National Assembly Research Service, Seoul, Republic of Korea, February 2024-November 2024 and March 2023-December 2023
Political and Parliamentary Affairs Team Legislative Research Assistant
-Researched OECD nations’ electoral systems, polling place safety measures, parliamentary response to COVID-19, unorthodox lawmaking, codes of conduct for politicians, etc., to assist members of the National Assembly in proposing effective bills
-Participated in Task Force meetings regarding South Korea’s electoral system and party politics and wrote proceedings
-Assisted in conducting seminars, including the Analysis of Legislation Impact seminar, whose goal was to share ideas for establishing a Scientific Legislative Analysis Support Center that evaluates the influence of policies
-Supported the National Assembly Research Service in hosting the 13th International Seminar for Parliamentary Research Services as a Designated Liaison Officer for research officers from Poland, Italy, and Uganda for two days and wrote proceedings for this seminar
Research Assistant of Dr. In-joo Song, a Seoul Welfare Foundation Policy Research Office Senior Researcher, Seoul, Republic of Korea, June 2024-October 2024
-Accumulated and translated the German official documents on measures for reducing immigrants' and refugees' social isolation and loneliness, such as Evaluations of Interventions Against Loneliness, Loneliness Barometer 2024, and Measures to Prevent and Alleviate Loneliness in Germany
National Democratic Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea, February 2023
North Korean Human Rights Forum the 10th Anniversary of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) Part-time Note Taker
-Took notes and summarized the content of the speech given by moderators and panelists from an international organization and North Korean human rights civil society organizations, such as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN OHCHR) and NK Watch
Institute for Political & Economic Alternatives, Seoul, Republic of Korea, January 2022-November 2023
Worked as a Visiting Researcher
-Published a working Paper
:Chun, H. (2023, November). What factors determine china to continue to fight in the semiconductor war with the u.s.?. (Institute for Political & Economic Alternatives Working Paper No. 28). https://alternative.house/alternative-issue-paper-no28/
Teaching Assistant for ECN 310 Cities in Developing Countries Course in Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, January 2022-May 2022
Worked with Professor Alexander D. Rothenberg
-Graded weekly problem sets, midterm and final exams, and referee reports, which are summaries of economic journal articles that the professor had designated
-Proctored the midterm exam with the professor
Research Assistant in Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, August 2021-May 2022
Worked with Professor Kristen Brianna Patel
-Researched North Korea’s money laundering network that helps the nation avoid international economic sanctions and illegally transfer its economic assets
-Utilized Google Maps, news articles, and reports and researched the location, type, website, etc. of the foreign firms listed on the NK Company Directory that are not sanctioned and have ties with North Korea to investigate whether they act as front companies in the North Korean money laundering network
Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB), Seoul, Republic of Korea, January 2021-July 2021
International Team Intern
-Investigated perpetrators of North Korean human rights violations by interviewing victims, who were mainly North Korean refugees, and added the information to the NKDB database
-Assisted the center in conducting a project with Action for Sustainable Development (A4SD) aimed to grasp how North Korea is making progress toward achieving each of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and provide feedback planned to be used in Voluntary National Reviews of the High-Level Political Forum in New York in July 2021 by creating interview questionnaires, conducting interviews with experts in the SDGs fields, including World Food Program and Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea, and writing proceedings
-Translated the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights project reports from Korean to English
-Translated the interview given by the victims of North Korean human rights violations and the names of the places where the human rights violations occurred from Korean to English to add them to the Visual Atlas Website, an online platform that provides satellite imagery regarding locations that North Korean human rights violation issues were caused
-Edited graphs and translated the Forward section of An, H., Kim, G., Kim, M., Kim, S., Kim, S., Kim, S., Kim, S., Su, B., Song, H., Shin, H., Ahn, H., Yoon, Y., Lim, S., Choi, S., & Gyupchanova, T. (2021). 2020 White paper on north korean human rights. [White Paper]. Retrieved from https://en.nkdb.org/publication/?idx=7450369&bmode=view# from Korean to English
-Engaged in advocacy activities by making card news along with preparing monthly briefings on North Korean and North Korean refugees’ human rights issues
Intern in University of North Korean Studies, Seoul, Republic of Korea, June 2020-November 2020
Worked with Professor Byung-cheol Lee and Young-soo Yu
-Translated Information Circular, an agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and North Korea written on November 14, 1977 and January 30, 1992 for the North Korea's safe application of research reactor facility from English to Korean
-Researched and translated recommendations given by foreign countries to North Korea regarding North Korea’s human rights situation using the Universal Human Rights Index and analyzed news articles that demonstrate the human rights violation issues that North Korean overseas workers confront