Kwak Ho-chul is a director of the chaplaincy division of YUHS (Yonsei University Health System) and an associate professor of Christian ethics, United Graduate School of Theology at Yonsei University.

He received his Ph.D. in Christian Ethics from Claremont Graduate University. He has published articles, such as “From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained: Artificial Intelligence, Labor and Basic Income” and “Christian Ethical Study on Korean Christianity’s Discrimination against Ethnic Others,” book chapters like “The Necessity and Directivity of Basic Income from the Perspective of Christian Ethics: Focusing on Ethics of the Other,” in the book, Basic Income in Korea and Beyond: Social, Economic, and Theological Perspectives and a translation, Faith and Human Rights.

ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE

• Associate Professor, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (Mar. 2022 – Present)
• Associate Professor, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (Mar. 2019 – Feb. 2022)
• Assistant Professor, Keimyung University, Daegu, Korea ` (Mar. 2015 – Feb. 2019)

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Theology, Ethics and Culture,
  Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, USA (2007- 2012)
• M. Div., Saint Paul School of Theology, Kansas City, Missouri, USA (2003-2007)
• Th. M. and B. A., Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (1991-1995)

PUBLICATION

Articles

• “Christian Ethical Study on Korean Christianity’s Discrimination against Ethnic Others,” Theology and Society, 2023.11.
• “Identity and Direction of Christian University Chapel for the MZ generation: Focusing on Cases of Hannam University and Yonsei University Chapel,” University and Mission, 2022.03.
• “A New Perspective on Sin in The Age of Globalisation: Analyses and Reflections of Sin in the case of Nation-State Building of the United States,” HTS Teologiese Studies-Theological Studies, 2021.02.
• “An Epistemology of Concrete Others Based on the Two-nature Christology for Solidarity of Others in the Age of Globalization,” Journal for The Study of Religions and Ideologies, 2020.12.
• “Climate Crisis in the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5℃ and a Christian Ethical Response,” University and Mission, 2019.12.
• “From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained: Artificial Intelligence, Labor and Basic Income,” Theological Thought, 2018.06.
• “How to Overcome Christian Extremism: Christianity’s Accomplice in Rwandan Genocide and Its Implication for Korean Christianity,” Christian Social Ethics, 2016. 12.
• “Making John Rawls’ Political Liberalism Political and Its Implications for Religion,” Theological Forum, 2013.12

Book chapters and Books

• “Edward A. Adams and Keimyung University,” in Missionary and University, 2023.08.
• “The Necessity and Directivity of Basic Income from the Perspective of Christian Ethics: Focusing on Ethics of the Other,” in Basic Income in Korea and Beyond: Social, Economic, and Theological Perspectives, 2023.02.
• “Christian Virtue Cultivation in light of Christian Ethics,” in Virtue Cultivation for Christians, 2020.12.
• “The Reality of Megachurches as Analyzed by the Publicly Adequate Size Metric,” Is there a Publicness in Korean Church Architecture, 2017.05.

CONTACT

Phone: 82-2-2228-1011
E-mail: hkwak@yonsei.ac.kr