Kim Youngmin is professor of political science and diplomacy at Seoul National University. He received his Ph.D. in East Asian history of thoughts from Harvard University and worked as professor at Bryn Mawr College. His English books include A History of Chinese Political Thought (2018). He studies East Asian political ideology and comparative political ideology. In 1998, he won the Spring Literary Award in film criticism category by Dong-A Ilbo, and is currently communicating with people through various newspaper columns. Among them, the What is Chuseok column gained a lot of response,bringinghim a lot of attention as an idol of the column world.