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CHOI, Hoyong (崔虎龍), Department of Religious Studies, Sogang University. (Graduate Student)

Preferred name: Blue

E-mail: blue@sogang.ac.kr

Education

2025-present: Ph.D., Relgious Studies, Department of Religious Studies, Sogang Uniersity, Seoul, South Korea [-ing]

2024-2025: M.A., Religious Studies, Department of Religious Studies,  Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea

2023: Exchange Student to Tilburg University, the Netherlands (Spring Semester, courses in English)

2020-2024: B.A., Religious Studies, Department of Religious Studies, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea [Summa Cum Laude]

B.A., Psychology (Double Major), Department of Psychology, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea

Employment

2024-present: Research Assistant, Sogang University Journal of Korean Religions, Seoul, South Korea

Research

1. Thesis

• Master's Thesis: "노자 『도덕경』에서 사랑의 개념 [The Concept of Love in Laozi's Daodejing]" Sogang University. (2025) [Click to download]

2. Research publication (Published Articles)

1. "조선 유학에서 수평적 사제 관계 재조명: 퇴계-제자, 성호-제자 간 관계 분석을 중심으로[Re-examining Horizontal Teacher-Student Relationships in Korean Confucianism: Focusing on the Cases of Toegye and Seongho]." (Co-authored with Kang Bo Hyeouk) 교육비평. 58. (2025.08.): 233-286.

2. “율곡 이기지묘에 대한 신비주의적 접근 [Mystical Understanding of Yulgok’s ‘Mysterious Unity of Li and Gi (理氣之妙)’].” (Co-authored with So-Yi Chung) 종교연구. 84(2). (2024. 10.): 37-67.

3.  “유교적 인간 헨리 데이비드 소로: 『논어』에 드러난 안회의 삶과 『월든』에 드러난 소로의 삶의 비교를 통하여 [Henry David Thoreau, a Confucian Human: Through the Comparison Between Yan-Hui’s Life in Analects and Thoreau's Life in Walden].” 인간.환경.미래. 32. (2024. 04.): 195-230.

3. Conference Presentations

1. “Henry David Thoreau, a Confucian Human: Comparing of Lives of Yan-Hui in the Analects and Thoreau in Walden” - Paper presented at The World Consortium for Research in Confucian Cultures (WCRCC) 2024 held in Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea.

Awards

1. 2025 제 3회 『교육비평』 학술논문 공모전 [The 3rd Competition of Education Review] (3rd Prize) [2,000,000 KRW] (Co-authored)

• With Paper "조선 유학에서 수평적 사제 관계 재조명: 퇴계-제자, 성호-제자 간 관계 분석을 중심으로[Re-examining Horizontal Teacher-Student Relationships in Korean Confucianism: Focusing on the Cases of Toegye and Seongho.]"

2. 2024 제 11회 21세기 인문가치포럼 [The 11th 21st Century Human Values Forum Paper Competition] (3rd Prize) (Graduate Students), Korea Foundation for Cultures and Ethics. [500,000 KRW] (Andong, South Korea)

• With the paper “삶의 부조리를 대하는 세 가지 방법과 그에 대한 평가: 알베르 카뮈의 『시지프 신화』와 『이방인』을 중심으로 [Three ways to deal with the absurdity of life and an evaluation of them: Focusing on Albert Camus’s The Myth of the Sisyphus and The Stranger.] ”

3. 2023 제1회 상명 계당학술제 [Sangmyung Gyedang Academic Conference], Sangmyung University. [300,000 KRW] (Seoul, South Korea)

• With the paper “템플스테이의 종교현상학적 고찰: ‘현대 한국의 독자적 종교 현상’으로서의 템플스테이 – G. 반 델 레에우의 이론으로 분석하여 – [An Examination of Temple Stay with Phenomenology of Religions: Temple Stay as a ‘Unique Religious Phenomenon in Contemporary Korea’ – Analyzing with G. van der Leeuw’s Theory]”

4. 2023 제6회 인도 남아시아 대학(원)생 논문 공모전 [The 6th Indian-South Asian University (Graduate) Student Paper Competition], Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Institute of Indian Studies. [1,000,000 KRW] (Seoul, South Korea)

• With the paper “사랑으로서 범아일여(梵我一如)의 의미와 기능 – 어네스트 베커의 유기체 인식, 루돌프 오토의 신비 개념, 박티와 비교 대비하여 – [The Meaning and Function of the Unity of Brahman and Atman – Compared and Contrasted with Ernest Becker’s Organismic Recognition, Rudolf Otto’s Concept of Mystery, and Hinduist Bhakti.]”

5. 2022 제 9회 21세기 인문가치포럼 [The 9th 21st Century Human Values Forum Paper Competition] (1st Prize) (Undergraduate Students), Korea Foundation for Cultures and Ethics. [1,000,000 KRW] (Andong, South Korea)

• With the paper “무위(無爲): 기후위기 시대의 지속 가능한 발전을 위한 삶의 방식 [Wu-wei: A way of life for sustainable development in the age of climate crisis]”

Fellowships

• 2024 Autumn Albatross Fellowship (Tuition Wavier), Sogang University (5,256,000 KRW)

• 2024 Spring Albatross Fellowship (Tuition Wavier), Sogang University (6,298,000 KRW)

• 2025 ACKR(Academy Center for Korean Religions) Graduate Student Fellowship, Sogang University ACKR

Fields of Interest

• Chinese Philosophy (Pre-Qin Confucianism, Neo-Confucianism, Pre-Qin Daoism and Mohism)

• Korean Philosophy (Joseon Dynasty Neo-Confucianism)

• Comparative Philosophy

Languages

• Korean (Native)

• English (Advanced)

• Classical Chinese (reading skills, intermediate, but in the Korean way of reading)

• Mandarin (Basic Communication, Currently Learning )

• Portuguese (Basic Reading)

• French (Basic Communication)