Sang-ho Ro Associate Professor
Global Korean Studies/Department of Korean Studies/East Asian Studies/HOKMA College of General Education
Sang-ho Ro works on the intellectual and cultural history of early modern and modern Korea. He received his Ph.D. in East Asian Studies (Korean history) from Princeton University in 2012 and came to Ewha in 2013 after teaching as an instructor at Seoul National University and Inha University. His research concentrates on the history of knowledge, examining the historical transformation of Neo-Confucian epistemology and scientific research on the eve of the modern period. His latest book came out in 2021 from Routledge in a title of Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea: Humanity and Nature, 1706-1814 (New York and London: Routledge, 2021). His recent article is "Shifting perceptions of insects in the late Choson period", International Journal of Korean History 25:1 (2020). Also, he is a contributor of Kanryu, Nichryu : Higashi Ajia bunka k ry no jidai (Tokyo: Bensei shuppan, 2014) and Myeongdong kilgori munhwasa (Han'gukhak chungang yeonguweon, 2019).
- Department Chair, Department of Korean Studies/Department Chair, Korean Studies
- International Education Building #608
- 02-3277-6709
Research Record
- [저역서] Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea: Humanity and Nature, 1706-1814 Routledge, 2021, 234
- [저역서] 명동길거리문화사 한국학중앙연구원출판부, 2019, 197
- [저역서] 韓流・日流-東アジア文化交流の時代 勉誠出版, 2014, 341
- 18세기 물리(物理) 개념을 통해서 본 성호(星湖) 이익(李瀷)의 인식론 탐구 한국학연구, 2022, no.81, 35-70
- 세종학당재단 이해영 이사장님 인터뷰 대담 한국문화연구, 2022, v.43, 145-159
- Kim Yung Sik 김영식, Han’guk Jeontong Gwahagui Baegyeong 한국 전통 과학의 배경 (The Background of the Traditional Korean Science), Paju: Dulnyouk. 2021, 379 pp. 한국과학사학회지, 2021, v.43 no.2, 511-513
- 미지(未知)의 존재에서 미지(未知)의 권력으로, “기술자들의 시대가 찾아 왔어” 한국문화연구, 2021, v.41, 215-221
- Shifting perceptions of insects in the late Chosŏn period International Journal of Korean History, 2020, v.25 no.1, 41-83
- 해방 전후 수학 지식의 보급과 탈식민지 수학자의 역할: 최윤식(崔允植)과 이임학(李林學)의 사례를 중심으로 한국과학사학회지, 2018, v.40 no.3, 359~388
- 1940~50년대 ‘전시체제’와 국영전력사업체의 등장 한국문화연구, 2017, v.33, 63~97
- 조선 후기 동물에 대한 지식과 기록 - 한반도 서식 식육목(食肉目, Carnivora)의 사례를 중심으로 한국학연구, 2017, v.60, 5~48
- 1960년대 중화권 대중문화의 한국 내 유행과 현지화에 관한 일고찰-무협영화와 소설을 중심으로- 한국문화연구, 2016, v.30, 265~310
- 서해안 갯벌 매립과 일상생활의 변화-인천 갯벌과 어촌계의 대응을 중심으로- 역사민속학, 2015, v.47, 416-460
- [학술지논문] Yi Ik's epistemological expansion seen through the concept of Mulli (the principle of things) in the eighteenth century 한국학연구, 2022, v.81 no.0 , 35-70
- [학술지논문] Cookbooks and female writers in late Chosǒn Korea Seoul Journal of Korean Studies, 2016, v.29 no.1 , 133-157
- [학술지논문] 서해안 갯벌 매립과 일상생활의 변화-인천 갯벌과 어촌계의 대응을 중심으로- 역사민속학, 2015, v.1 no.47 , 416-460
- [학술지논문] 1910〜20년대 조선어 가정용 백과사전의 출판과 그 내용:- 강의영(姜義永)의 가뎡보감류를 중심으로 - 한국학연구, 2014, v.48 no.0 , 99-133
- [학술지논문] Cultural Hybridity and Mimic Men in Colonial Korea: The Case of Yu Chin-o (1906-1987) SUNGKYUN JOURNAL OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES, 2013, v.13 no.2 , 193-209
- [학술지논문] Cafe Waitresses and Disharmony: "Erotic Grotesque" Aestheticism in 1930s Colonial Korea Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences, 2012, v.4 no.4 , 729-756
- [저역서] Insect Histories of East Asia University of Washington Press, 2023, 288
- [학술발표] 디지털 시대 주석의 새로운 의미: 한국 고본 연구의 하이퍼텍스트성 Korean Studies in the Digital Era: Sources, Tools, and Methods, 대한민국, 대구, 2024-05-03 Korean Studies in the Digital Era: Sources, Tools, and Methods, 2024, 207-228
- [학술발표] Born-in-America in the Kingdom of Plants in Early Modern Korea: Tobacco and the Psychoactive Revolution The 7th Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History, 대한민국, 대전, 2023-06-30 EAEH 2023 Proceedings of the 7th Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History, 2023, 432-443
- [학술발표] Mathematical Justification and Proofs as a New Mode of Knowledge Exchange in Eighteenth-century Korea 31st AKSE Conference, 덴마크, 코펜하겐, 2023-06-24 31st AKSE Conference, 2023
- [학술발표] 동아시아 공연예술에서 나타나는 중성적/양성적 미: 한일 극예술의 비교고찰 동북아시아 공연예술에 나타난 근대성, 대한민국, 2018-01-27 동북아시아 공연예술에 나타난 근대성 , 2018
- [학술발표] Regime of Engineering: Soyang Dam Construction and Transnational Cooperation in the 1960s Pak Chong-hui Administration Bi-annual Conference of Association of Korean Studies in Europe, 체코, 2017-04-21 28th AKSE Conference Prague 2017, 2017
- [학술발표] Developing Gangnam: Water, State, and Society in Modern Korea Korea with Empire: Resisting, Contesting, and Approriating Transnational Universals, 미국, 2016-04-23 Conference Proceeding, 2016
- [학술발표] Everyday Politics of Reclaiming Mud Flats in West Coast of South Korea: Historical Anthropology of Fishermen's Unions in Incheon East Asian Environmental History 2015, 일본, 2015-10-24 Beyond borders: Oceans, Mountains, and Rivers in East Asia, 2015
- [학술발표] 재한화교(在韓華僑)의 언론활동과 1960년대 명동 글로벌공간<명동>을 통해 본 한국문화의 가능성, 대한민국, 2015-11-28 글로벌공간<명동>을 통해 본 한국문화의 가능성, 2015, 3-27
- [서평] Book Review: The Background of the Traditional Korean Science by Kim Yung Sik 한국과학사학회지, 2021, v.43 no.2 , 511-513
- [서평] 미국의대한원조와환경패러다임의변화(2): USAID의1972년 서울도시환경보고서를중심으로 생태환경과역사 , 2018, v.4 , 93-112
- [서평] 미국의 대한원조와 환경패러다임의 변화(1): USAID의 1972년 서울 도시환경보고서를 중심으로 생태환경과 역사, 2017, v.3 , 143-156
- [서평] Book Review, Engraving Virtue: the Printing History of a Premodern Korean Moral Primer East Asian Publishing and Society, 2015, v.5 no.1 , 144-147
- [서평] Book Review, Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom’s Frontier Journal of Contemporary Korean Studies, 2015, v.1 no.1 , 223-227
- [서평] Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History. Asian Review of World Histories, 2014, v.2 no.1 , 133-135
- [서평] 최근 10년간 한국 고전텍스트의 영어 번역의 동향과 전망 한국문화연구, 2013, v.24 , 147-166
Courses
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2024-2nd
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Korean Heritage
- Subject No 11221Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 5~5 (ECC) , Wed 4~4 (146)
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Reading Academic Korean Ⅱ
- Subject No 37567Class No 01
- 3Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 6~6 (I-EDU601) , Wed 5~5 (I-EDU601)
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Value Systems of Korean People
- Subject No KS503Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Fri 2~3 (I-EDU-903)
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Domestic Internship and Practicum in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language
- Subject No KS802Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour)
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International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language
- Subject No KS805Class No 01
- Year ( 9Credit , 9Hour)
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International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Administration I
- Subject No KS813Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour)
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2024-1st
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Reading Academic Korean Ⅰ
- Subject No 37552Class No 01
- 2Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 6~6 (I-EDU601) , Wed 5~5 (I-EDU601)
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Everyday Life in Modern Korea
- Subject No 37562Class No 01
- 3Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Tue 5~5 (I-EDU601) , Thu 6~6 (I-EDU601)
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Advanced Seminar on East Asian Affairs Ⅱ
- Subject No G15667Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Thu 2~3 (POSCO-356)
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Domestic Internship and Practicum in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language
- Subject No KS802Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour)
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International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language
- Subject No KS805Class No 01
- Year ( 9Credit , 9Hour)
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Understanding Korean Culture
- Subject No Y81103Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 8~9 (ECC-)
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2023-2nd
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Korean Heritage
- Subject No 11221Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 6~6 (ECC) , Wed 5~5 (142)
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Reading Academic Korean II
- Subject No 37567Class No 01
- 3Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Tue 5~5 (I-EDU601) , Thu 6~6 (I-EDU601)
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Graduate Seminar in Korean Everyday Life
- Subject No KS545Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Fri 2~3 (I-EDU-903)
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International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language
- Subject No KS805Class No 01
- Year ( 9Credit , 9Hour)
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2023-1st
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Korean Studies Internship III
- Subject No 37796Class No 01
- 3Year ( 3Credit
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Korea from Antiquity to 1900
- Subject No 38841Class No 01
- 2Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 5~5 (I-EDU601) , Wed 4~4 (I-EDU601)
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Intellectual History on the East Asia
- Subject No G10373Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Fri 4~5 (ECC-)
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International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language
- Subject No KS805Class No 01
- Year ( 9Credit , 9Hour)
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International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Teaching II
- Subject No KS822Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour)
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Understanding Korean Culture 강의 계획서 상세보기
- Subject No Y81103Class No 01
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2022-2nd
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North Korean Society and Culture
- Subject No 37561Class No 01
- 2Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 3~3 (I-EDU601) , Wed 2~2 (I-EDU601)
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Twentieth-century Korea: historical perspectives
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- 2Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 6~6 (I-EDU601) , Wed 5~5 (I-EDU601)
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Advanced Study in Korean Studies Materials 강의 계획서 상세보기
- Subject No KS601Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 2~3 (I-EDU-903)
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International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language
- Subject No KS805Class No 01
- Year ( 9Credit , 9Hour)
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International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Teaching I
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- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour)
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International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Administration I
- Subject No KS825Class No 01
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International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Teaching V
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- Year ( 6Credit , 6Hour)
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2022-1st
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Korean Heritage
- Subject No 11221Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Tue 4~4 , Fri 5~5
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Reading Academic Korean I
- Subject No 37552Class No 01
- 2Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 5~5 (I-EDU601) , Wed 4~4 (I-EDU601)
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Everyday Life in Modern Korea
- Subject No 37562Class No 01
- 3Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 6~6 (I-EDU602) , Wed 5~5 (I-EDU602)
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On the Cultural Contacts in East Asian Societies 강의 계획서 상세보기
- Subject No G10005Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Thu 2~3 (-)
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International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Teaching I
- Subject No KS811Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour)
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International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Teaching I
- Subject No KS821Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour)
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Understanding Korean Culture
- Subject No Y81103Class No 01
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2021-2nd
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Reading Academic Korean II
- Subject No 37567Class No 01
- 3Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Tue 4~4 , Fri 5~5
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Korean Studies Internship III
- Subject No 37796Class No 01
- 3Year ( 3Credit
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Advanced Seminar on East Asia Affairs Ⅰ
- Subject No G10389Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Wed 2~3 (-)
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Value Systems of Korean People
- Subject No KS503Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Thu 2~3 (I-EDU-903)
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2021-1st
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Creativity, Convergence, and Global Leaders
- Subject No 11307Class No 01
- 1Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Wed 6~7
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Everyday Life in Modern Korea
- Subject No 37562Class No 01
- 3Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Tue 6~6 , Thu 4~4
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Korea from Antiquity to 1900
- Subject No 38841Class No 01
- 2Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 6~6 , Wed 5~5
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Intellectual History on the East Asia 강의 계획서 상세보기
- Subject No G10373Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Fri 5~6 (G)
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Understanding Korean Culture 강의 계획서 상세보기
- Subject No Y81103Class No 01
- Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 8~9 (-)
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Academic Background
Princeton University Ph.D.(East Asian Studies)
Seoul Nat'l Univ. 문학석사(동양사학)
Seoul Nat'l Univ. 문학사(동양사학)