Publications
I have authored research papers that are published in both Korean and English. My primary research domains encompass digital humanities and computational social science, with a particular emphasis on the analysis of expansive multilingual corpora, notably in Korean and English. You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.
Published in Humanities Contents, 2024
This study examines the narrative characteristics and cultural-historical significance of “Meongteongguri”, Korea’s first long-running comic series published in the Chosun Ilbo from 1924 to 1933. The research team utilized deep learning technology to accurately identify bibliographic information and collect 743 episodes of the series.
Published in The Korean Journal of Animation, 2024
This study analyzes the expansion and diversification of webtoon-related research in the Korean academic field, focusing on articles published in Korea Citation Index (KCI) journals from 2003 to 2023. Employing a digital humanities approach, we collected and preprocessed bibliographic information from 670 papers and conducted a structural topic modeling analysis.
Published in Digital+Humanities, 2024
This paper proposes the concept of ‘smart big data’ in Digital Humanities, combining the scale of big data with qualitative excellence, as a response to the growing but quality-limited use of big data in Korean DH research. It also emphasizes the importance of international DH experience and the need for context-specific adaptations in Korean humanities.
Published in Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2024
We applied our YOLOv5_FPC model to the Chosun Ilbo News Library archive (1920–1940) for automatic FPC data mining, spanning 47,777 JPG image files. We identified 1040 FPC objects within 1035 files, which include previously undiscovered FPCs by previous researchers.
Published in Asian Journal of Communication, 2024
Our research bridges this gap by investigating the role of online platforms in shaping public historical debates. We compare the portrayals of Balhae, an ancient kingdom with contested contexts between the two nations.
Published in Energy Policy, 2024
Utilizing advanced machine learning approaches, we examined the media’s evaluation of energy transition, users’ emotions regarding it, and the influence of various features on commenters’ emotions and elaborations in comments.
Published in Society and Theory, 2023
This study aimed to examine the role of Michel Foucault’s writings in modern Korean literary research by tracing the changes in citation patterns of his work in the Korean academic field of modern literature since the late 2000s.
Published in Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
The aim of this study was to develop and validate a large Korean sentence set with varying degrees of semantic predictability that can be used for testing speech recognition and lexical processing.
Published in Foreign Policy Analysis, 2023
This study aimed to look at how the Chinese soft power changed throughout the pandemic using English news articles that covered China. The research took a data science approach to investigate the contents of articles using machine-learning-based sentiment analysis and Dirichlet-Multinomial Regression (DMR) analysis.
Published in The Journal of Korean Fiction Research, 2023
This paper selects 844,251 regular articles from the Chosun Ilbo data, published from the first issue in 1920 to the last issue in 1940, and uses dynamic word embedding and trend tests to illustrate the changes in the meaning of national discourse-related vocabulary (‘minjok’, ‘gungmin’, and ‘gukga’) over time.
Published in Korean Journal of Sociology, 2023
How does the data science-driven sociology of knowledge work? What are the strengths and limitations of the computational approach in the sociology of knowledge, and what kinds of methodological challenges exist?
Published in Korean Language and Literature in International Context, 2023
This thesis aims to examine citation practices and the use of Kim Yunsik’s texts in theses on modern literature. The thesis addresses three key concerns: which of his writings were most frequently referenced, who most frequently cited his writings, and how were his works cited.
Published in Bakmunsa, 2023
The book comprises a compilation of essays authored by 13 researchers, along by their corresponding debates organized into six thematic categories. It can be asserted without hyperbole that this publication serves as a comprehensive and foundational resource for delving into the realm of digital Korean literature.
Published in Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, 2022
We conducted a comparative study with North America to comparatively analyze how startup innovation in East Asia appeared. This study used a set of computer analysis methods including Dirichlet-multinomial regression Topic Model and Topic network analysis.
Published in Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy, 2022
The current study investigated media coverage regarding conflicts related to the 4th Industrial Revolution from 2016 to 2020 in the Republic of Korea, applying text-mining techniques.
Published in Doctoral dissertation, Sungkyunkwan University, 2022
This study analyzes the bibliographic information of around 250,000 KCI humanities papers published between 2004 and 2019 in order to comprehend the knowledge structure of Korean humanities over the previous 15 years. Bibliographic information used in the analysis includes text information such as the thesis’s title, abstract, and keywords, citation information such as the number of citations and references, and demographic information such as the gender, age, and academic institution of the researcher who wrote the thesis.
Published in CONCEPT AND COMMUNICATION, 2021
The proposed research in conceptual history will employ bibliographic information and meta-bibliometrics as the primary data sources and approaches.
Published in DAEDONG MUNHWA YEON'GU, 2021
Although it has taken quite a long time to discuss the Korean term ‘Uri’ until recent days, it is still in a stalemate without a clear explanation. Through applying quantitative research methodology so-called ‘Distant Reading’, this paper explores the new way to solve the problem.
Published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
This study collected and analyzed 58,061 international news items related to mask-wearing from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2020. The collected dataset was compared before and after the World Health Organization’s pandemic declaration by applying structural topic model analysis.
Published in Hanul Academy, 2021
This book is the result of a collaborative research project centered on the Korean Sociological Association to comprehensively explore various issues raised by the platform society.
Published in CITIES, 2021
This study introduces a novel approach to analyze diverse informal civic query data for a city and plan the city in a way that its residents want.
Published in Sanghur Hakbo: The Journal of Korean Modern Literature, 2020
These findings suggest that the academia of modern Korean literature began to fissure, thereby gaining differences and diversities.
Published in CONCEPT AND COMMUNICATION, 2019
In a quantitative analysis of correlations among a wide variety of academic and association publications between 1905 and 1910 (the modern enlightenment period), these two showed the greatest degree of similarity, with the sole exception of correlations among Japanese and Korean student magazines.
Published in Journal of Korean Modern Literature, 2017
This study analyzes the shifting aspects of critical language according to 3,057 criticism texts in three literature magazines (Changjakkwapipyong, Munhaktongne, and Munhakkwasahoe) from 1995 to 2015.
Published in The Journal of Modern Korean Literature, 2016
We statistically analyzed the influence of critics on the book’s sales using longitudinal data of book sales, bibliographies of the three major publishers, and the socio-demography of writers and critics.
Published in The Journal of Korean Fiction Research, 2016
Using descriptive and inferential network statistics, we found the evidence that there was a significant correlation between the literature activities and the social backgrounds of the novelists.
