Seongho Yoon is Professor of English at Hanyang University. He received his B.A. and M.A. in English from Seoul National University, and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

He is the author of Writing as an Underdog: A Geography of Asian American Literature (2012), winner of the prize for distinguished scholarship of the Association of English Language and Literature of Korea, and The Transgressive Spatial Imagination in the Twentieth-Century American Novel (2018). He is also the co-author of At a Crossroads between Empire and Nation (2011) and The American Village in a Global Setting (2008). His articles on American literature and culture have appeared in numerous internal journals such as Societe, Ariel, CEA Critic, etc.

His primary research areas are American literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on Asian American and African American literature. Drawing on his extensive research experience in American culture and history, he is currently conducting humanistic research on Bitcoin. He is also working on cultural geography and a study of Philip Roth through the lens of age studies.

Courses taught by Professor Yoon include “Intellectual History of Bitcoin,” “Crypto Cultural Studies,” and “Key Figures Who Shaped the Crypto Scene.”

 

Profile: Conducts teaching and research in the Department of English Language and Literature, the Department of Mass Media and Scenario Contents, and the Department of the Philosophy of Bitcoin as Money.

Research Interests: Popular culture and the philosophy of money, based on linguistics.

Publications: Author of 18 works, including textbooks and monographs.

Profile: Since discovering Bitcoin by chance in 2014, Professor Oh has been studying, writing, and lecturing on Bitcoin. He has argued that surplus electricity should be used for Bitcoin mining, and more recently, he has been one of the earliest and most active voices in Korea to explain the United States’ strategic intentions behind dollar stablecoins.

Research Interests: Monetary humanities, geopolitics, and the international financial order.

Selected Books and Articles: 『비트코인은 강했다』 (2014), 『스마트콘트랙 신뢰혁명』 (2018), 『비트코인 지혜의 족보』 (2020), 『메타버스와 돈의 미래』 (2022), 『달러의 지정학과 비트코인』 (2023), 『더그레이트비트코인』 (2023), 『트럼프 시대의 지정학과 비트코인』 (2025).

Having read Philosophy and Western History at Korea University, Dr. Kim received PhD in economic history at the University of Cambridge with a dissertation on the history of the offshore market for US dollars, or the Euromarket, in the late twentieth century. His doctoral thesis examines contested features of the nascent market to contend how the national sovereignty underpinned the re-emergence of global finance before the age of neoliberalism. It also analyses the changing assumption regarding capital mobility within the context of contemporary politics such as the demise of Bretton Woods, European integration, the Cold War, and the growthmanship in the Global South. After his doctoral programme, Dr. Kim explored the relations between European international banks and authoritarian regimes in the Global South with case studies of the two Koreas and South Africa as a research fellow at the Geneva Graduate Institute from 2019-2023. Then he was elected as a Browaldh Postdoc at the economic history department of Uppsala University, where he initiated two projects; how social democrats in the Global North, in collaboration with developing countries, imagined alternative visions of Bretton Woods to facilitate the development of the Global South at UN organizations from the 1960s to the 1980s; and the (re)entry of the communist China in the global financial market at the City of London. After Kyungpook National University, in 2025, he joined the department of history at Hanyang University. His research includes the history of global finance and central banking, the global history of neoliberal and libertarian movement, social studies of cryptocurrency, external economic relations between North Korea and Western Europe (particularly Sweden), and the public history. His latest works have been published in Cold War History and International History Review. He also translated Crack-up capitalism: Market radicals and the dream of a world without democracy (2024) into Korean.

Dr. Kim welcomes postgraduate students in the history of finance, international banks and the two Korea in the late twentieth century, historical relations between finance and society, and the history of global neoliberal movement.

Hyungseob Lee is Professor of English at Hanyang University. His primary research areas include Early-Modern and Modern Drama, Irish Studies, and Film Studies.

His recent research projects include Literature as Transnational Humanities, Cultural Representations of American Suburbia, and A Defense of Plato’s (Anti-)Poetics. His current projects explore Shame in Irish literature, From Post-Agreement to Brexit: Redefining Contours of Contemporary Northern Irish Drama, and Nietzsche/Artaud on Theatre and Modernity.

His recent articles include “From Hamlet to Misterman: The Dionysian Man on Stage” in The Yeats Journal of Korea 58, “Love in the Time of the Troubles: The Cultural Politics of Tragic Form in Northern Irish Cinema” in Literature & Film 19.1, “Who’s Afraid of Sylvia?: Edward Albee and the Tragification of American Suburbia” in The Journal of Modern English Drama 30.2, “Richard Wagner and Yeats’s Vision of Poetic Drama” in The Yeats Journal of Korea 52, “Ethical Contours of the (Sub)urban Space-Time Relationship in the Early Postwar American Drama” in Forum for World Literature Studies 7.2, and “‘To every life an after-life. To every demon a fairy tale’: The Life and Times of an Irish Policeman in the British Empire in Sebastian Barry’s The Steward of Christendom” in JELL 57.3. He is also the co-author of 『영화로 보는 미국 역사』 (Konkuk University Press, 2018) and 『트랜스내셔널 지구공동체를 향하여』 (Hanyang University Press, 2018).

He has recently taught courses including “British Drama,” “Seminar in American Drama,” “English Renaissance Drama,” “American Culture and Media,” and “British History and Literature.”