Dr. Somei Kobayashi is an associate professor at the College of Law, Nihon University, and a research project member of The Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). Also, he is also a visiting fellow of the Jeju Peace Institute. He received his B.A., M.A, and Ph.D. in Social Sciences from Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. Before joining Nihon University, he studied at Seoul National University as an exchange student and served as a JSPS research fellow at the University of Tokyo, as a visiting scholar at various universities (University of Maryland, Korea University, and University of Cambridge), as a faculty member at Kyung Hee University, as a visiting research fellow at East-West Center Washington. He specializes in the International History of East Asia with special attention to the Inter-Korean societies and media/propaganda studies.