I am a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at UC Merced, where I study factors driving human behavior—particularly shared trauma, victimhood narratives, and dogmatic beliefs. My work spans from voting behavior within nations to international land disputes.
My dissertation examines how land-claim framing influences conflict support, how historical traumas (colonialism/war) shape political attitudes, and how victimhood narratives drive polarization and undermine democratic compromise.
I am a native Korean speaker, proficient in English and Japanese, with intermediate-level skills in Arabic and Hebrew from my time in Israel.