Biography
Professor of Japanese Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University.
She did her MA at Seoul National University in sociology and got her Ph.D degree at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. She was the director of the Institute for Japanese Studies, SNU, from 2006 to 2012 and a SNU Senate member from March 2015 to August 2016. She served as the president of the Korean Social History Association in 2014 and 2015. Professor Han is the author of several books, including Tokyo Metropolice: civil society, disparity, ethnicity(editor, co-author, 2012), Multicultural Japan and Identity Politics(co-author, 2010), Japanese Community and Grassroot Social Movement(2004), and Understanding Contemporary Japanese Society(2001). She also published articles such as “‘Permenant Residence Based on the Agreement’ and Reconstruction of Identity of Zainich Koreans: ‘Chosen’ and ‘Kankoku’- Constructing and Crossing the Border”(2017) ”, “New Relationship Between Zainichi Koreans and the Homeland: Through the Journeys of the Former ‘Chosen Nationals’ Living in Korea ”(2011, Japanese), “The Meaning of ‘Seikatsu’(Life) in the Citizen’s Movement in Contemporary Japan”(2011), “The Inheritance of the Korean Dance and Identity in the Ethnic Korean Community”(2009) etc.
She did her MA at Seoul National University in sociology and got her Ph.D degree at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. She was the director of the Institute for Japanese Studies, SNU, from 2006 to 2012 and a SNU Senate member from March 2015 to August 2016. She served as the president of the Korean Social History Association in 2014 and 2015. Professor Han is the author of several books, including Tokyo Metropolice: civil society, disparity, ethnicity(editor, co-author, 2012), Multicultural Japan and Identity Politics(co-author, 2010), Japanese Community and Grassroot Social Movement(2004), and Understanding Contemporary Japanese Society(2001). She also published articles such as “‘Permenant Residence Based on the Agreement’ and Reconstruction of Identity of Zainich Koreans: ‘Chosen’ and ‘Kankoku’- Constructing and Crossing the Border”(2017) ”, “New Relationship Between Zainichi Koreans and the Homeland: Through the Journeys of the Former ‘Chosen Nationals’ Living in Korea ”(2011, Japanese), “The Meaning of ‘Seikatsu’(Life) in the Citizen’s Movement in Contemporary Japan”(2011), “The Inheritance of the Korean Dance and Identity in the Ethnic Korean Community”(2009) etc.
