Staff & Researchers

Dr Chung-soo Park, Advisory board member of Korea-Central Asia Cooperation Forum Under South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs 

Publications

• East Asian Territorial Disputes and International Cooperation (Co-author, 2014)
• 21st Century North Korea and Russia-mythology, anecdotes, and evolution (2012, elected to excellent works)
• Human Resources Development in G-20 Countries (Co-author, 2010)
• Russia and Korea - Finding the Memory of the Lost Hundred Years (2001)

Dr Haisuk Kim, Academic & Research Assistant for Korean Studies

Publications

Journal Articles

• Comparative analysis of scientific communication skills between Korean and Australian university students (2024)
• Analysis of light-related visual images presented in elementary school science textbooks in Korea, the United States and Japan (2023)
• Japanese surveillance in colonial Korea: analysis of Japanese language textbooks for Korean students during the colonial era (2023)
• The construction of different educational ideologies for Korean students during the Japanese colonial era (2021)
• Japanese language textbooks used in Korea and Japan during the period of Japanese colonial rule – using comparative analysis between Kokugotokuhon and Shougakutokuhon (2017)

Conference proceedings

• Labor and national ideology in Japanese language textbooks during the Japanese colonial period (2025)
• Immigrant identity through stories and imagery in Australian and NZ children's books (2025)
• Voices from Australian Families of Unsung Heroes in the Korean War (2022)
• Japanese surveillance of Korean society (2021)
• Japanese language textbooks used in Korea and Japan during the period of Japanese colonial rule (2017)

Theses

• A critical discourse analysis of Japanese language textbooks written for Korean primary students during the colonial era (1910-1945) – PhD Thesis
• Japanese imperial influences on Korean primary language textbooks written in Japanese from 1910 to 1945 – Honours Thesis

Dr Rihua Yin

Publications

Journal Articles

• Languages put restrictions on large sonority distances (2023)
• Frequent violations of the sonority sequencing principle in hundreds of languages: how often and by which sequences? (2023)
• Supplementary Materials: Frequent violations of the sonority sequencing principle in hundreds of languages: how often and by which sequences? (2022)
• A cognitive semantic approach to the meaning extensions of the skin-sense adjectives in Chinese and English [Chinese] (2016)

Theses

• A comparative study on polysemy “Hand” idioms in Chinese and English: A cognitive linguistic approach (2013) – Master’s thesis

Conference Proceedings

• Sonority-driven morpho-phonological alternations in hetero syllabic consonant clusters in Korean: A preliminary descriptive study (2023)

Dr Ki Young Choi, Teaching Associate & Research Assistant for Korean Studies

Publications

Journal Articles

• A critical analysis of Korean culture represented in the Korean language textbooks developed in Thailand (2024)
• A critical analysis of cultural representation in the Korean language textbooks published in Korea and used in Thailand (under review)

Theses

• A critical analysis of Korean textbooks used by Thai university students (2023) – PhD Dissertation
• A Study on Korean interrogatives and infinitives for teaching Korean as a foreign language (의문사와 부정사에 관한 한국어 교육학적 연구) (2012) – Master’s thesis
• A critical analysis of Korean textbooks used by Thai university students (2023) – PhD Dissertation

Book Publications

• The nation-founding myths of Korea (ตำ นำนเทพเจ้ำเกำหลี (เรื่องเล่ำกำรก ำเนิดประเทศ),
  한국의 건국 신화 이야기) (2017)
• Basic Korean for communication (ภำษำเกำหลีเพื่อกำรสื่อสำรเบือ้ งต้น),
  의사소통을 위한 기초 한국어) (2017)
• Basic Korean grammar (ไวยำกรณ์ภำษำเกำหลีหลัก) (2015)

Conference Proceedings

• A comparative analysis of Korean cultures represented in Korean textbooks in Thailand (2023)
• A study on teaching method of Chinese characters for university students who major Korean language in Thailand: Focusing on Chiang Rai Rajabhat University (2018)
• A study on Korean interrogatives and infinitives for teaching Korean as a foreign language (2017)

Dr Penny Bailey

Ms Haegyeong Hong, Academic & Research Assistant for Korean Studies

Publications

Conference Proceedings

• Cultural ideologies and values in North Korean English textbooks (2023)
• Dominant ideologies and values within the theme of environmental issues of English textbooks in South Korea: A Critical Discourse Analysis (2022)
• Critical Discourse Analysis of Cultural Values and Ideologies in English Textbooks in South Korea (2021)

Thesis

• Critical Discourse Analysis of cultural values and ideologies in English textbooks in South Korea (2021) – Honours Thesis

Ms Dabin Kang, Academic &  Research Assistant for Korean Studies

Publications

Journal Articles

• Environmental literacy in ethnic Korean textbooks in China (2023)
• The comparative analysis of treatment of environmental issues in three primary school textbooks for ethnic Koreans residing in China: Korean language, morality and rule of law, character and society (2022)

Conference Proceedings

• Environmental Literacy From the Moral Textbooks Used in Ethnic Korean Primary Schools in China (2023)
• Environmental issues in the ethnic Korean textbooks in China (2022)
• The Comparative Analysis of Green Ideologies in the three Chosunjok textbooks Series: Korean Language, Morality and Rule of Law, Character and Society (2021)

Mr Jung Soon Kim

Publications

Conference proceedings

• The language and identity influence of the Korean ethnic church on 1.5 and 2nd generation Koreans in Australia (2024)

Thesis

• The influence of ethnic Korean churches on heritage language and identity maintenance among 1.5 and 2nd generation Koreans in Brisbane (2025)

Ms Qunyi Wang, Research Assistant at the Korean Studies Centre

Publications

Journal Articles

• Chinese nationalism portrayed in textbooks designed for ethnic Korean students (2025)

• Portrayal of the national identity in Chinese language textbooks (2023)

Conference Proceedings

• Shaping minds: Cultural values, ideologies, and national identity in Chinese textbooks for ethnic Korean students (2025)
• Chinese nationalism in Chinese Korean language textbooks (2025)
• Cultural values and ideologies in Chinese language textbooks used by Ethnic Korean students (2023)