Teaching
Dr Yongchul Lee is an enthusiastic teacher at the university level. Since 2021, he has taught about 20 subjects at six universities, including Seoul National University. His passion and ability were recognised by winning the Best Teaching Award in 2022.
Major Issues in Global Affairs
KyungHeeUniversity
The module aims to provide an overview of the field of International Relations/International Politics including its historical context. The module aims to offer students the opportunity to explore different traditions of thought in the field of International Relations. The module aims to develop students skills in using theory, and the ability to engage in critical analysis of core concepts of relevance for the study of international relations
Modern History of East Asia
KyungHeeUniversity
This module is going to explore the answer of "What Modern is", Most of epistemology of IR but politics has been understood by the Western perspective only, but history is not establish only by the West but also others, Asia, America, Africa. Thus this module attempts to reconstruct the history of East Asia by themselves.
Introduction of International Politics
Seoul National University
This course examines the state and dynamics of international politics. It will place special focus on the history and future direction of Korean foreign policy and the ways international politics has challenged the Korean Peninsula.
Topics in International Relations
KyungHeeUniversity
The module offers an overview of the core theoretical traditions and debates of controversial topics within International Relations. In exploring these traditions and debates, the module also offers the opportunity to distinguish different methodological approaches in International Relations. The module addresses core concepts of relevance in the field. Indicative concepts include, power, sovereignty, the international system, the international society, the state, and norms. The module includes the opportunity to engage in various critiques of how international relations is theorised and how we interpret controversial topics
Introduction of IR
Sookmyung Women's University
Demonstrate understanding of the major theories, concepts and debates of the discipline of International Relations and appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches. Demonstrate appropriate cognitive, communicative and transferable skills, including ability to evaluate advanced conceptsand theories, to employ primary and secondary sources, to present reasoned and effective arguments in written and oral form, to pursue independent learning and to show critical judgement.
History of IR Theory
Hanshin University
The module offers an overview of the mainstream theoretical traditions and alternative theories, such as Marxism, Neo-Gramscianism, Critical Constructivism, English School theory and post-colonialism. At the same time, historical background will be examined with theories, and discuss it from post-colonial perspective.
Political Economy of East Asia
Sungshin Women's University
This course aims to provide a comparative examination of the political and economic systems, structures, and capitalist development of the East Asian region and its countries. To achieve this goal, the course is organised into three broad frameworks. 1) A historical overview of the existence of international political and economic systems in East Asia as distinct from those in the West, 2) We will review the theories of international political economy as a framework for analysing them. 3) Finally, we will examine the case studies in detail. We will discuss the similarities and differences between East Asian regional economic integration and the development of East Asian countries such as Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore.
Emerging Technology in International Society
Hanshin University
The aim of this course is to examine politics and international affairs in the context of the development of science and technology.
To this end, we will examine international politics in the context of the development of capitalism and the development of science and technology, its impact and significance on the international community.
In particular, we will look at the international political issues that have been brought about by the development of science and technology and critically examine them.
For example, digital democracy, surveillance based on facial recognition technology, cyber warfare, technological hegemony, new forms of warfare and changing ethics, climate crisis and planetary politics, etc.
Climate crisis and planetary politics will be the main focus of the course.
Understanding of Modern International Politics
Hanshin University
This course aims to provide students with a basic understanding of the structure and dynamics of contemporary international politics by examining how international relations have been shaped since 1945 and how they are changing in the 21st century. Furthermore, the course examines the current status of international organisations and global issues that require global cooperation, such as peace, environment, human rights, development, migration, and culture.
Intensive Seminar for International Studies
Sookmyung Women's University
This course is an intensive seminar to develop an understanding of international studies theory for doctoral research. It will be accompanied by lectures and discussions based on a curriculum that builds on the students' basic understanding of international studies and deepens this understanding.
History of East Asia
Sookmyung Women's University
This course traces the ways in which East Asian international order, and hence East Asian international society, has been constructed and constructed through the history of East Asia as distinct from the West. East Asia has been superficially objectified and objectified as an object distinct from the West. For example, the sovereign state system of the West has been perceived as a process of ‘civilisation’ that was spread, accepted and advanced by ‘barbaric’ East Asia, which was ‘enlightened’ by ‘civilisation’. However, East Asia has developed and progressed into a regional international community by establishing a regional international order in East Asia that is distinct from the West by interrelating with the West externally and with countries in the region internally. The historical process from the establishment of the Chinese system, the acceptance of the sovereign state system, and the East Asian Cold War order to the post-Cold War and modern complex regional order is a testament to this. This course therefore seeks to trace the rise of a subjective East Asia, one that is shaped by postcolonial/non-Western experiences, rather than one that conforms to the West. This is an important first step towards understanding the new Asia-Pacific and international political order that we need in the post-pandemic context of the rapid rise of China and East Asia in an uncertain international system. By reinterpreting the history of East Asia through a postcolonial/non-Western lens to move away from a Western-centric understanding of East Asia, this course aims to understand the regional international community as distinct from the European international community as we understand it. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
History & Theory of International Relations
Hanshin University
This course focuses on a critical understanding of the major theories of international relations, and their limitations in relation to the major issues in contemporary international politics. We will also examine the history of international relations. This course aims to critically examine the formation of the modern international order.
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