the Chair of Asian Young Scholar Group
: 『KORASIAN』 (08/2024~)
Ph.D. Candidate in Korean Literature at Yonsei (09/2022~)
Librarian - Official Licensed in Korea(02/2020)
Jonghwan Yoon researches the Networks of Ahuthor-Subjects, Inter-Textuality through the Influence between Text-Subject, and Structural Causality of Korean Literature; relationship between society, unconsciousness, and literature including the aesthetics of literary art itself
Also covers below :
* Korean Modern/Contemporary Poetry
* Korean Modern Novel/Novela/Fiction
* Authors' Literary Manifestation against Censorship
* Asian Studies
* Complexity system, Nature Philosophy
* Comparative literature
◈ 2022 - Current
- Yonsei University, Dept.of Korean Language and Literature, PhD
◈ 2020 - 2022*
- Yonsei University, Dept.of Korean Language and Literature, M.A. 2022
◈ 2014 - 2020** (Double Major)
- Yonsei University, Dept.of Korean Language and Literature, B.A. 2020
- Yonsei University, Dept.of Library and Information Science, B.A. 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
Team Project
◈ Interrogating the Fifth Republic: State, Power and Control in South Korea, 1980-1987
: The 4th RIKS Korean Studies Workshop selected team
: Yoon Hwa Walke(SOAS), Choolil Peter Han(Cambridge), Gahyun Lee(Tate Modern Museum, RCA), Chae Kyoun Ha(Cambridge), Jonghwan Yoon(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.
Oral Presentation
◈ "Beyond the Affect of Revenge", Institute for Gender and Affect studies, Korea, Oct 1st 2022
: Anayzing the over-determinated affect of revenge throughout the world with examples of Korean contemporary poems
◈ "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 ", The concept and reality of Empathy/Sympathy for Co-Existence, 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", The 4th Korean Studies Forum, 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 (Korea Artista Proleta Federacio), 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", The Media Horizon of Modern East Asian Enlightenmentism, International Association of Korean Literary and Cultural Studies (INAKOS), Feb 14th 2025.
Discussant
◈ "A Discussion for 'the Calculation Method of Platform Labors", International Conference for Historical Perspectives beyond the Post-Humanism, Institute for Gender and Affect Studies, Korea, Jan 10th-11st 2025
◈ 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(한국시학연구) 2023, vol., no.73, pp. 203-236 (Peer-reviewed, indexed in KCI)
◈ 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(국제어문) 2023, vol., no.96, pp. 277-303 (Peer-reviewed, indexed in KCI)
◈ Jonghwan Yoon. (2023) Poet Kim Soo-Young and Indeterminate Inflorescences ― Restructuring History of Criticism on Flower of Kim Soo-Young. The Korean Poetics Studies(한국시학연구) 2023, vol., no.75, pp. 67-102 (Peer-reviewed, indexed in KCI)
◈ Jonghwan Yoon. (2023) Poetry as the Genetic Becoming of an Ensemble of Human Beings and AI - How to Read Korean ChatGPT SIA’s Collection 'Reason for Writing Poems'. Korean Language and Literature in International Context(국제어문) 2023, vol., no.98, pp. 65-96 (Peer-reviewed, indexed in KCI)
◈ 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(한국근대문학연구) 2023, vol.24, no.2, pp. 47-82 (Peer-reviewed, indexed in KCI)
◈ Jonghwan Yoon. (2023) The Poetic Encounter between Poetry of Haizi and Korean Modern Poems ― How the Affect of Barley Images as ‘the Common’ Keeps the Poems Alive. Studies of Chinese & Korean Humanities (한중인문학연구) 2023, vol., no.81, pp. 103-132 (Peer-reviewed, indexed in KCI)
◈ 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 (한국현대문학연구) 2024, vol., no.72, pp. 295-331 (Peer-reviewed, indexed in KCI)
◈ 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 veiw. The Korean Poetics Society (한국시학연구) 2024, vol., no.78, pp. 193-236 (Peer-reviewed, indexed in KCI)
◈ Jonghwan Yoon. (2024) How the Literature and Film of Adopted Korean-Danish Artists Appropriate the Meaning of ‘Root/Identity’: The Plastictity and Its Aesthetic Politics of Eva Tind, Jane Jin Kaisen, and Maja Lee Langvad. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (비교문학) 2024, vol., no.93, pp. 109-148 (Peer-reviewed, indexed in KCI)
◈ 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 (한국문예비평연구) 2024, vol., no.82, pp. 167-197 (Peer-reviewed, indexed in KCI)
◈ Jonghwan Yoon. (2024) "Vulgarism" as sahyŏlch‘im, the acupuncture applying to stuck world - How to read Jeon Yoen-Kyoung. The Contemporary Poetry(현대시학) 2024, vol.620, pp. 68-107.
◈ Jonghwan Yoon. (2024) Sailing from Misuderstanding to Comprehension: A Suggestion for Direction of Korean Literature Studies. Korean Studies(한국연구) 2024, 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(현대소설연구) 2024, vol., no.95, pp. 301-332 (Peer-reviewed, indexed in KCI)
◈ Jonghwan Yoon. (2024) The 'MiGae(未開)' of Korea. Korean Studies(한국연구) 2024, 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 (한국시학연구) 2024, vol., no.80, pp. 177-222 (Peer-reviewed, indexed in KCI)
◈ 2024.07~ Jonathan Chan, poetry collection 『Going Home』(Landmark Books, Singapore) Eng to Kor
: Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2024: Best Debut – Poetry in English
◈ Teaching Assistant of Writing Lecture. University College of Yonsei Mar/2023 - Current
: 2-3 classes with freshmen of college
◈ Korean Literature Assistant for international Students. Liberal Arts College Yonsei University. Mar/2020 - Feb/2023.
: 15 students. Korean modern&contemporary literature, Academic writing in Korean, Debate
◈ Language tutor for other Asian students. Education Center of Convergence for Humanities. Mar/2021 - Dec/2021
: 4 students from China and Japan. Academic writing in Korean, Grammer for advanced level students.
◈ 2012 Talent Medal of Korea ; 大韓民國人材賞 (The President of Korea)
◈ 2018 Yoon Dong-Ju Literary Award ; Poetry (Yonsei University)
◈ 2018 Lee Han-Yeol Literary Award ; Poetry (Lee Han-Yeol Memmorial Museum)
◈ 2019 Park Young-jun Literary Award ; Novel (Yonsei University)
◈ 2019 White Horse Critics Award (MyoungJi University)
◈ 2019 The First Social Innovator of Yonsei University (Yonsei University)
◈ 2020 Summa Cum Laude (Yonsei University)
◈ 2020 Award for Scholars of Digital Humanities (Education Center of Convergence for Humanities)
◈ 2021 Grand Prize of Donation for Education (Ministry of Education)
◈ 2022 The 17th Community Service Award (Yonsei University)
◈ 2023 Merit Thesis Award in Humanities&Social (Yonsei University)
◈ 2024 Yonsei Young Scholars of 2023 (Yonsei University)
- Top 29 Grad-student of 2023 among whole Yonsei graduate students in every major
◈ Honored Scholarship for Academic Excellence in Korean Postgraduates(Ph.D.)
- The Kwanjeong Educational Foundation/2023-2025/￦22,000,000
◈ Yonsei Young Researcher Fellowship
- Graduate School of Yonsei University/2024/￦2,000,000
- Top 29 Grad-student of 2023 among whole Yonsei postgraduates in every major
◈ Honored Scholarship for Academic Excellence in BA&MA
- Yonsei University/2014-2021/full-scholarhip
◈ Social Innovation Activity&Research Fund
- Institute for Higher Education Innovation/2018-2022/￦15,000,000
- Paid forward the full scholarship to Society through education donation
◈ Scholarship for Public Service Activist at Seoul Commemorating KimDaeJung, the President of Korea
- KimDaeJung Peace Center/2019/￦2,000,000