Throughout the year 2022, The Korea Herald had the valuable opportunity of collaborating with Professor Hwang Jaeho by publishing his interviews with distinguished experts across the globe discussing current events and their implications for foreign relations. … The yearlong project of Hwang’s China and the World was by no means an easy task, but was definitely an undertaking that we desperately needed and will continue to need. 

Professor Hwang is the director of Institute for Global Strategy and Cooperation and a professor of the Division of International Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) in Seoul, Korea. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the LSE. He is currently a guest fellow at the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat, and fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and the Chahar Institute, as well as an advisor to Ministry of the Interior and Safety. He was a member of the Presidential Commission on Policy and Planning, a member of advisory boards for the National Security Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution (US), Peking University, China Institute of International Studies (China), National Institute for Defense Analysis, Keio University (Japan), University of Melbourne (Australia). Before joining HUFS in 2010, he served as a research fellow at the Center for Security and Strategy in the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses. His areas of expertise include Chinese foreign policy and Sino-South Korean relations as well as diplomatic and security issues in Northeast Asia.