Biography
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Dr. Park acquired Ph.D. degree at Columbia University in the City of New York, after obtaining B.A. and M.A. at the political science department at Seoul National University. Before joining a faculty at Seoul National University in 2004, he was an assistant professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Japan between 1999 and 2002 and the Institute for Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS) between 2002 and 2004. He was a visiting professor at Columbia University, University of Tokyo, Keio University, and Nankai University in China. In 2022, he served as a senior staff at the Subcommittee on Foreign Relations and Security of the Presidential Transition Committee.
In his personal capacity, Dr. Park worked as a board member at several thinktanks, including Asan Institute for Policy Studies, Sejong Institute, East Asia Foundation, and Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. He also served as a non-resident senior research fellow at the Atlantic Council. For ten years between 2012 and 2021, he wrote a column at Tokyo Shimbun. He has written a number of columns at Chosun Ilbo, Joongang Ilbo, Munhwa Ilbo, Maeil Business Newspaper, and the Seoul Newspaper.
Dr. Park wrote a number of books and articles in Korean, English, and Japanese, including a book titled “LDP Politics and the Transformation of Postwar Japanese Regime(Seoul National University Press, 2011).” Park Cheol Hee, Ph.D.