SHIN, DONGEUN

RESEARCH INTEREST

• State–Society Relations; Memory Politics; Politics of Death and Mourning; Political Agency; Gender; Inter-Korean Relations; Refugees and Migration

EDUCATION

• Feb. 2025 | Ph.D. in Political Science, Yonsei University, South Korea 

Doctoral Dissertation: The Politics of Death: Performances of the state, memory, and the national in South Korea 

• Feb. 2019 | M.A. in Political Science, Yonsei University

Master's Thesis: A Study on the Formation of the Korean National Cemeteries: Focusing on the Renegotiations Between the State and Society

• Feb. 2015 | B.A. in International Relations, Yonsei University 

• Dec. 2014 | Exchange Student, ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania (One-Year Program)

RESEARCH∙WORK EXPERIENCE

• 2025 – Present | Senior Researcher, Kangwon Institute for Unification Studies, Kangwon National University 

• 2023 - 2024 | Researcher, Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies

• 2021 - 2024 | Administrative Secretary, The Korean Society for Political Thought

• Spring 2019 | Editorial Assistant, Journal of Korean Unification Studies (KCI-Accredited Journal) 

• 2016 - 2019 | Associate Researcher, Yonsei Institute for North Korean Studies

• 2016 - 2017 | Research Assistant, Institute of State Governance Studies, Yonsei University

PUBLICATIONS

• Shin, Dongeun. Forthcoming (June 2026). "Between Violence and Mourning: The Politics of State Commemoration in the Jeju April 3 Incident." Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, 31(2), 1–21.

• Park, Sanghoon, Young Hoon Song, and Dongeun Shin. 2025. "Multidimensional Boundaries of Perception toward Refugees as Outgroup in South Korea." Journal of Future Politics, 15(2), 163-186.

• Shin, Dongeun, and Seoyoung Choi. 2025. "Same Language, Different Voices: Discrimination Experiences of Marriage Migrant Women at the Intersection of Korean Language Proficiency and Income Level." Discourse 201, 28(2). 171-208. 

• Shin, Dongeun. 2020. “Boundaries of the Korean National Cemetery and the Politics of Memory.” Culture and Politics. 7(2). 101-131.

• Kim, Hyeonjun, Dongeun Shin, and Hwanbi Lee. 2018. “Future for All of Us?: The 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games and the Cultural Manifestation of the State.” Culture and Politics. 5(4). 153-199.

WORK in PROGRESS

• Shin, Dongeun. "From War Widows to Admirable Mothers: Gendered National Mourning and Structured Agency in South Korea." Under review [in English]

• "Education Beyond Aid: Why Rohingya Refugee Teachers Sustain Community-Led Schools in Cox's Bazar?" In preparation

• "War Memory and Spatial Politics in the Inter-Korean Borderlands." In preparation

• "The Politics of Voluntary Repatriation: North Korean Prisoners of War in the Russia–Ukraine War." Working paper

• Shin, Dongeun. "Who Becomes a Local Councilor? Local Politics in Gangwon Province." Working paper

• Shin, Dongeun. "From the Blue House to the Road to the National Cemetery: Presidential Death and National Mourning in South Korea." Working paper

• Shin, Dongeun. "Who Would Remember the Death of North Korean Soldiers: The Russia–Ukraine War and Boundaries of the International."  Working paper [in English]

RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Mar. - Aug. 2025 | 2024/25 KOICA Civil Society Partnership Incubating Program: Local Field Research in Bangladesh (PI: Young Hoon Song), "Teacher Education in the Rohingya Refugee Camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: Current Conditions and Strategies for Strengthening Teacher Capacity."

• Jun. 2024 - May 2025 | PI, Humanities and Social Sciences Academic Research Professor Type B, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), "Rituals Memorizing Presidents’ Death and Being the South Korean: Focusing on Rhee Syngman, Park Chung-hee, and Roh Moohyun's Funerals"

• Sep. 2023 - Aug. 2024 | PI, Humanities and Social Sciences Academic Research Professor Type B, NRF, "The Making of the South Korean by Deaths"

• Sep. 2022 - Aug. 2023 | PI, Humanities and Social Sciences Academic Research Professor Type B, NRF, "Lived Citizenship of Married Migrant Women in South Korea: The Interaction Effect of Birth-Nation and Class-Consciousness"

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Scheduled, Fall 2026. On Civic Education, Kangwon National University (KNU)

• Scheduled, Fall 2026. Contemporary Political Theory, KNU

• Spring 2026. Understanding of Contemporary Politics, KNU

• Spring 2026. On National Unification Education, KNU

• Spring 2026. Division and Unification of Korea, KNU

• Fall 2025. Politics and Power in Films, KNU

• Fall 2025. Understanding of Contemporary Politics, KNU

INVITED LECTURE & COLLOQUIUM

• "Beyond the Border: Peace, Unification, and Global Leadership," 2026 Kangwon National University Summer Program, Kangwon National University, 3rd August 2026 (scheduled). [in English]

• "Death and Memory: Mourning, Ethics, and Absence," Critical Approaches to Political Science (graduate course), Yonsei University, 27th October 2025 [in English]

• "The Politics of Death: Commemoration and Performative Memory in the Nation-State," Weekly Colloquium, Seogang University, Critical Global Studies Institute, 14th April 2025 

CONFERENCES

• Jun. 2026 | Co-Presenter, "North Korean Prisoners of War and the Crisis of the Liberal International Order," Annual Conference of the Korean Association of International Studies (KAIS).

• Dec. 2025 | Co-Presenter, "Refugee Education Gaps and the Dilemmas Facing Ethnic Minorities," Annual Conference of the Korean Association of International Studies (KAIS). 

• Nov. 2025 | Presenter, "War Memory and the Path to Peace in the Inter-Korean Borderlands," Chungnam National University Institute for Unification Studies & Kangwon National University Institute for Gangwon Unification Studies. 

• Jul. 2025 | Presenter, "Memorizing Unmemorable Deaths in the Jeju April 3rd Uprising," KNU International Conference: "From Research to Publication: Remapping Conversations in Social Sciences from East Asia and Beyond." [in English]

• Jul. 2025 | Presenter, "Reframing Nationalist Manhood through Korean War Widows," International Conference, International Political Science Association (IPSA) & Korean Political Science Association (KPSA). [in English]

• May 2025 | Co-Presenter, "Same Language, Different Voices: Discrimination Experiences of Marriage Migrant Women at the Intersection of Korean Language Proficiency and Income Level," Cybercommunication Academic Society, Spring Annual Conference.

• Apr. 2025 | Presenter, "The Politics of Death: Commemoration and Performative Memory in the Nation-State," Weekly Colloquium, Seogang University, Critical Global Studies Institute.

• Feb. 2025 | Presenter, "The State’s Anxiety in the Politics of Death," KNU International Conference: “Meth-theoretical Knowledge Cultivation in International Relations Studies and Beyond,” Department of Political Science at Kangwon National University, Kangwon Institute for Unification Studies, Institute of Social Sciences, The Korean Association of Socio-Historical Studies. [in English]

• Aug. 2024 | Presenter, "The Making of South Korean by Deaths: State Funerals, War Widows, and Unmemorable Deaths," Uji Workshop, Critical Approaches to Political Science Lab, Department of Political Science, Yonsei University & Ryukoku University Center for World Buddhist Cultures (RCWBC) Applied Research Division. [in English]

• Jul. 2023 | Presenter, "The Nationalist Manhood and War Widows in the National Cemetery," The World Congress for Korean Politics and Society, The Korean Political Science Association (KPSA), Yonsei University. [in English]

• Jan. 2023 | Presenter, "Reframing Nationalist Manhood in the National Cemetery, South Korea," Collaboration Workshop, Global Affairs Research Centre, Ryukoku University & Critical Approaches to Political Science Lab, Department of Political Science, Yonsei University. [in English]

• Jan. 2023 | Presenter, "Reframing Nationalist Manhood in the National Cemetery," The 35th Sogang-EWHA-Yonsei University Memory Research Seminar. 

• Apr. 2022 | Presenter, "Citizenship Practices of Korean Chinese Married Migrant Women in South Korea: Moderating Effects of Country of Origin in the Relationship Between Social Status and Life Satisfaction," The 79th Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference. 

• Jun. 2021 | Co-Presenter, "Two Nationalisms in Postcolonial Japan." Summer Conference, The Korean Association of International Studies. 

• Nov. 2020 | Presenter, "Japanese Western National Identity and National Cemetery: Threat to Colonial Ruling Memories." International Conference on Politics and International Studies (ICPIS), Universiti Malaysia Sabah & University of Malaya. [in English]

• Aug. 2020 | Debater, "Risk and Opportunity of National Cemetery." Policy Debate: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow of Korean National Cemetery, co-hosted by Citizen's Solidarity for Human Rights and Min Hyeong-bae's National Assembly Office. 

• Aug. 2020 | Presenter, "Reproduction of Mainstream Discourse in Online Civil Society: Focusing on the Tendency of Protestants to Oppose the Anti-Discrimination Law. "Summer Conference, Korean Association of Party Studies. 

• Dec. 2019 | Presenter, "A Comparative Study on the Formation Process of Antithesis of National Cemetery in Korea, the United States, and Japan: Focusing on Negotiations between the State and Society." Annual Conference, The Korean Association of International Studies (KAIS). 

• Jun. 2017 | Presenter, "The North Korean Regime and Its Power-sharing in Authoritarian Rule." Summer Conference, The Korean Association of International Studies (KAIS).

SCHOLARSHIP

• Sep. 2020 - Feb. 2022 | Yonsei BK21+ Merit Scholarship, BrainKorea21, The Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea

AWARDS AND CERTIFICATIONS

• 2018 Team Award of Best Paper, Academic Support Program Seminar by Yonsei University Graduate Student Association 

Title: “Future for All of Us? : 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Winter Game and the Cultural Manifestation of the State .” Yonsei Haksul, 68.

• 2021 KOSSDA Autumn  Program (4 weeks)

Completed instruction for the following course: Regression Advanced, Oral History

• 2020 BK21 Plus Summer School, Social Science Research Methods 

Completed instruction for the following course: R Basic and Text-mining

• 2018 Winter, Data Analysis Workshop (15 hours) 

Completed instruction for the following course: R Basic

Updated: 27 Jun. 2026