Policy & Public

Op-Ed

“South Korea Will Not Choose Between the US & China,” The National Interest, June 26, 2025 (with David C. Kang).

Podcast

Security Dilemma, hosted by the John Quincy Adams Society (JQAS), Episode on "East Asia: Balancing or Bandwagoning? with Kyuri Park," July 1, 2025.
- [Youtube], [Apple Podcast], [Spotify], [iHeartRadio]

Policy Briefs, Workshops & Roundtables

2020 Briefing for the Former U.S. Secretary of Defense, General James N. Mattis (Ret.) on East Asian security
2022 Briefing for the Former Governor of California, Jerry Brown on East Asian security
2022 Roundtable on “South Korean Perceptions of Strategic Risk,” organized by the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN) and the European Leadership Network (ELN)
2023 Roundtable with CG ROK Army Missile Strategic Command and Stanford University's Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) and the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)
2023 W&M Security and Foreign Policy Initiative (SFPI)’s Conference on “The Past, Present, and Future of US Alliances,” Panel on “Asia-Pacific Alliances and Alignments”
- Conference [Agenda]
- W&M GRI [Social Media]
2023 NATO Strategic Foresight Workshop at the Allied Command Transformation (ACT) in Norfolk
2023 U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Guest lecture on “South Korea’s Foreign Policy: Navigating Between the US and China” for the US diplomats assigned to S.Korea & Japan
2024 W&M SFPI’s Conference on “Cooperation, Competition, & Conflict in East Asia,” Panel on “U.S.-Japan-South Korea Alliance”
- Conference [Agenda]
- Quoted in the [W&M News]
2025 W&M SFPI’s Conference on “Power Vacuum and Power Competition,” Panel on “Small and Middle Powers, and the International Order”
- Conference [Agenda]
2025 Brown University, Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs, China Initiative's Conference on "Defusing Militarized Rivalry between the U.S. and China."

Policy Analysis

“On Board for a Dual Track Approach: Korea-Japan relations" in Comparative Connections: A Triannual E-Journal on East Asian Bilateral Relations, Vol. 19, No. 2, September 2017, with David C. Kang.
“Continuation of Dual Track Approach: Korea-Japan relations" in Comparative Connections: A Triannual E-Journal on East Asian Bilateral Relations, Vol. 19, No. 3, January 2018, with David C. Kang.
“The North Korea Factor: Korea-Japan relations" in Comparative Connections: A Triannual E-Journal on East Asian Bilateral Relations, Vol. 20, No. 1, May 2018, with David C. Kang.
“Back to Normal Business: Korea-Japan relations” in Comparative Connections: A Triannual E-Journal on East Asian Bilateral Relations, Vol. 20, No. 2, September 2018, with David C. Kang.

Public Talks & Media

2022 The John Quincy Adams Society's (JQAS) East Asian Security Speaker Series
2023 USC Korean Studies Institute (KSI)'s US-Korea NextGen Scholars' Korea Questions Series, Season 4, Episode 1
2023 Quoted in the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI)’s The Peninsula report on "Korea's Leap into the Indo-Pacific"
2024 Quoted in Daily Press on "World Focus: Is China an Existential Threat?"
2025 Interview with Yonhap News TV on "the 21st Presidential Election of South Korea"
2025 Interview with the Kukmin Daily on "the 21st Presidential Election of South Korea."