Wonseok (Kevin) Yang

Wonseok Yang (楊沅錫) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sinographic Literatures at Korea University. He also serves as Vice Director of the Institute for Sinographic Literatures and Philology at Korea University, and currently holds the position of Vice President of The Confucian Classics Society of Korea. His research focuses on premodern Korean classical studies, Korean philology, and Sinographic literatures, with particular attention to how these traditions developed within the broader East Asian context. His monograph Theories and Issues of Chinese Character Study in the Chosŏn Period (2018) offers a comprehensive exploration of Chinese character studies in Korea during the Chosŏn dynasty. Professor Yang further serves as Principal Investigator for several large-scale projects funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea, including “A Study of Surveying and Analyzing the Research on Korean Studies in English-speaking Academia and Creating a Topographic Map of the Research in the Digital Environment” (2024–2027), and “Creation of Database on Civil Service Examination Documents & Description of History of Rhetoric and Logic of Examination Literature in the Chosŏn Period” (2019–2025).

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