1998

Ph.D. in Philosophy, Free University Berlin (Summa cum Laude)

1998

Graecum, Humboldt University Berlin

1995

M.A. in Philosophy and Film/Theater Studies, Free University Berlin

1992

Latinum, Humboldt University Berlin

1986

B.A. in Chinese Literature, SNU Seoul

since 2019, Member of HK+ Project Management Committee of KRF

since 2017, Vice-President of KSASA(=the Korean Society of Aesthetics and Science of Art)

since 2018, Member of Editorial Board of Mihak - The Korean Journal of Aesthetics

2016-19

Chairman of Editorial Board of Journal of Contemporary Art Studies

Books

2018

Great Thinkers in the History of Western Aesthetics, Seoul: Hyeonamsa, 2018.

2017

Siegfried Kracauer, Seoul: Commbooks, 2017.

Translations

2016

Living a life with Anxiety, Seoul: Verlag b, 2016.

2015

Theory of Aesthetic Education of F. Schiller, Seoul: Korea Dialogue Academy, 2015.

Articles

2020

“A Study on the Critical Philosophy of Life of Walter Benjamin: Focused on His Early Writings in the 1910s and the 20s”,『The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art』, Vol 60, 2020, pp. 57-92.

2020

“A Study on the Relation between Art and Play in the Modern Aesthetic Theories - Focused on the Theories of W. Benjamin and H. Schmitz”,『Journal of the Daedong Philosophical Association』, Vol. 89, 2020, pp. 383-410.

2020

“Heidegger's Time-Critical Response to the Truth of Art - Focused on the Relation between Hegel’s and Heidegger’s Philosophy of Art”,『PhilosophyㆍThoughtㆍCulture, Vol. 32』, 2020, pp. 46-73.

2019

“A Study on Existential Aesthetics and Mass Culture Theory of Siegfried Kracauer”,『The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art』, Vol 58, pp. 209-243.

2019

“A Study on the Relationship among Psychology, Ethics and Dogmatics in the Philosophy of S. Kierkegaard: focused on the “Introduction” of the Concept of Anxiety (1844)“,『The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art』, Vol 56, pp. 237-272.

2017

“A Study on the Theological Aesthetics of J.G. Hamann: Focused on His Theory on the Sensitive and His Early Writings”,『Kant-Studien』, Vol. 40, pp. 113-144.

2017

“A Study on the Relationship between Art and Play in the Modern Aesthetics(1) - Focusing on aesthetic theories of ancient Greece, Kant and Schiller”,『The Korean Journal of Art and Media』, Vol. 16. no. 2, pp.11-30.

2016

“The Redemption of the Aesthetic of Hamann and Kierkegaard,” in NJP ICA 2016 Proceeding Book (2016), pp. 123-135.

2015

“A Study on the historical Meaning of Lessing`s aesthetic Theory in 18th Century”,『Mihak -The Korean Journal of Aesthetics』, Vol. 81. No. 4, pp.129-163.

2014

“Cinema and ambiguous Traces carved in the Collectiv-Body,” in BIFFP Conference (BIFF Research Institute, 2014), pp. 48-57.

2014

“From purposive form to living gestalt - Considerations on the aesthetic theory of Schiller as a correction and widening of that of Kant‘,『Mihak -The Korean Journal of Aesthetics』, Vol. 80, pp. 345-386.