Born in Korea in 1983, she emigrated to Germany in 1984. Her personal background made her sensitive to intercultural communication. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins in London, a Master of International Studies in European Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies at Seoul National University, and a PhD in Political Science at the Graduate School of East Asian Studies at the Free University Berlin with a thesis titled “Measuring Frames: Discursive Institutions in Polarized Politics” (2016). Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Web Science and Technologies at the University of Koblenz, she works on social and political polarization, text analysis, online misinformation, and democracy in digital society, and engages in increasing interdisciplinary research.

Previously, she worked as External Affairs officer at the Korea Institute for Public Finance and Taxation, and as postdoctoral researcher at the Korean Studies department of the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (Paris) followed by the Computational Social Science department of GESIS (Cologne).

While living in Paris in early 2017, she came across the “Blood Sweat & Tears” music video on YouTube. Captivated by an undefinable difference that she couldn’t pinpoint, she just wanted to look up their names, fell into the rabbit hole, and came out an ARMY.