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Sang-ho Ro Professor

Global Korean Studies / HOKMA College of General Education / Department of Korean Studies / East Asian Studies

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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).
  • sro@ewha.ac.kr
  • Associate Dean, The Graduate School of International Studies/Department Chair, Korean Studies
  • International Education Building #608
  • 02-3277-6709
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Research Record
  • [저역서] 동물, 환경, 그리고 한국 과학사 솔과학 , 2025, 469
  • [저역서] 과학의 눈으로 세상을 본 충청의 지식인들 - 과학의 눈으로 세상을 본 충청의 지식인들 한국유교문화진흥원 , 2024, 295
  • [저역서] Insect Histories of East Asia University of Washington Press, 2023, 288
  • [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
  • Perfuming and Divine Scents in the Soteriology of Medieval Buddhism and Daoism RELIGIONS, 2025, v.16 no.4, 517
    AHCI Scopus dColl.
  • 18세기 물리(物理) 개념을 통해서 본 성호(星湖) 이익(李瀷)의 인식론 탐구 한국학연구, 2022, no.81, 35-70
    KCI dColl.
  • 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
    KCI dColl.
  • Shifting perceptions of insects in the late Chosŏn period International Journal of Korean History, 2020, v.25 no.1, 41-83
    Scopus KCI dColl.
  • 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
    KCI dColl.
  • 1940~50년대 ‘전시체제’와 국영전력사업체의 등장 한국문화연구, 2017, v.33, 63~97
    KCI dColl.
  • 조선 후기 동물에 대한 지식과 기록 - 한반도 서식 식육목(食肉目, Carnivora)의 사례를 중심으로 한국학연구, 2017, v.60, 5~48
    KCI dColl.
  • 1960년대 중화권 대중문화의 한국 내 유행과 현지화에 관한 일고찰－무협영화와 소설을 중심으로－ 한국문화연구, 2016, v.30, 265~310
    KCI dColl.
  • 서해안 갯벌 매립과 일상생활의 변화－인천 갯벌과 어촌계의 대응을 중심으로－ 역사민속학, 2015, v.47, 416-460
    KCI dColl.
  • 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
    AHCI KCI Scopus dColl.
  • [학술지논문] Perfuming and Divine Scents in the Soteriology of Medieval Buddhism and Daoism RELIGIONS, 2025, v.16 no.4 , 1-14
    AHCI
  • [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
    KCI
  • [학술지논문] Shifting perceptions of insects in the late Chosŏn period International Journal of Korean History, 2020, v.25 no.1 , 41-83
    Scopus
  • [학술지논문] 1910〜20년대 조선어 가정용 백과사전의 출판과 그 내용:- 강의영(姜義永)의 가뎡보감류를 중심으로 - 한국학연구, 2014, v.48 no.0 , 99-133
    KCI
  • [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
  • [학술지논문] 1910年代の植民地朝鮮における消費大衆の登場:『毎日申報』の連載小説を中心に 訪日学術研究者論文集, 2011, v.17 no.1 , 115-145
  • [학술발표] Repositioning a Confucian Site in Wartime Colonial Korea: The Confucian Shrine, Munmyo, and the New Order Movement in 1930s-40s Colonial Seoul Asian Studies Conference Japan , 일본, 도쿄, 2026-07-05 The 28th Asian Studies Conference Japan , 2026, 97-97
  • [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
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Courses

  • 2026-2nd

    • Korean Heritage

      • Subject No 11221Class No 01
      • Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 6~6 (ECC) , Wed 5~5 (146)
        • Syllabus(File)

    • Korean Society and Its Culture

      • Subject No KS502Class No 01
      • Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Fri 4~5 (I-EDU-903)
        • Syllabus(File)

  • 2026-1st

    • First-Year Seminar

      • Subject No 11117Class No 05
      • 1Year ( 1Credit , 1Hour) Wed 7~7 (I-EDU601)
        • Syllabus(File)

    • Korean Politics, Society and Culture Seen from Its Cinema

      • Subject No 11553Class No 01
      • Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 7~7 (I-EDU702) , Wed 6~6 (I-EDU702)
        • Syllabus(File)

    • Everyday Life in Modern Korea

      • Subject No 37562Class No 01
      • 3Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 6~6 (I-EDU601) , Wed 5~5 (I-EDU601)
        • Syllabus(File)

    • Seminar in Korean Cultural Contents II

      • Subject No KS604Class No 01
      • Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Fri 4~5 (I-EDU-903)
        • Syllabus(File)

  • 2025-2nd

    • Korean Heritage

      • Subject No 11221Class No 01
      • Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 6~6 (ECC) , Wed 5~5 (146)
        • Syllabus(File)

    • Twentieth-century Korea: Historical Perspectives

      • Subject No 38842Class No 01
      • 2Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Wed 7~7 (I-EDU601) , Fri 7~7 (I-EDU601)
        • Syllabus(File)

    • Modern Korean History

      • Subject No KS701Class No 01
      • Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Fri 4~5 (I-EDU-1002)
      • Language Changed
        • Syllabus(File)

    • International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language

      • Subject No KS805Class No 01
      • Year ( 9Credit , 9Hour)

    • International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Teaching II

  • 2025-1st

    • Reading Academic Korean Ⅰ

      • Subject No 37552Class No 01
      • 2Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 6~6 (I-EDU1202) , Wed 5~5 (I-EDU1202)
        • Syllabus(File)

    • Korean Studies Internship Ⅲ

      • Subject No 37796Class No 01
      • 3Year ( 3Credit

    • Korea from Antiquity to 1900

      • Subject No 38841Class No 01
      • 2Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Tue 4~4 (ECC) , Fri 5~5 (159)
        • Syllabus(File)

    • Studies on East Asian Civilization

      • Subject No G10002Class No 01
      • Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Wed 2~3 (ECC-)
        • Syllabus(File)

    • International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Teaching I

      • Subject No KS811Class No 01
      • Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour)

    • International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Administration II

      • Subject No KS814Class No 01
      • Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour)

    • International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Teaching I

      • Subject No KS821Class No 01
      • Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour)

    • Understanding Korean Culture

      • Subject No Y81103Class No 01
      • Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Wed 8~9 (ECC-)
        • Syllabus(File)

  • 2024-2nd

    • Korean Heritage

      • Subject No 11221Class No 01
      • Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 5~5 (ECC) , Wed 4~4 (146)
        • Syllabus(File)

    • Reading Academic Korean Ⅱ

      • Subject No 37567Class No 01
      • 3Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 6~6 (I-EDU601) , Wed 5~5 (I-EDU601)
        • Syllabus(File)

    • Value Systems of Korean People

      • Subject No KS503Class No 01
      • Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Fri 2~3 (I-EDU-903)
        • Syllabus(File)

    • International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language

    • International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Administration I

  • 2024-1st

    • Reading Academic Korean Ⅰ

      • Subject No 37552Class No 01
      • 2Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 6~6 (I-EDU601) , Wed 5~5 (I-EDU601)
        • Syllabus(File)

    • Everyday Life in Modern Korea

      • Subject No 37562Class No 01
      • 3Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Tue 5~5 (I-EDU601) , Thu 6~6 (I-EDU601)
        • Syllabus(File)

    • Advanced Seminar on East Asian Affairs Ⅱ

      • Subject No G15667Class No 01
      • Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Thu 2~3 (POSCO-356)
        • Syllabus(File)

    • Domestic Internship and Practicum in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language

    • International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language

    • Understanding Korean Culture

      • Subject No Y81103Class No 01
      • Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 8~9 (ECC-)
        • Syllabus(File)

  • 2023-2nd

    • Korean Heritage

    • Reading Academic Korean II

    • Graduate Seminar in Korean Everyday Life

      • Subject No KS545Class No 01
      • Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Fri 2~3 (I-EDU-903)
        • Syllabus(File)

    • International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language

  • 2023-1st

    • Korean Studies Internship III

    • Korea from Antiquity to 1900

    • Intellectual History on the East Asia

      • Subject No G10373Class No 01
      • Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Fri 4~5 (ECC-)
        • Syllabus(File)

    • International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language

    • International Internship in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Teaching II

    • Understanding Korean Culture 강의 계획서 상세보기

      • Subject No Y81103Class No 01
      • Year ( 3Credit , 3Hour) Mon 8~9 (ECC-)
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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)

Work Experience

Department Chair, East Asian Studies 2017-02-01 ~ 2019-01-31

Associate Dean, International Summer College 2017-02-01 ~ 2018-06-30

Associate Dean, The Graduate School of International Studies 2025-02-01 ~ 2027-01-31

Department Chair, Korean Studies 2021-02-01 ~ 2027-01-31

Visiting Researcher, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 2008-10-01 ~ 2009-08-31

Visiting Fellow, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University 2019-03-01 ~ 2020-02-29