Modern Korean History, Cultural/Intellectual History
Sung Eun is a Ph.D. student in Modern Korean History. He received his M.A. in East Asian Regional Studies from Columbia University, and his B.A. in Asian Studies and Political Science from Vassar College. His main research focuses on the development of cultural and intellectual history of North Korea through a comprehensive analysis of written works related to it’s history, literature, film, visual art and other media. More recently, his interests include tracing the history of the Korean Augmentation Troops to the U.S. Army (KATUSAs), to delineate the complexities of modern Korean society embodied in the experiences and depictions of the KATUSAs.
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