The SNU in the World Program, administered by the Office of International Affairs (OIA) at Seoul National University (https://oia.snu.ac.kr/page/o_snu_in_world_programs.php) is a university-led and government-funded initiative to train undergraduate students to be globally engaged scholars and leaders. The SNU in the World Program with the Science & Justice Research Center (SJRC) at UC Santa Cruz is coordinated through the Science & Justice Research Center’s Visiting Scholar Program with Doogab Yi, Associate Professor of Science Studies at Seoul National University (https://bit.ly/2P9b7Wi). The SNU in the World Program at UC Santa Cruz is one of five other programs selected for funding and focuses on Innovation, Science and Justice. Other SNU Programs include visits to Washington DC (public policy), Japan (sustainable development), and Australia (climate crisis).
In January and February 2023, the SJRC hosted Professor Doogab Yi and students for two weeks. This years’ program consisted of a series of lectures with affiliated faculty at UC Santa Cruz, UC San Francisco, and Stanford along with field trips to the surrounding Bay Area museums, cultural centers, and sites of innovation such as Google. A welcome dinner at the Oakes College Provost House, a dinner with Everett Program Fellows and a final student presentation over lunch were also planned.
Select in-person lectures and activities allowed for a few additional guests to join. People were encouraged to express interest by selecting which activities they are interested in attending by marking any that apply in this Google Form.
Program
Refer to the Winter 2023 Schedule and Participant Biographies.
About Winter 2023 SNU Visiting Scholars
Doogab Yi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Science Studies at Seoul National University and Director of The SNU in the World Program with SJRC at UCSC on Innovation, Science and Justice (Winter 2023, 2024, 2025). His broad research interests lay in the intersection between science and capitalism in the 20th and 21st centuries, and he is currently working on several projects related to the development of science and technology within the context of capitalism, such as the history of biotechnology, the relationship between science and the law, and the emergence of the technologies of the 24/7 self. He teaches courses in the history of modern science, science and the law, and environmental history. Learn more at: https://doogab.wixsite.com/doogabyi
Information on Undergraduate and Graduate Students Coming Soon!
Graduate Researchers
ByeongWoong Min
- How does science make and change the understanding of the human body and vice versa? How does scientific knowledge define, demarcate, and exclude certain groups? How is it possible? What could I do? I have interest in the historical analysis of the construction of Korean bodies, including Korean Mixed-blood people, the disabled. I wrote my MA dissertation on racial hierarchy supported by bio-medical knowledge in the international adoption procedure between Korea and USA. Broadly, my research interest includes the birth of hygienic, healthy, and aesthetic body in South Korea.
- Publication
- ““Mixed-blood” Bodies and Racial Science in Korea’s Transnational Regime” (MA Thesis) Korean
- “From a Children’s Toy to an Instrument of Racial Science: The Adoption of the Color-top of the Milton Bradley Company, 1874-1930,” Journal of the Korean History of Science Society, 42(3), 487-519. Korean
- “The Adoptability and Hierarchy of ‘Mixed-Blood’ Bodies: Science and Medicine in the Transnational Adoption Between South Korea and the United States in the 1950-60s,” Society and History(사회와 역사) 135 (2022), 35-80. Korean
Sanghee Bae is a PhD Student in the Graduate Program of Science Studies at Seoul National University. She studies urban environmental history of 20th-Century Korea. In particular, she is interested in how human-built infrastructures intersect and merge with nonhuman actors and seeks to understand the deeper meanings of new landscapes created by these interactions.
Heesoo Cho is a Graduate Student in the Graduate Program of Science Studies at Seoul National University, Korea. After obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in Biology at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Heesoo Cho received a Master’s degree in the Program in History and Philosophy of Science at Seoul National University, with a thesis titled “Institutionalizing Ultrasonography, Transforming Pregnancy: Dissemination of Prenatal Ultrasonography in Korean Obstetrics, 1960s-1990s.” Now her research interest is how vaccination for infants has been instituted in modern Korea.
Shinhye Jang is a doctoral student in the Graduate Program of Science Studies, Seoul National University. Exploring the history of early 20th century’s aircraft industries of America, and having written the Master’s thesis about Samuel Pierpont Langley’s aerodynamics and his aircraft, she is interested in the historical process of technological development, the culture of technological pioneers and the operations of industrial finance. Now she works under the questions of how did the new fad of aviation emerged in the early 20th century, and how did the aviation “pioneers” identify themselves. Rather than following the previous narratives of scientific-heroes in the history of aviation or history of technology, she seeks to give more detailed explanations for the success of American technologies focusing on specific American cultures or values.
Undergraduate Researchers
Dahye Jeong is a junior majoring in business administration at Seoul National University. Having interest in social impacts of business, she started an environmental startup and worked there as an administrative representative. Now she is interested in exploring the ways in which companies achieve innovation and the legitimacy of institutional regulations imposed on pioneers of new market or technology.
Geon Heo: I am a senior majoring in Biological sciences at SNU, especially in Plant Biology. Plant biology seems to be a minor field, the leading edge of its field is innovative. It requires bunch of new techs such as genomic editing. GMO led the food innovation which saved millions of people. Still, many controversial problems are surrounding the technology. I would like to discuss the future of the science, the way we should pursue during rapid development of technology.
Geonmoo Lee: I am a senior majoring in mechanical engineering and electrical computer engineering at Seoul National University. I am interested in technologies that can help others, such as appropriate technology. In order to study these kind of engineering, it is also very important to establish the basic values, so I want to think deeply about what social justice really is and grow up through this program.
Hunsung Kim: I’m a senior majoring in Computer Science and Business Administration at Seoul National University. I’m currently interested in Natural Language Processing and self-driving technology.
Hyean Yang is a freshman in the College of Liberal Studies at Seoul National University. She is interested in uniting neuroscience (brain science) and art. Her ultimate goal is to plan exhibitions and projects that heal anxiety and negative emotions as art based on brain science. She is exploring a major that could bring her closer to her goal. She is currently interested in art management and computer science, and is also considering designing own major, called ‘Digital Arts Therapy‘.
Hyeonbeom Choi is a junior majoring in chemical and biological engineering and entrepreneurship at Seoul National University. His recent interests are on process optimization using artificial intelligence and venture industry. Also, he is a huge fan of art films and has confidence that art and innovation share significant features. He desires to get some brand-new inspirations during the program.
Hyeonyeong Lee is a senior majoring in Industrial engineering at Seoul National University. She is interested in data-driven HCD(Human-centered design). While studying data analysis and AI, she found that de-identification and unbiased processing of data are important not only for privacy but also for performance. In this program, she looks forward to understanding what the new social justice is that we need to pursue in the era of innovation.
Hyojeong Han is a senior majoring in Sociology and ‘Science, Technology, and Public Policy’. Her specific goal is to study the direction of citizen participation policy in the process of accepting and developing science and technology, to democratically draw public consensus and minimize social confusion. Among various fields of science and technology, she is particularly interested in biotechnology and healthcare, which is irreversible and directly related to human life.
Hyunju Lee is a senior majoring in the college of pharmacy at Seoul National University. She is interested in pharmacogenomics, which is the study of how DNA affects the way patients respond to drugs. She thinks this field is growing very quickly and improved understanding of patient’s gene related to drug metabolism can optimize medical treatment to each person. In addition, she is interested in drug discovery using natural products. Through this program, she wants to understand what kind of AI and biotechnologies can be used in pharmacogenomics and pharmaceutics.
Hyunsoo Kim is a junior majoring in oriental painting, industrial design, and economics. She makes artworks based on studying human beings, since her key word of artwork is ‘HUMAN MIMICRY’. human mimicry means getting motivation from components of human, such as structural things like bones and muscles or abstract things like emotions or relationship. Every element of human can be subject of human-mimicry art. Hyunsoo is trying to translate all human world, structure, and culture to her own visual language and create her own world.
Jaehyeong Woo: Senior, undergraduate, department of philosophy, college of humanities. Majoring in philosophy, minoring in political science. Interested in political philosophy and human rights theory, focusing on the theories of John Rawls and Amartya Sen. Recently conducted research on global justice problems in the distribution of covid-19 vaccine and Rawls’s idea of intergeneration justice. Planning to gain insights, especially into the relationship between the technological innovation and global justice through this program.
Jeongin Park: I am sophomore double majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics. I am interested a lot in AI and machine learning, along with how the technologies are utilized in business. Through this program, I want to have chance to think about the justice and ethical parts regarding technology and innovation. Since I want to contribute myself to the development of technologies, it would be very important to have appropriate criterion on these fields. Thus, by listening to diverse lecturers, professors and students, sharing my opinion and having discussion, I want to learn them.
Jiyoon Baek: I am a senior majoring in business administration at Seoul National University. I’m interested in social standards for justice. In terms of business, it seems difficult to deal with justice among many stakeholders. In addition, nowadays, exisiting legal systems become inappropriate due to the development of science and technology. So I would like to discuss what justice is and how the legal standards should change in the age of innovation in this program.
Jun Kim is a sophomore in the College of Liberal Studies at Seoul National University. He majors in Business and Organizational Behavior. He has designed his major ‘Organizational Behavior’ since his interest is how people behave within an organization based on its characteristics. To make his goal, He craves to study the value of an innovative leader and the way of aligning and driving the vision of the organization with its members.
Minjoo Lee is a junior majoring in English language and literature at Seoul National University. She is also pursuing a double-major in business administration and a minor in French literature. Her main interests lie in how personal dramas expand to universal matters and vice versa, more specifically in terms of loss and romance in immigrant/diaspora literature. Her focus is on 20th century American novels, especially those by Asian-American authors. Fascinated by the effects of globalization and cosmopolitanism on human connections in literature, she is looking to better understand the fast-paced, ever-changing dynamics of technology and its social, legal, cultural and personal implications.
Minwoo Lee: I am a senior majoring in Computer Science at Seoul National University. I’m interested in artificial intelligence and the many changes it will bring to society. For example, as AI advances, demand for humans in the industrial sector will decline, and jobs will naturally decrease. In other words, technology created to help humans can have an adverse effect on humans contradictively. So I would like to discuss the future of AI and direction in which computer engineers and society should proceed in the rapid development of artificial intelligence.
Seoyoung Lim is a sophomore majoring in mechanical engineering & System Semiconductor Engineering for AI at Seoul National University. She is interested in various social problems that exist behind the fast-developing technology and in social discourse on technology such as AI’s rights, ethical issue. Especially, her field of interest is people who are alienated from technology, social inequality caused by technology. Seoyoung is looking for a map to lead her on the path to developing rightous scientific technology.
Suchang Song is a sophomore majoring in applied biology and chemistry, chemistry, and mathematical science. He is studying various disciplines such as chemistry, biology, and mathematical science to effectively treat, diagnose, and analyze diseases occurring in humans by developing an integrated perspective on problems. With the innovation and development of technology, he is also interested in combining medical care and AI.
Suhyun Hur: I’m Suhyun Hur is senior majoring in Computer Science & Engineering and double majoring in Business Administration at Seoul National University. I performed several internship as a web developer, and is now interested in social venture that can solve social problems. I hope to solve problems using AI, and as ChatGPT is performing extremely well, I wonder what would be the next AI program that would surprise the world. Also, as AI programs produce a lot of CO2, I wish to find ways that would less pollute our environment.
Suh Woo Kim is a senior student majoring in fashion design, textiles, and merchandising at Seoul National University. She is especially interested in programs like 3D CLO, CAD, and virtual wear in VR, believing that these technologies are important for sustainable fashion and innovation in the production process. Knowing that these innovations are mainly led by headquarters in the US, she wants to explore how innovation is being introduced to successful IT companies in the US and how social justice is being considered in the process.
Sumin Kim: I major in sociology and I am interested in the social issues related with the development of science and technology. The problem of racial discrimination, for instance, might have changed from something macroscopic to something micro, and in this change the advance and development of bioscience seems to have a great influence. Besides this, I also try to understand the relationship between the social or political power and the sicentific knowledge.
Yiji Kim is a freshman in College of Medicine, and currently in premedicine course. Her main interest is in epidemiology and global health, especially in inequity of health and social epidemiology. Thus, she is also interested in social justice issues and the emerging changes in medicine by Artificial Intelligence. She would like to discuss about how should we handle this upcoming change, also known as the 4th industrial revolution, especially in medical field. Plus, she would like to learn more about the AI itself, and wish to get a clue about how she should be prepared as a future doctor who isn’t dominated by the AI but in control of it. In addition, she is also interested in Art itself so she is also looking forward to learn about Innovation and Art.