Hi, I'm Will. I'm a PhD student in Philosophy at Sogang University, where I study the early history of Korean Daoism and its entanglement with indigenous religious practices.

My research centers on Yi Gyubo, a 12th-century Korean poet-philosopher, and has taken me from Seoul to Rome, Hong Kong, and Taipei. Broader projects extend into religious syncretism, East Asian aesthetics, and Confucian ethics — with a particular interest in how philosophical traditions are expressed through art, ritual, and material culture.

I live in Incheon with my wife, two sons, and dog.