Wonkyung Choi
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. W. Choi
- Telephone
- 071 5276272
- w.choi@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0009-0008-1576-6718
The research field of Dr. Choi is Classical Literature of the 18th and 19th centuries. She is interested in Korean intellectual history and social culture of these periods and in connecting modern and pre-modern times. She has taught Korean Literature in Classical Chinese and Korean Studies at SKKU in Korea. Educating Korean literature and philosophy is necessary for understanding Korean literature. It also expands its educational field to Korean studies for non-Korean students to develop Korean studies and educational competencies.
More information about Wonkyung Choi
Fields of interest
- Korean Classical Literature
- Expertise in premodern Korean literature
- Korean intellectual history and social culture
Research
- The Intellectual’s Expanding Perceptions of ‘Identity’ and ‘the Other’ at the End of the Joseon Dynasty
- (Virtual) Space/Epistemology in Literature in the Late Joseon Dynasty
- A New Trend in Literature in the Late Joseon Period – on the Classification and Arrangement of Knowledge
Currently, she is working with researchers from North American Universities majoring in comparative literature to conduct an academic translation project that translates Korean classics into English.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. Korean Literature in Classical Chinese (Sungkyunkwan University)
MA Korean Literature in Classical Chinese (Sungkyunkwan University)
BA Education in Classical Chinese (Sungkyunkwan University)
Professional Career -Teaching
2018 – 2022 Visiting Professor, Korean Literature in Classical Chinese, College of Liberal Arts, Sungkyunkwan University
2013 – 2018 Adjunct Professor, Education in Classical Chinese, College of Education, SKKU
2008 – 2013 Lecturer, SKKU
Professional Career - Research
2016 – 2022 Chief Researcher, The Academy of East Asian Studies, SKKU
2010 – 2016 Research Director/Senior Researcher, The Academy of East Asian Studies, SKKU
2011 Affiliated Fellow, IIAS
2008 – 2010 Researcher, The Academy of East Asian Studies, SKKU
Assistant professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- Breuker R.E. & Choi W. (2026), Conversing by Brush: A Partial P’iltam 筆談 Conversation between Robert van Gulik and Chŏng Inbo 鄭寅普 in the Collection of Leiden University Libraries, Korean Histories 5(1): 49-75.
- Choi W. (2026), Embodied Reading of Classical Sinitic: Toksong and Hanmun Pedagogy, Journal of Sinographic Philologies and Legacies 2(1): 103-130.
- Choi W. (2026), 한국 한문학의 영어 번역에서 ‘이국화’와 ‘자국화’ 양립 가능성[Toward Reconciling Foreignization and Domestication in English Translations of Korean Literature in Classical Chinese]. In: , 한문고전의 영토와 번역학 [The Realm of Hanmun Classics and Translation Studies]. Seoul: Sungkyunkwan University Press.
- Choi W. (2025), Classical Korean Studies in Europe: Developments and Challenges within the Philological Tradition, 한국한문학연구[Journal of Korean Literature in Classical Chinese] (94): 9-45.
- Choi W. (2023), 한국 한문학의 영어 번역에서 ‘이국화’와 ‘자국화’ 양립을 위한 제언:Proposal for the Coexistence of ‘Foreignization’ and ‘Domestication’ in English Translations of Korean Classical Literature: －『孰遂念』 영어 번역 사례와 함께－: A Case Study of the English Translation of 『孰遂念』], 고전번역연구 (Journal of Translation of Korean Classics) (14): 185 - 213.
- Choi W. (2021), 항해 홍길주 散文 一考[A Study of Hong Gilju’s Prose], 大東漢文學 (69): 213-241.
- Choi W. (2017), 홍길주의 「삼사념(三事念)」에 나타난 재산에 관한 인식-유용(有用)과 무용(無用)[Recognizing of Property in Hong Gilju's Samsanyeom – On Usefulness and Uselessness.], 漢文學報 37: 241-274.
- Choi W. (2015), 항해 홍길주의 글에서 언어 ・ 문자의 문제[Language and Letters in the Writings of Hong Gilju (洪吉周)], 대동문화연구 91: 251-278.
- Daiten (大典) trans. Kim Moonkyung Jin Jaegyo Wonkyung Choi (2013), 18세기 일본 지식인, 조선을 엿보다 — 평우록(萍遇錄)[[An Eighteenth-Century Japanese Intellectual’s Glimpse into Joseon: 평우록 (萍遇录)]: (萍遇錄 translation). Seoul: Sungkyunkwan University Press. [other].
- Choi W. (2011), 조선 후기 지식인의 주체와 타자 인식의 문제 - 항해 홍길주의 「釋夢」과 「釋夢」繫 분석을 중심으로 -[The intellectual’s expanding perceptions of 'identity' and 'the other' at the end of the Chosun Dynasty], 漢文學報 24: 431-454.
- Choi W. (2009), 沆瀣 洪吉周를 통해 본 고전작가의 초상[A Portrait of a Classical Writer from Hang-hae 沆瀣], 현대문학의 연구 (39): 39-63.
- Choi W. (2009), 「如意枕銘」에 나타난 욕망에 관한 재인식 [Reassessing Desire in The Inscription on Yŏŭich'im], 한국한문학연구[Journal of Korean Literature in Classical Chinese] (44): 299-322.