Modern Korean Literature · East Asian Intellectual History

Yongbeom Lee

이용범 · 李鎔範

Occupation

Name

  • Korean이용범
  • Sinograph李鎔範
  • EnglishYongbeom Lee

Positions

  • 2022.03–Full-time Researcher, Institute of Jeompiljae, Pusan National University
  • 2019.09–Lecturer, Sungkyunkwan University
  • 2025.03–Lecturer, Korea University (Sejong)

Research Interests

  • Intellectual history of East Asia, especially the formation of ‘national learning’
  • Korean epistemological perceptions of China
  • Colonial studies in an East Asian perspective
  • The ontology of the Korean language within the Sinographic Cosmopolis

Publications

Books

  • 2026A Century of Illusion and Hope: Commemorating the Centennial of KAPFed. Research Society of Lim Hwa, Somyung Pressco-author
  • 2025A History and Theory of Modern Korean Translated Literatureeds. Son Sung-jun, Ku In-mo and Hwang Ho-duk, Sungkyunkwan University Pressco-author · Outstanding Academic Book, National Academy of Sciences ROK (2025)
  • 2023The History and Academic Tradition of Sungkyunkwan UniversitySimsan Kim Chang-suk Research Society, Sungkyunkwan University Pressco-author
  • 2023Lives of Northeast Asiaed. Institute of Korea–China Relations, Wonkwang University, Kyungin Publishingco-author
  • 2019Studies in the Literature of Lim Hwa, vol. 6ed. Society for the Study of Lim Hwa’s Literature, Somyung Pressco-author
  • 2018Keijō Imperial University and the Study of Oriental Studieseds. Yun Hae-dong and Jung Jun-young, Sun-in Booksco-author

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • 2026“Kiho Heunghakhoe and the Restoration of the Korean Empire”The Korean Language and Literature 215, Society of Korean Language and Literature
  • 2026“Quantitative Basic Research on the Kiho Heunghakhoe-wolbo”Dongyang Hanmunhak Yeon’gu 74, Dongyang Literary Society of Korean Classics
  • 2025“Nationalist, Communist, and Japanese: Kim Tae-joon in the Kyŏngsŏng Com-Group Interrogation Records”Dongbang Hakchi 211, Institute of Korean Studies, Yonsei University
  • 2024“Kim Tae-joon and the People’s Front”Journal of Korean Literary History 86, Institute of Korean Literary History
  • 2024“Kangaku and the State: Colonial Collaboration between Korean and Japanese Traditional Sinologists”Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies 24(2), Academy of East Asian Studies
  • 2024“Quantitative Basic Research on the Seobukhakhoe-wolbo”Sanghur Hakbo: The Journal of Korean Modern Literature 72, Learned Society of Sanghur’s Literature
  • 2024“Language Policy in North and South Korean Academism during the Liberation Period”Cogito 103, Institute for Humanities, Pusan National University
  • 2023“Kim Tae-joon as a Historian: Another Possibility for Colonial Historiography”Dongbang Hakchi 205, Institute of Korean Studies, Yonsei University
  • 2023“From ‘Chosŏn’ to ‘Uri’: Reconsidering the Generational Divide among Keijō Imperial University Alumni”Chin-Tan Hakpo 141, The Chin-Tan Society
  • 2023“The Translation of Zhang Taiyan’s ‘Jufen jinhua lun’ in the Seobukhakhoe-wolbo”Gugje Eomun 99, International Association of Language and Literature
  • 2023“‘Lingua Academica’ and the Meaning of Academic Writing in Japanese in Colonial Korea”Journal of Korean Literary History 81, Institute of Korean Literary History
  • 2022“The References of A History of Korean Fiction (1930): Traditional Scholarship, Private Learned Societies, and ‘Chinese Literature’”Gubo Hakbo 32, Korean Association of Kubo Studies
  • 2022“The Sunflower Movement and Grand Narratives”Asian Cultural Studies 60, Asian Cultural Studies Research Institute, Gachon University
  • 2022“National Heritage and the Library: The Association of Korean Literature and Language (朝鮮語文學會) and Its Publishing Activities”Sanghur Hakbo 66, Learned Society of Sanghur’s Literature
  • 2022“The Location of ‘Colonial National Learning’: Wandering among National Literature, Korean Studies, Oriental Studies and Kangaku”Dongbang Hakchi 200, Institute of Korean Studies, Yonsei University
  • 2022“In the Name of World Literature and Proletarian Literature: The Reception of Lu Xun in Colonial Korea and the Place of ‘Chinese Literature’”Sanghur Hakbo 64, Learned Society of Sanghur’s Literature
  • 2021“Different Colours of Darkness: The East Asian Context of Lee Myeongseon’s Selected Zawen of Lu Xun”Dongbang Hakchi 196, Institute of Korean Studies, Yonsei University
  • 2020“When ‘National Learning’ Faces the World: A Critical Approach to Cho Tongil’s Trilogy on Medieval Literature”Sanghur Hakbo 60, Learned Society of Sanghur’s Literature
  • 2020“Beyond ‘Shina’ and ‘the Orient’, Ten Thousand Miles along the Changjiang: Posing the Question of Modern Korean Perceptions of China”Sanghur Hakbo 59, Learned Society of Sanghur’s Literature
  • 2020“Preliminary Research on E-sports in Northeast Asia, Part 1: The Downfall of Affect, Ten Years of Korean E-sports”Journal of Korea Game Society 20(2), Korea Game Society
  • 2020“The Intellectual Cooperation of Kim Tae-joon and Im Hwa”Gubo Hakbo 24, Korean Association of Kubo Studies
  • 2019“Kim Tae-joon as a Traditional Sinologist”Dongbang Hakchi 186, Institute of Korean Studies, Yonsei University
  • 2018“Lecturer Kim and Professor T: The Association of Korean Literature and Language and the Founding of Korean Literary Studies”Journal of Korean Literary History 68, Institute of Korean Literary History
  • 2016“The Problematic Nature of ‘Colonial National Learning’ and the Paradox of Its Totality”Journal of Korean Literary History 62, Institute of Korean Literary History
  • 2015“Rewriting the Early Career of Kim Tae-joon and New Contexts for ‘Korean Studies’”Journal of Korean Literary History 59, Institute of Korean Literary History
  • 2014“An Epistemological Conversion to Marxism: Guo Moruo’s Influence on Kim Tae-joon’s Adoption of Historical Materialism”Journal of Korean Literary History 56, Institute of Korean Literary History

Translations

  • 2025The Business Novel Pullan’gŭrimjŏn: Franklin’s Rise through Self-Cultivation and Filial PietyBogosa
  • 2025The Seobukhakhoe-wolbo: A Complete Translation, vols. 1–4Bogosaco-translation
  • 2020Kim Dal-su, “On the Murdered Kim Tae-joon”The Modern Bibliography Review 21Japanese → Korean
  • 2017Gu Zhenchun, “The Jindehui at Peking University and the Construction of May Fourth New Morality”Cogito 82, Institute for Humanities, Pusan National UniversityChinese → Korean
  • 2017Sourcebook on the 40th Anniversary of the Taiwanese Nativist Literature DebateSungkyunkwan University Pressco-translation, Chinese → Korean

Reviews and Notes

  • 2020“The Location of Korean Studies in 2020, and Global Korean Studies: A Review of Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Intimate Empire”Journal of Korean Literary History 74, Institute of Korean Literary History
  • 2020“Newly Discovered Photographs of the Myŏngnyun Academy”The Modern Bibliography Review 22

Teaching

  • 2023-2 · 2024-2 · 2025-2Modern Korean Literature and SocietyKorean Studies, Sungkyunkwan University
  • 2025-1 · 2026-1Readings in Global Korean Literature (in English)Cultural Contents, Korea University (Sejong)
  • 2024-1Introduction to Korean Studies Abroad (in English)Comparative Culture, Sungkyunkwan University
  • 2023-1Topics in East Asian StudiesEast Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University
  • 2020-1 · 2021-1 · 2022-1Modern Korean History through Primary SourcesKorean Studies, Sungkyunkwan University
  • 2020-1 · 2021-2 · 2022-2Urban Culture in KoreaKorean Studies, Sungkyunkwan University
  • 2019-2 · 2020-2 · 2021-2Subculture and FandomComparative Culture, Sungkyunkwan University
  • 2020-2Comparative Literature and CultureKorean Language and Literature, Sungkyunkwan University
  • 2021-1Understanding Modern East Asian LiteratureCollege of General Education, Wonkwang University

Education

Education

  • 2019Ph.D. in Korean LiteratureAcademy of East Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University
  • 2014M.A. in Korean LiteratureAcademy of East Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University
  • 2010B.A. in Korean Literature in Classical ChineseDepartment of Classical Chinese Literature, Sungkyunkwan University
  • 2008–2009Exchange student, Department of Chinese LiteraturePeking University

Appointments

  • 2025–LecturerKorea University (Sejong)
  • 2022–Full-time ResearcherInstitute of Jeompiljae, Pusan National University
  • 2019–LecturerSungkyunkwan University
  • 2019–2022HK Research ProfessorInstitute of Korea–China Relations, Wonkwang University

Other Experience

  • 2010–2011Hanwha Corporation / Trading — Livestock Team (overseas sales) and Product Planning
  • 2009Samsung Group Humanities Internship, Samsung Mobile Display
  • 2003–2005Military service, Republic of Korea Army (honourable discharge)

Awards and Fellowships

Service

  • 2023–Chair, Research Planning Committee, Institute of Korean Literary History
  • 2018–Member, Research Planning Committee, Institute of Korean Literary History
  • 2018–Research Planning Committee, Research Society of Lim Hwa
  • 2023–2024Organizing Committee and Head of the Research Culture Team, 2nd Congress of Scholars of Modern Literature
  • 2022–2023Organizing Committee and Head of the Research Culture Team, 1st Congress of Scholars of Modern Literature

Awards and Fellowships

  • 2021Faculty advisor, Encouragement Prize (Minister of Foreign Affairs Award), 7th Korea–China–Japan Trilateral Essay Competition
  • 2021Next-Generation Japanese Studies Scholar Overseas Research Support Program, Japan Foundation Seoul and Lee Heui Keon Korea–Japan Exchange Foundation
  • 2017–2018Japanese-Language Program for Specialists in Cultural and Academic Fields (six months), Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute, Kansai
  • 20171st Lim Hwa Academic Award, Society for the Study of Lim Hwa’s Literature
  • 2014Recommended M.A. dissertation, Journal of Korean Literary History
  • 2014Best M.A. thesis, Academy of East Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University

Languages

  • KoreanNative
  • EnglishFluent — reading, speaking, lecturing
  • Mandarin ChineseFluent — reading and speaking
  • JapaneseProficient — reading and speaking
  • Classical ChineseProficient — reading

Contact

Institute of Jeompiljae, Room 1406, Administration Building
Pusan National University, 1268-50 Samnangjin-ro, Samnangjin-eup
Miryang-si, Gyeongsangnam-do 50463, Republic of Korea

Referees

  • Boudewijn WalravenProfessor Emeritus of Korean Language and Literature, Leiden University
  • Keehyung HanProfessor Emeritus, Academy of East Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University