Hong Nak Kim
Professor
Ph.D., Georgetown University, 1965
Office: 315E Woodburn Hall
Tel: 304-293-3811, ext. 5278
Email: hongkim@wvu.edu
Professor Kim teaches comparative politics with emphasis on East Asia. He teaches Introduction to Comparative Politics, Government of China, Government of Japan, Far Eastern International Relations and Comparative Public Policy. Formerly editor of East Asia Review and currently editor of International Journal of Korean Studies, he has contributed more than 100 articles to such journals as Asian Survey, Pacific Affairs, World Politics, World Affairs, Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, Current History and the Problems of Communism. He is coeditor of six books, including Korean Reunification: New Perspectives and Appraoches (Kyungnam University Press, 1984) and North Korea: the Politics of Regime Survival (M.E. Sharpe, 2006) and authored Japanese-Korean Relations in the 1990s (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1994). He was named Outstanding Researcher in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences in 1985, and has been a Fulbright visiting professor at Tokyo’s Keio University (1979, 1982) and Seoul National University (1990). In the fall semester of 2005, he conducted research on Japanese-North Korean relations as a visiting POSCO Fellow at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. In the summer of 2007, he was a Visiting Scholar at the East-West Center. Since 2004, he has served as president of the International Council on Korean Studies, Washington, D.C.
