Book projects in progress

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

Papers submitted

• (co-authored) A comparative, digital approach to modern East Asian newspapers

• A nuclear history of South Korea

• A decolonial history of North Korea

• A social history of North Korea

• A business history of North Korea

• A petroleum history of modern Korea

• (co-authored) A social history of life insurance in colonial Korea

Papers in progress or planning

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

• (co-authored) A data-driven analysis of public knowledge on the Axis of Evil in OpenAlex

• "Planned Indenture: Rethinking Post-1945 Slavery and Korean Agency at the Soviet Pacific North"

• "‘Attics Won’t Save Us from Nuclear Bombs’: Reconstructing Voices of Nonconformity in North Korean Society in 1963"

• (co-authored) A digital history of South Korea's National Assembly discourse on the United States 

• "Balancing between Expenditure and Expertise: North Korea’s Measured Agricultural Globalisation"

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

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 (forthcoming).

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 (linked to the KCI 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 (linked to the KCI 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 (linked to the DBpia viewer 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 [Korean Journal for the History of Science] 44, no. 2 (2022): 297–319. doi: 10.36092/KJHS.2022.44.2.297 (linked to the KCI page).