DUCATION
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Master of Fine Arts in Performing Arts - Film, 2016
Committee: Dr. Dick Blau, Prof. Cecelia Condit, Prof. Portia Cobb, Dr. Erica Bornstein.
Handong Global University, South Korea
Bachelor of Arts, 2007, Double Major: Visual Performing Arts, Mass Communication
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor, School of Communication & Media
Kennesaw State University, GA, U.S.A. (Fall 2022 – Present)
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Augusta University, GA, U.S.A. (Fall 2021 – Spring 2022)
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Visual, Performing Arts
Malone University, OH, U.S.A. (Fall 2016 – Spring 2021)
CERTIFICATE / LICENSE
Remote Pilot (Drone)
Department of Transportation – Federal Aviation Administration (U.S.A.)
AWARDS & HONORS
Gold Award (1st place), Video & Film Category
- Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication - Festival of Visual & Interactive Media, 2024
Award of Excellence (Faculty Short Documentary Competition)
- Broadcast Education Association-Festival of Media Arts, 2024
Innovative Pedagogy Recognition
- Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences, KSU, 2023
Certificate of Achievement – The KSU Show and Tell Conference for Excellence
- Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences, KSU, 2023
Award of Excellence (Faculty Micro Documentary Competition)
- The Broadcast Education Association-Festival of Media Arts, 2022
Outstanding Teaching Award, Fall 2021
- Department of Communication, Augusta University, 2021
Award of Excellence (Faculty Micro Documentary Competition)
- The Broadcast Education Association-Festival of Media Arts, 2021
The BEA Best of Festival King Foundation Award (Faculty Documentary Competition)
- Broadcast Education Association-Festival of Media Arts, 2020
Award of Excellence (Faculty Micro Documentary Competition)
- Broadcast Education Association-Festival of Media Arts, 2020
Special Mention Award for Documentary Short, Austin Asian American Film Festival, 2019
Movies on a Shoestring Trophy, Rochester International Film Festival, 2019
Distinguished Faculty Award for Scholarship/Creative Expression, Malone University, 2019
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, 2018
- 10 finalists in the Best Mini Documentary competition (Academy Award Qualifying Category)
Best of Competition Award (Faculty Short Documentary Competition)
- Broadcast Education Association-Festival of Media Arts, 2018
Honored Educator, Malone University Football Team, 2018
ETHNOCINECA - International Documentary Film Festival Vienna, 2018
- Nominated for the International Shorts Award (ISA)
Honorable Mention for JEAN ROUCH Award,
- Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival, U.S.A. 2015
Adoor Gopalakrishnan Creative Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2015
Excellence Award, Community Media Foundation, South Korea, 2015
Chancellor’s Graduate Student Awards, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2014-2016
Special Award, 7th Evergreen International Short Film Festival, South Korea, 2013
IPSUN Award, 34th Workers Culture & Art Festival, South Korea, 2013
Grand Prize ($9,500) - 8th International Christian Film Festival, South Korea, 2012
Grand Prize - CTS Mission Documentary Festival, South Korea, 2011
Nominated 13th Yong-in Budding Short Writer Award, 2011
- My Cellular phone, Yong-in Literary Society, South Korea
Grants
Project Development Grant ($5,000), Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences, KSU 2023
First-Year Scholars Program ($4,000), Office of Undergraduate Research, Kennesaw State University, 2023
First-Year Scholars Program ($1,000), Office of Undergraduate Research, Kennesaw State University, 2022
Experiential Innovation Fund Grant ($1,890), Augusta University, 2021
Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Grant ($998), Augusta University, 2021
Pamplin Professional Impact Fund ($180), Augusta University, 2021
Research Scholarship & Creative Activity Grant ($19,520), Augusta University, 2021
Faculty Scholars Grant ($250), Human Research Protections Program, Malone University, 2020
Sebastopol Center for the Arts Travel Funds ($500), CA, USA, 2019
Summer Scholars Grant ($2,500), Malone University, 2018
Media Production Grant ($3.000), Jiguchon Welfare Foundation, South Korea, 2017
SCREENINGS
"About a Bowshot Away," Short Documentary 14minutes, U.S.A.
Atlanta Film Festival, 2024 (forthcoming)
(Academy Award Qualifying Category)
American Documentary and Animation Film Festival, 2024
(Academy Award Qualifying Category)
Jacksonville Film Festival, 2024
Broadcast Education Association - Festival of Media Arts, 2024
- Award of Excellence (Faculty Micro Documentary Competition)
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication - Festival of Visual & Interactive Media, 2024
- Gold Award (1st place), Video & Film Category
Rochester International Film Festival, 2024
- Honorable Mention
"Team Choi," Short Documentary, 8 minutes, U.S.A.
Atlanta Docufest (Atlanta International Documentary Festival), 2023
CAAM Fest (Center of Asian American Media), 2023
Houston Asian American Pacific Islander Film Festival, 2023
Peaberry Film Festival, 2023
"Red Noses," Short Documentary, 6 minutes, U.S.A.
Broadcast Education Association - Festival of Media Arts, 2022
- Award of Excellence (Faculty Micro Documentary Competition)
“The Brick House in the Wind.” Short Documentary, 9 minutes, U.S.A.
New Haven International Film Festival, 2021
Big Muddy Film Festival, 2021
Dayton Independent Film Festival, 2021
Short. Sweet. Film Fest, 2021
The Broadcast Education Association-Festival of Media Arts, 2021
- Award of Excellence (Faculty Micro Documentary Competition)
"Becoming Taylor," Short Documentary, 8 minutes, U.S.A.
Broadcast Education Association - Festival of Media Arts, 2020
- Award of Excellence (Faculty Micro Documentary Competition)
Columbus International Film & Animation Festival, 2020
Persons with Disabilities Film Festival (South Korea), 2020
"Written in Stone," Short Documentary, 18 minutes, U.S.A., South Korea,
Broadcast Education Association - Festival of Media Arts, 2020
- The Best of Festival King Foundation Award, 2020
American Documentary Film Festival (Academy Award Qualifying Category), 2019
Athens International Film and Video Festival, 2019
Rochester International Film Festival, 2019
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, 2019
Canton Film Festival (Finalist in Documentary Short Film), 2019
Austin Asian American Film Festival (Special Mention Award for Documentary Short), 2019
"Talk to My Son," Short Documentary, 14 minutes, U.S.A., South Korea,
Athens International Film and Video Festival, 2018
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (Academy Award Qualifying Category), 2018
- 10 finalists in the Best Mini Documentary competition
RiverRun International Film Festival (Academy Award Qualifying Category), 2018
Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts, 2018
- Best of Competition Award (Faculty Short Documentary Competition)
Columbus International Film & Video Festival, 2018
ETHNOCINECA - International Documentary Film Festival Vienna, 2018
- Nominated for the International Shorts Award (ISA)
Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival (117th AAA annual meeting), 2018
Wisconsin Film Festival, 2018
"The History of Intimacy," Short Documentary, 5 minutes, U.S.A.
Society for Applied Anthropology Film Festival (78th SFAA annual meeting), 2018
Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival (116th AAA annual meeting), 2017
Chagrin documentary film festival, 2016
Online Publication: Culturally Modified (https://culturallymodified.org/the-history-of-intimacy/)
"Quarry Kids," Feature Documentary, 60 minutes, South Korea, U.S.A.
University Film & Video Association 71th Conference, 2017
"Snow Bird" Experimental film, 6 minutes, U.S.A.
Greensboro Dance Film Festival, 2016
Milwaukee Short Film Festival, 2016
"Unfinished Legacy," Short Documentary, 18 minutes, U.S.A.
Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival (114th AAA annual meeting), 2015
- Honorable Mention for Jean Rouch Award
Wisconsin Film Festival, 2015
NYC Independent Film Festival, 2015
Korea Broadcasting System, 2015
"The Map of Maps," Short Documentary, 13 minutes, U.S.A.
Milwaukee Short Film Festival, 2015
Korea Broadcasting System, 2015
"Family," Short Documentary, 23 minutes, South Korea, Vietnam
Special Award - 7th Evergreen International Film Festival, 2013
"Kyrgyzstan of God," Short Documentary, 14 minutes, Kyrgyzstan
Grand Prize ($9,500) - 8th Christian International Film Festival, South Korea, 2012
"Yesterday and Today," Short Film, 12 minutes, South Korea
Persons with Disabilities Film Festival, 2011
"Tranchair," Short Documentary, 20 minutes, South Korea
Persons with Disabilities Film Festival, Korea Broadcasting System, 2012
"13th Children," Experimental Film, 4 minutes, South Korea,
Representative Videopoem of South Korea for ten years,
Seoul International New Media Festival, 2011
"The Poor And Life," Short Documentary, 31 minutes, India
Seoul Christian Film Festival, 2008
"By the Roadside," Short Film, 16 minutes, South Korea,
Daegu Independent Short Film Festival, 2008
PRESENTATION
Presentation - “Incorporating Artificial Intelligence Tools in Media Production Courses”
94th Annual Georgia Communication Association Conference, 2024
Interactive Workshop - “The Storyboarding Skills Inspiring Students”
93rd Annual Georgia Communication Association Conference, 2023
Workshop & Presentation – “Storyboard for Media Production”
Broadcast Education Association Annual Convention, 2023
PUBLICATIONS
"My little friend," (in Korean) 34th Workers Culture & Art Festival, South Korea
Screenplay - IPSUN Award in Short Screenplay, 2013
"Lake," Collection of essays, Bean and Tomato, South Korea
Short essay - Nominated 4th Military Literature Award, 2005
COURSE TAUGHT
Kennesaw State University, Fall 2023 - Present
COMM3340 – Digital Media Production
MENT4464 – Documentary Filmmaking
MENT4485 - Media Entertainment Capstone (In-person, Hybrid)
MENT4495 - Media Entertainment Study Tour
Augusta University, Fall 2021 – Spring 2022
COMM3030 – Audiovisual Production
COMM3120 – Television Production
COMM3320 – Digital Editing
COMM4300 – Visual Storytelling
Malone University, Fall 2016 – Spring 2021
COMM231 - Media Production I (In-person, Hybrid)
COMM240/ 340 - Applied Media / Film (In-person, Hybrid)
COMM270 – World Cinema (Online)
COMM374 – Editing (In-person, Hybrid)
COMM431 - Media Production II (In-person, Hybrid)
ART314 - Digital Photography (In-person, Hybrid)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Documentary filmmaker (Freelancer), Rod Pictures Corporation, South Korea, (2008-2013)
- Media Producer, Global Mission Church, South Korea, (2009-2014)
- Documentary in China and South Korea: Talk to my son, a project about North Korea refugee (2017)
- Documentary in Jordan: City of Refugees, refugees and a Christian (2014)
- Documentary in Vietnam: Family, a project about international marriage (2013)
- Photograph in Thai: published in Green Mind Magazine, South Korea (2013)
- Documentary in Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan of God, a local church and a Christian (2012)
- Documentary in the Philippines: Kopino, The story of Korean Pilipino (2011)
- Photograph in Israel & Palestine: Via Dolorosa, A regional conflict (2009)
- Documentary and photography in India: A child worker in south India (2008)
- Documentary in India: The poor and life, Poor children in East India (2006)
- Documentary and photography in Cambodia: Killing field, Medical services (2004)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Member, Georgia Communication Association (2022 - Present)
Member, Broadcast Education Association (2017 – Present)
Member, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) (2023-Present)
Member, University Film and Video Association (2016-2017)
SERVICE
Professional Service
-Festival Director, Board Member - Georgia Communication Association Film Festival
Georgia Communication Association, GA, U.S.A. 2023 - Present
-External Reviewer for faculty promotion, Fall 2023
School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology
-Festival Co-director - Georgia Communication Association Film Festival
Georgia Communication Association, GA, U.S.A. 2023
-BEA Student Documentary Judge
Broadcast Education Association-Festival of Media Arts, U.S.A. 2022
-BEA Student Documentary Judge
Broadcast Education Association-Festival of Media Arts, U.S.A. 2021
-BEA On-Location Creative Competition Judge
Broadcast Education Association, U.S.A. 2021
-BEA Student Documentary Judge
Broadcast Education Association-Festival of Media Arts, U.S.A. 2020
-Festival Director - Open Frame Film Festival
Department of CVPA, Malone University, OH, U.S.A. (Fall 2016 – Spring 2021)
-Media Equipment Room Manager
Department of CVPA, Malone University, OH, U.S.A. (Fall 2016 – Spring 2021)
Institutional Service
- Director, Kennesaw State University Film Festival, (Spring 2023 - Present)
- Advisor, MENT Club, Kennesaw State University, (Fall 2022 – Present)
- Committee, Georgia Film Academy Course Curriculum committee, KSU (Spring 2023 – Present)
- Hiring Committee, Department of Tech Comm. & Interactive Design, KSU (Spring 2023 – Present)
- Digital Media Production Committee, School of Communication & Media, KSU (Fall 2022 – Present)
- Advisor, MENT Club, Kennesaw State University, (Fall 2022 - Present)
- Advisor, Media Production Club, Augusta University, (Fall 2021 – Spring 2022)
- Advisor, Media Production Club, Malone University, (Fall 2019 – Spring 2021)
- Member, Academic Policy Committee, Malone University, (Fall 2020 – Spring 2021)
- Member, Committee on Organization, Malone University, (Fall 2018 - Spring 2021)
- Distinguished Faculty Award Committee, Malone University, (Spring 2020)
- Presenter, Micah Six: Eight Faculty Arts Series, Malone University, (Fall 2019)
- Hiring Committee - Graphic Design and Digital Art, Malone University, (Fall 2017 - Spring 2018)