Dr Dong Kwang Kim
PhD student
A PhD candidate at the LH Martin Institute, Dong has been academically trained in both education and philosophy. After completing undergraduate study in education science (BA) at Pusan National University in his hometown Pusan, Korea, he travelled to the US for further study. Dong graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, with an MEd in Curriculum & Instruction and a PhD in Philosophy. His dissertation was titled Plato's Ideal Education: From Elenchus to Psychagogia. At the LH Martin Institute, he is working on his second PhD with a research topic on university governance, management, and leadership.
After completing his first PhD, Dong traveled to Japan to help establish a university in the greater Tokyo metropolitan area, where he subsequently worked as Professor of Philosophy. In Tokyo, he taught at a few universities there before returning to Korea, where he taught at the Department of Education, Pusan National University. He then moved to the Korean Council for University Education (KCUE), where he worked as Director of External Relations and later as Director of Coordination and Planning. He also taught at the Graduate School of Education, Catholic University of Korea, before joining the LH Martin Institute.
Dong has extensive academic and administrative experience and his current academic and practical interest lies in higher education, with particular emphasis on effective and efficient management of universities.
Selected publications
Kim, DK 2007, 'Gorgias' Philosophy and Its Educational Implications', The Korean Journal of Educational Idea, 21.2, pp. 167-188.
Kim, DK 2007, 'Psychagogia as Plato's Ideal of Education', Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Education Society of Korea (PESK), 33, pp. 5-25.
Kim, DK 2007, 'The Educational Meaning of Socratic Elenchus', The Korean Journal of Educational Idea, 21.1, pp. 67-81.
Kim, DK 2006, 'Isocrates' Definition of Philosophy and Educational Thoughts', The Social Science Review, Social Science Research Institute, Yonsei University, 37.2, pp. 27-47.
Kim, DK 2006, 'On the Problematic Nature of Higher Education Reform Movements in Korea', Annual Journal of The Asian Cultures Research Institute, Toyo University, 41, pp. 35-45.
