Yung Bin Kwak is art media scholar, art critic, and Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Communication Arts, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Winner of the 1st SeMA- Hana Art Criticism Award, the 1st major public art criticism award competition established in 2015 by Seoul Museum of Art in Korea, he received his PhD from the University of Iowa (Dept. of Cinema & Comparative Literature, now changed to Dept. of Cinematic Arts ) with a dissertation, entitled, ‘The Origin of Korean Trauerspiel’.
