Bohyun Kim

Bohyun studied Political Science and International Relations at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. During her undergraduate years, she engaged in EAI Governance Research projects as an intern at East Asian Institute, a policy-think tank in Seoul. She continued to study Political Science with focus on European Governance at Universität zu Köln and Maastricht University in the Netherlands (double Master’s program). She also worked at different international organizations and NGOs in the field of climate change and sustainable development, such as: European Union Delegation to South Korea, ICLEI World Secretariat - Local Governments for Sustainability, UNESCO and UNFCCC - the UN Climate Conference Secretariat based in Bonn, Germany.

Research interests

• NGOs, Interest Groups, Civil Society, Climate Policymaking, Comparative politics

Publications

Peer-reviewed

• Bohyun Kim (2023). “South Korea's Partial Withdrawal from the 2015 Korea-Japan 'Comfort Women' Agreement: Changed National Role Conceptions via Increased Social Influence (2015-2018)”, ASIEN – The German Journal on Contemporary Asia (forthcoming)

Conferences and invited presentations

Accepted panel proposal:

• “Connectivity and Security: The Case of EU-Asia Relations”, The 8th Conference of European Union in International Affairs (EUIA), Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium, May 3-5, 2023: Panel proposal co-authored/co-submitted with Center for EU-Asia Connectivity, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, University of Bochum, Germany

Conference paper and presentation:

• 2023 May: “Securitizing climate change around green taxonomy: EU and South Korea”, in Panel: Connectivity and Security: The Case of EU-Asia Relations”, 8th Conference of European Union in International Affairs (EUIA), Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium, May 3-5
• 2023 March: “A comparative analysis of EU's- and South Korea's climate policymaking", in Panel 3: Green Transformation in sustainability-, climate- and energy politics, 16th Annual Forum of State-, Administration- and Policy Studies (FoJuS), NRW School of Governance, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, March 2-3
• 2022 December: “Green Détente strategy on the Korean peninsula and European experience in signing the 1975 Helsinki Declaration", Panel discussant in Seminar: What are the challenges and opportunities for the Unified Korea?, Embassy of the Republic of Korea - Bonn Office & Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU), Wissenschaftszentrum, Bonn, Germany, December 19
• 2022 October: “’Carbon Neutrality’ with or without nuclear energy? The ideas of nuclear energy in South Korean public discourse (2020-2022)”, The 11th World Congress of Korean Studies, Suwon, South Korea, October 19-21