Jinkyung Baek is a PhD candidate in politics research at King’s College London. She previously served as the director of the research department and a senior researcher at the East Asia Institute, Republic of Korea. At EAI, she supervised all the research projects. but her individual work mainly focused on national security, regional co-operation and democracy in Asia, and governance. She holds an MA in International Relations from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, and a BA in International Studies major in European Studies from De La Salle University in the Philippines.

Research

• International relations
• International security
• Cybersecurity
• Conflict

Teaching

4SSW1008 Conflict and Diplomacy

4SSW1004 Contemporary Security Issues

Doctoral research

International Co-operation as a Mechanism to Counter Cyber Threats: A Case Study of North Korea’s Cyber-Attacks

Doctoral supervisors

Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo and Dr Joseph Baines

Publications

• Baek, J. (2023). Lessons from Asia – Exploring Worldwide Democratic Innovations. European Democracy Hub.
• Baek, J. (2022). Exploring Worldwide Democratic Innovations – A Case Study of South Korea. European Democracy Hub.
• Baek, J., & Yoon, H. E. (2021). State of Legal and Social Support for Refugees and Displaced Foreign Nationals in Asia: Comparison of Five Asian Countries. Asia Democracy Research Network.
• Whang, T., & Baek, J. (2020). South Korean Perception of North Korea and Unification: The Future of the Korean Peninsula, Neighbor rather than Brother. East Asia Institute.
• Baek, J., & Chun, C. (2020). Present and Future of The Four-Point Strategy toward North Korea. Global North Korea.
• Baek, J., & Park, W. G. (2019). Mid-Term Assessment of the Moon Jae-In Administration’s Diplomatic Security Policy through Public Opinion: The Drive for North Korea Policy to Realize Peace and Prosperity on the Korean Peninsula. Global North Korea.
• Baek, J., & Chun, C. (2019). North Korea’s Biological and Chemical Weapons and the Path to Denuclearization. Global North Korea.