Invited Lectures and Public Scholarship

Daegu Textile Museum, Daegu, South Korea. Fashion Humanity Lecture Series.
“패션과 인간, 한국문화 (Fashion and Human: Korean Culture).” November 13, 2025.
“패션과 박물관 (Fashion and Museums).” November 20, 2025.

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
“A private tour of the fashion and beauty section: Hallyu, The Korean Wave.” September 11, 2024.

“Koreanness of Korean Dress: Through the Lens of Outsiders.” December 9, 2017.
“Korean Traditional Clothing: Talk and Demonstration.” September 20, 2015.
“Gorgeous Hanbok.” August 22, 2014.
“Structure, Colors, and Symbolism of Korean Bridal Robes: Hwarot and Wonsam.” October 18, 2013.

V&A Academy, London. Course: Hallyu: The Story of Korean Pop Culture.
“Fashioning Hanbok through Hallyu.” May 16, 2023.

de Young Museum, San Francisco. Textile Art Council Lecture.
“The Rise of Fashion Museology: Korean Fashion Exhibitions 2013-2023.” February, 25, 2023.

“Is Traditional Dress Modern?: Hanbok in a Greater Cultural Context.” January 19, 2019.

Yeol Korean Heritage Preservation Society & Seoul Museum of History, Seoul, South Korea. SEMU–YÉOL Lecture Series.
“Korean Fashion Exhibitions in Global Venues.” December 27, 2022.

“Manifestation of Collective Identity: Traditional Korean Dress, Hanbok.” June 3, 2019.

The Korea Society, New York.
“Hanbok: The Celebration.” September 14, 2022. (Online)
“Hanbok: Gender, Class, and Modernity.” July 21, 2022. (Online)
“Hanbok: A New Lexicon of World Fashion—Men’s Hanbok.” April 7, 2022. (Online)
“Hanbok: A New Lexicon of World Fashion—Women’s Hanbok.” February 17, 2022. (Online)
“A Sacred Emblem: Trefoil in Early Korean Metalwork and Beyond.” October 8, 2020. (Online)

The Korean Society of Costume, Seoul, South Korea. Fashion Curatorship Program.
“최근 미국 박물관의 패션 전시 동향 (Fashion Exhibitions in the United States).” August 6, 2022.
“한복과 한국복식의 사전적 정의 (A Critical Review of the Dictionary Definition of Hanbok and Korean Dress).” February 5, 2022.
“복식사 및 한국복식사의 글로벌 동향 (Global Trends in Dress History: Research, Education, Career, and Network).” August 14, 2021.

Korean Cultural Society of Boston. Korean Heritage Webinar Series.
“Hanbok: Dress of Korean Identity.” November 4, 2021. (Online)

University of British Columbia, Canada. Center for Korean Research.
“Dress/Fashion History of Korea as a Field of Study.” February 26, 2021. (Online)

University of Southern California Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA.
“The Proper Way to Dress Up Hanbok.” December 9, 2018.

Costume Society of America, Western Region. Program at San Francisco State University Library.
“Hanbok in a Greater Asian Cultural Context.” December 1, 2018.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts, California.
“Fashion and Textile Art of Korea: The Dynamism of Interrelationships.” August 6, 2017.

Seoul National University Museum, Seoul, South Korea. Public Lecture Series.
“Aesthetics of Hanbok Reflected in the Works of Carolina Herrera, Karl Lagerfeld, and Jean Paul Gaultier and the Discourse of Cultural Appropriation.” November 23, 2016.

Asian Art Society of the Monterey Peninsula, Carmel, CA.
“The Unique Beauty of Hanbok.” September 9, 2014.

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
“History and Philosophy of Korean Costume: Design, Structure, Rank, and Fashion.” May 16 & 19, 2013.