Arts and Humanities Citation Index

Donghyun Woo, "Squid and Socialists: Power, Nature and the Unruly East Sea in North Korea, 1945–1964," Environment and History, 0 (online first, 2026). doi: 10.3828/whpeh.63861480345905.

Byungjun Kim, Jonghyun Jee, and Donghyun Woo (corresponding author), "Mapping the semantic transformations of major powers in Cold War East Asia: A Word Embedding approach using Chinese and Korean newspapers (1946–1995)," Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 41, no. 2 (2026). doi: 10.1093/llc/fqag003.

Donghyun Woo, "Catching Weasels in Silent Mountains: A Multispecies History of Hunting in North Korea from the 1940s to the 1960s," Acta Koreana, 28, no. 2 (2025): 51–68. doi: 10.18399/acta.2025.28.2.003. (KCI page; Project Muse page)

Donghyun Woo, "The Peaceful Origins of North Korea's Nuclear Programme in the Cold War Period, 1945–1965," The Historical Journal, 66, no. 2 (2023): 459–79. doi :10.1017/S0018246X22000140.

Korea Citation Index

Donghyun Woo, "Toward a Study of Nuclear History on the Korean Peninsula: Assessing the Current State of Research and Archival Resources" (in Korean), Yŏksa wa segye, 68 (2025): 241–72. doi: 10.17857/hw.2025.12.68.241. (DBpia page)

Kunha Kim and Donghyun Woo (corresponding author), "Measuring Equity in Early Joseon Military Service: A Digital Humanities Analysis Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Inequality Indicators" (in Korean), Yŏksa wa hyŏnshil, 137 (2025): 247–90. doi: 10.35865/YWH.2025.06.136.247. (DBpia page)

Donghyun Woo, "Constructing “People’s Science-Technology”: The Culture of Science and Technology in Early North Korea, 1945-1950," Han'guk kwahaksa hak'oeji, 44, no. 2 (2022): 297–319. doi: 10.36092/KJHS.2022.44.2.297. (KCI page)

Book projects in progress

• A North Korea-Soviet transactional history, 1945–1970

Papers submitted (In the field of history, the review process takes anywhere from a few months to several years.)

• A nuclear history of South Korea (under review)

• A social history of North Korea (under review)

• A petroleum history of modern Korea (under review)

• A mixed-method history of Hong Sa-ik (co-authored, under review)

• A North Korea-Soviet material history (under revision)

• A social history of colonial Korea (co-authored, under revision)

• LLM and North Korea (co-authored, submitted to ACL Rolling Review)

Papers in progress or planning

• A decolonial history of North Korea

• A social history of nonconformists in North Korea

• A labor history of North Korea in the Sea of Okhotsk

• An agricultural history of North Korea

• A science diplomacy history of North Korea

Data work in progress

• I have so far used materials from the following repositories: APRF, AVPRF, GARF, RGAE, RGASPI, RGANI, TsAMORF, TsGANTD SPb, Russian State Library, Russian National Library (Russia), NARA, Library of Congress, UCLA (US), National Institute of Korean History, National Archives of Korea (South Korea), and generously shared archives by my respected colleagues.

• Atomnaya energiya

• National Assembly (of the Republic of Korea) minutes big data

• Foreign Relations of the United States

• Korea Citation Index database

• OpenAlex