Hi, I'm Will, a PhD student in Philosophy at Sogang University. I work on the early history of Korean Daoism and how it became entangled with indigenous religious practices.

Most of my research revolves around Yi Gyubo, a 12th-century Korean poet-philosopher, and has taken me from Seoul to Rome, Hong Kong, and Taipei. Beyond that, I'm drawn to questions of religious syncretism, East Asian aesthetics, and Confucian ethics, especially the ways philosophical traditions find expression through art, ritual, and material culture.