (2023) How the Performance of Vulgarism and Slang in Jeon Young-kyung’s Poem Collection Mrs.Kim San-wol Affected Poetic Diction Innovation of Korea in After War Period. Journal of Modern Korean Literature , vol.24, no.2, pp. 47-82.

• Jonghwan Yoon. (2023) The Poetic Encounter between Poetry of Haizi and Modern Korean Poems ― How the Affect of Barley Images as ‘the Common’ Keeps the Poems Alive. Studies of Chinese & Korean Humanities , vol., no.81, pp. 103-132.

• Jonghwan Yoon. (2024) The Modernity of Poems of Park Tae-Jin in After-War Period— Park’s Thoughts on Relationship between Life World and Atmosphere in 1960s—. The Journal of Modern Korean Literature , vol., no.72, pp. 295-331.

• Jonghwan Yoon. (2024) Lim Hwa Anticipatorily Plagiarized Kim Soo-young and Kim Soo-young Mourned Lim Hwa(1): Reconstructing the History of Korean Modern Poetry on two Literati through Studying Resemblance of their World view. The Korean Poetics Society , vol., no.78, pp. 193-236. 

• Jonghwan Yoon. (2024) How the Literature and Film of Adopted Korean-Danish Artists Appropriate the Meaning of ‘Root/Identity’: The Plasticity and Its Aesthetic Politics of Eva Tind, Jane Jin Kaisen, and Maja Lee Langvad. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE , vol., no.93, pp. 109-148.

• Jonghwan Yoon. (2024) The Ecological Mourning of Ma Jong-Gi's Early Poems in 1960s : How to Read the Series Poems Case of Disease(證例). The Journal of Korean Literary Criticism , vol., no.82, pp. 167-197.

• Jonghwan Yoon. (2024) "Vulgarism" as sahyŏlch‘im, the acupuncture applying to stuck world ― How to read Jeon Yoen-Kyoung Again. The Contemporary Poetry , vol.620, pp. 68-107. 

• Jonghwan Yoon. (2024) Sailing from Misunderstanding to Comprehension: A Suggestion for Direction of Korean Literature Studies. Korean Studies , vol.August. 

• Jonghwan Yoon. (2024) “Coup ďÉtat of Things”: Reconstructing the Criticism on the Story A Room of Other of Choi In-Ho. The Journal of Korean Fiction Research , vol., no.95, pp. 301-332.

• Jonghwan Yoon. (2024) The MiGae(未開) of Korea. Korean Studies , vol.November. 

• Jonghwan Yoon. (2024) Aesthetical Politics of Poetry Collection Prehistory of Jeon Young-Kyoung: Composing as Reconstructing the History of Korean Literature and Appropriation toward Anxiety derived from the Influence being Disappearing by the Censorship in Cold War Period. The Korean Poetics Society , vol., no.80, pp. 177-222.

• Jonghwan Yoon. (2025) KuSang’s Two Appropirated Poetic Dictions in his Early Series Poems in 1950-70s: ‘Wasteland(焦土)’ and ‘MujuGongsan(無主空山)’. Journal of Modern Korean Literature , vol.25, no.1, pp. 105-142.

• Jonghwan Yoon. (2025) Literary Empathy: Interpreting Metaphorical Worlds and Their Structural Resemblance - With a Focus on Han Ha-un’s Poetry. Transdisciplinary Humanities , vol., no.20, pp. 111-145.

Research Experience
Team Project
• Interrogating the Fifth Republic: State, Power and Control in South Korea, 1980-1987 

: this project was selected for the 4th RIKS Korean Studies Workshop selected team 

: team members were YoonHwa Walker(SOAS), Peter Han(Cambridge), Gahyun Lee(Tate Modern, Royal College of Arts), Chae Kyoun Ha(Cambridge), Mindy Park(Manchester), and Jonghwan(Yonsei)

Graduate Research Assistant
• studied the unconsciousness and desire of poetic subjects in the war experience from the images revealed in modern Korean poetry anthology that issued right after the Korean War
• studied the way the images of light and waves inherent in modern Korean novels intersect with asynchronous worlds and time 

• studied how the beauty of language itself and the aesthetics of poetic language acquire a sort of politics in mutual relation with society 

• studied the new-materialism and rhetoric about thingness in Korean poems and novels. 

Conference and Presentations
Oral Presentation
• "Beyond the Affect of Revenge", Institute for Gender and Affect studies, Korea, Oct 1st 2022.

• "The Structural Relation of Labor Outsourcing and the Affect of 'Seolwoom(sadness/sorrow)' revealed in Contemporary Poetry and Recorded Text from Delivery Workers.", International Association of Language and Literature, Korea, Dec 10th 2022.

• "Modern Poems of Korea and Kinetic Energy of Their Words", UCLA Center for Korean Studies, Claremont College Enviro Lab, Los Angeles U.S., Feb 23rd-24th 2023 .

• "Kim Soo-Young And Indeterminate Inflorescences", KoreanPoeticsSociety, Korea, May 20th 2023 .

• "'Innovation of Korean Poetic Diction in PostWar period and Desire for Freedom", Modern Korean Literature Association, Korea, August 19th 2023 .

• "The Affective Encounter of Haizi's Poems and Korean Modern Poems - focusing on the Images of Barley", Shandong University, China, Oct 21st-22nd 2023 ; "海子和韩国当代诗的情动的遭遇 ― 通过关注麥(地)的意象", 第四届人文韩国学国际学术会, 山东大学, 济南, 中国. 

• "The Desire Surrounding Signifier of K-pop OPPA and its Genealogy", Asia Research Institute, SUNY at Buffalo (UB), NewYork U.S., Oct 27-28th 2023 .

• "The imagery of Island and Archipelago in Korean-Danish Literature and Arts : An Aesthetic Practice for its Continuous Movement of Thoughts", Korean Comparative Literature Association(KCLA) and Research Institute for the Tamla Culture, Jeju National Univ, Jeju Island Korea, Dec 1-2nd 2023 .

• "Park Tae-Jin before and after the Korean War : A Translator, A Friend of Kim Soo-Young, and A Poet", The Learned Society of Korean Modern Literature, SeoulNational University, Seoul, Korea, Feb 17th 2024 .

• "Coup ďÉtat of Things : Reconstructing the Criticism on the Story 'A Room of Other' of Choi In-Ho", The Society Of Korean Fiction, Zoom Online, Jul 5th 2024 .

• "Poetic Diction of Korea and its Rhetorics for Living World", Rhetoric Society of Korea, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Nov 30th 2024 .

• "Putting Ourselves into the Shoes of Metaphor-World by Empathizing through Structural Homeomorphism", Sookmyoung Research Institute for Humanities, Dec 13rd-14th 2024 .

• "Understanding the History of Korean Modern Literature around Haegeumjochi (해금조치) in 1988 and the Necessity for the History of Influences", Research Institue of Korean Studies at Korean University, Jan 16th-17th 2025 .

• "Love Liberated from the Love: The Philosophy on Love of Lim-Hwa ", Symposium Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of KAPF, The Society of Scholars in Lim-Hwa Studies, Feb 13th-14th 2025 .

• "Operation Name: Re-Appropriate the 'MuJuGongSan(無主空山)' from the Anthropocentric! - Reconstructing the Criticism on GuSang's Poems in 1950-1970", International Association of Korean Literary and Cultural Studies (INAKOS), Feb 14th 2025.

• "Appropriation or Synchronicity in William Blake: A Comparative Study of Thought-Images in Auguries of Innocence and Korean Poetry", The Association of Comparative Studies of World Literature, May 31 2025.

Discussant

• "The Calculation Method of Platform Labors" of Na-Yeon Kim, Institute for Gender and Affect Studies, Korea, Jan 10th-11st 2025.

Translation
• 2024.07~2025.06.(Eng to Kor) Jonathan Chan's poetry collection Going Home (Landmark Books, 2022, Singapore)

Teaching Experience

Higher Education

• Lecturer, Department of Korean Language and Literature, College of Liberal Arts, Yonsei University Poetic Diction and Poetic Language (Major elective course) – 6 months (Sep. 2025 – Feb. 2026)

• Writing Tutor, Yonsei University Undergraduate Academic Writing  (Common Curriculum) – 2 years (Mar. 2023 – Feb. 2025)

• Korean Language Tutor, Institute for Humanities Convergence Education, Yonsei University Korean for international students – 1 year (Mar. 2021 – Dec. 2021) 

• Literature Tutor, College of Liberal Arts, Yonsei University Courses for international students: What is Literature?, Reading Contemporary Poetry, Writing Literary Criticism – 2 years (Mar. 2020 – Feb. 2022)

• Special Lecturer, Dept.of Education, Yonsei University The Principles of Education Curriculum (Major elective course) – 1 day (Mar. 10th, 2021)    

Public and Community Education

• Lecturer, Point Nemo Cultural Collective Reading Korean Poetry – 3 months (Mar. 2025 – Jun. 2025)

• Workshop Facilitator, Underdog Coffee, Seoul Poetry and Metaphor: How Does Reading Literature Become Practicing Empathy? – 1 day workshop (Jun. 28, 2025)

 Awards
• 2012 Presidential Talent Medal of Korea ; 大韓民國人材賞 , The President of Republic of Korea

• 2012 Commendation for Youth Protection and Development , Minister of Gender Equality and Family, Republic of Korea

• 2015 Commendation for Contribution to Coastal Security , Minister of Public Safety and Security, Republic of Korea

• 2018 Commendation for Contribution to National Education , Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Education, Republic of Korea

• 2018 Winner of Yoon Dong-Ju Literary Award ; Poetry , Yonsei University

• 2018 Winner of Lee Han-Yeol Literary Award ; Poetry , Lee Han-Yeol Memmorial Museum

• 2019 Winner of Park Young-jun Literary Award ; Novel , Yonsei University

• 2019 Runner-up of White Horse Critics Award, MyoungJi University

• 2019 6th Donggyo Talent Award, Surim Foundation

• 2019 The First Social Innovator of Yonsei , President & Director of Institue for Higher Education Innovation, Yonsei University

• 2020 1st-Class Honors (Top 1%), President of Yonsei University

• 2020 Excellence Award, 1st Digital Humanities Academic Competition, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Yonsei University

• 2020 Korea Education Donation Award (Menbongdan), Minister of Education, Republic of Korea

• 2021 Hall of Fame, Korea Education Donation Awards (Menbongdan), Minister of Education, Republic of Korea

• 2022 17th Yonsei Social Service Award – Truth Category, President of Yonsei University

• 2023 Merit Thesis Award (Outstanding Humanities & Social Sciences Thesis), President of Yonsei University

• 2024 Yonsei Young Scholar, Graduate School Dean, Yonsei University

Fellowship & Scholarship

Ph.D. in Korean Literature, Yonsei University 

• Academic Excellence Fellowship, Kwanjeong Educational Foundation; 관정이종환교육재단 (Full tuition and stipend, 2 years)

• Academic Research Fund (ARF), College of Liberal Arts, Yonsei University (Research incubating support, 2 semesters)

• Social Innovation and Research Fellowship, Institute for Innovation in Higher Education, Yonsei University 

M.A. in Korean Literature, Yonsei University

• Full Tuition Scholarship, Graduate School of Yonsei University (2 years)

• Dissertation Fellowship (DF), College of Liberal Arts, Yonsei University (1 semester)

B.A. in Library and Information Science, Yonsei University

• Full Tuition Scholarships for Academic Excellence, awarded over 4 years by: 

- Korea Foundation for Leaders ; 한국지도자육성장학재단 (2 years)

- EBS Scholarship Foundation (1 year)

- Incheon Talent Development Foundation ; 인천인재육성재단 (1 year)

Public Interest and Civic Engagement Awards

• Seoul Scholarship for Public Service, Seoul Scholarship Foundation ; 서울장학재단 (1 year)

• Kim Dae-jung Nobel Public Leadership Scholarship, Kim Dae-jung Peace Center & Library ; 김대중대통령평화센터&김대중도서관 (1 year)

Academic Activities

Academic Service and Institutional Roles

• Peer Reviewer, Journal of Modern Literary Theory Association of Korea (Aug. 2024 – present)

• General Secretary, Lee Cheong-jun Memorial Society (Sep. 2022 – Feb. 2025)

• Research Assistant, Humanities and Arts Advancement Project, Yonsei University (Oct. 2022 – Feb. 2024)

• Teaching & Research Assistant to Professor Jeong Gwa-ri (Myung-gyo Jeong), Dept. of Korean Language and Literature, Yonsei University (Mar. 2021 – Feb. 2022)

• Teaching & Research Assistant to Professor Kang-seok Cho, Associate Dean of Planning, College of Liberal Arts, Yonsei University (Mar. 2023 – Feb. 2024)

Public Engagement and Extracurricular Academic Activities

• Humanities & Social Innovation Ambassador, Institute for Higher Education Innovation, Yonsei University (Mar. 2020 – Feb. 2024)

• Judge, HULT Prize Regional Competition (2022)

• Session Facilitator, SK SOVAC – Social Value Festival (2020)