Professor emeritus
RESEARCH FIELD
- Asian History(Modern Japanese History)
EDUCATION
- 1963 - 1967 Graduated the Department of History, Seoul National University (B.A.)
- 1967 - 1970 Graduated the Department of Asian History, Graduate School, S.N.U.
- 1972 - 1979 Graduated the Committee of History and East Asian Languages,
- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University(Ph.D.in History)
WORK EXPERIENCE
- 1967-70 Instructor, Naval Academy, Republic of Korea.
- 1971-72 Fulltime Lecturer, King Sejong University.
- 1977-78 Visiting Researcher, University of Tokyo.
- 1980-2009 Professor, Department of Asian History, Seoul National University.
- 1982-1983 Member, Advisory Committee, Ministry of Finance, Korea.
- 1986 Foreign Visiting Researcher, St. Paul's University & Hitotsubashi University (Japan).
- 1993 Visiting Professor, Nankai University (China).
- 1994-1996 Member, Central Education Council, Ministry of Education, Korea.
- 1995-1999 Executive Director, Seoul National University Press.
- 1996-1999 President, Association of Korean University Presses.
- 1996-1998 Member, Advisory Committee, Seoul Metropolitan Government.
- 1996-1998 President, Association of Japanese History Research (Korea).
- 1997-2003.3 Chairman, Japanese Document Center, Seoul National University
- 1998-1999 Board Member, Korea Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation.
- 1998. 5-Present Board Member, Research Institute of Korean Archives and Records.
- 1999. 1-2000. 12 President, Korean Historical Association.
- 2000. 2 - 2001. 4 Vice-president, Federation of Korean Academic Associations.
- 2000. 12 - 2001. 3 Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo.
- 2001. 4 - 2003. 8 Councillor, Seoul National University.
- 2002. 8 Chairman, Executive Committee, 2002 Seoul International Conference for History.
- 2002. 9 - 2003. 8 Vice-chairman, Seoul National University Council.
- 2003. 3 - 2006. 8 Dean, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University
- 2003. 10 - 2009. 9 Board Member, National Institute of Korean History
- 2003. 10 - Present Regional Editor, (Cambridge Univ. Press )
- 2004. 1 - Present Member, International Advisory Board, (Social Science Research Institute, University of Tokyo and Oxford University Press)
- 2004. 1 - Present Board Member, Korea-Japan Cultural Exchange Foundation
- 2004. 11 - 2006. 8 Director, Institute for Japanese Studies, Seoul National University
- 2006. 9 - 2009. 8 President Northeast Asian History Foundation
- 2007. 3 - 2009. 8 Member, Korean National Committee for UNESCO
- 2008. 3 2012. 2 Board Member, Daewoo Foundation for Ajou University
- 2008. 5 - 2009. 8 Board Memeber, International Peace Foundation(Korea)
- 2008. 9 - 2009. 8 Chairman, Sub-committee for Humanities and Social Sciences, Korean National Committee for UNESCO
- 2009. 9 Present Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University
- 2009. 11 Present Chaired Professor, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
REPRESENTATIVE_PUBLICATIONS
- 「前近代の東アジアにおける曖昧な境界」， 史學會 編， 『歷史學の最前線』(東京大學出版會, 2004. 11.)
- <對日觀の變化形態と正しい相互認識ヘの道>, 小島康敬 編, ≪鏡のなかの日本と韓國≫(ぺりかん社, 2000)
- "Meiji Polity in View of the Land Tax Reform", Hardacre, H. ed., New Dimensions
- in the Study of Meiji Japan (Brill, Leiden, 1997).
- "History, Nationalism and Internationalism", Global Asia 2-1(Seoul, 2007)
- "History and Justice: Approaches to the Dokdo Issues", Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society-Korea Branch, Vol. 83(Seoul, 2008)
