Brief history of academic career:
- Professor Emeritus at Pusan National University
- Ph.D. in International Politics at Universite de Paris1
- Visiting Professor at Univeriste de Rene Descartes, Paris.
- Former President of the Korean Society of ContemporaryEuropean Studies
- Senior Adviser of the Korea-EU Forum
Selected books:
- The Foreign Policy of Charles de Gaulle (1997)
- The Politics of European Integration? From Community to Union (2012)
- Contemporary Northeast Asia? From Conflict to Carpet Peace (2014)
- Successes in Diplomacy? From the Diplomacy of the Congress of Vienna to Modern Korean Diplomacy (2017)
- The Foreign Policy of the European Union and the Korean Peninsula(2019)
