He is an art critic and visiting professor at Yonsei University’s Graduate School of Communication, and holds a PhD from the University of Iowa, USA, with a “The origin of Korean Trauerspiel”. In 2015, he was awarded the inaugural SeMA-Hana Art Criticism Award, the first national art criticism award established by the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA). His recent publications include “The Blind Past and the Eternal Return of Global Civil War: Difference and Repetition in Omer Fasth and Lim Heung-soon,” Waves and Garage Sales (co-authored, Moonji Publishing, 2023), “Infrastructure Humanism: Caring for Nature, Technology, and the World After the Pandemic” (co-author, MMCA, 2022), “Art Museums and VR between Windows and Screens, Films and Architecture”, Hallyu-Technology-Culture (co-authored, KOFICE, 2022), ‘Replicants, Holograms, and the (Voice) of AI’ (co-author, KOFICE, 2022), and ‘A Deep Reading of Blade Runner’ (co-author, Psyche’s Forest, 2021).