• BA in English Language & Literature, Seoul National University
• MFA in Art Theory, Seoul National University
• MA in Art History, University of Chicago
• Ph.D. in Art History, University of Iowa
• Professor of Department of Fine Art, Kookmin University
• Former Professor at Hanyang University and the University of Alabama, USA
• Art historian and art critic

Major publications

Twentieth-century Art Theory (미진사, 2013)
Harold Rosenberg’s Critique of Modernism (한국학술정보, 2009)
The Vestige of Resistance: Harold Rosenberg’s Action Criticism (2009)