An Analysis of Terminated NSF and NIH Grants
Noam Ross from rOpenSci and Scott Delaney from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have compiled two excellent datasets on terminated NIH and NSF grants .
[Research Development] Analyzing Past Awards using R
At James Madison University’s Office of Research Development, one of my responsibilities is analyzing past awards data for grants that our faculty is interested in. This is…
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[Research Development] Extracting Past Awarded Grants Data from the Internet
NSF publishes its past awards data in a structured format that you can download and analyze. However, other funding agencies or foundations may not provide such data. Here…
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South and North Korea's Diplomatic Ties
South Korea established diplomatic ties with Syria today Apr 10, 2025, following establishing diplomatic ties with Cuba last year on (Feb 14, 2024). Establishing diplomatic…
Alien of Extraordinary Ability in Washington, D.C.
Exciting news to share — I’m now a Green Card holder under the EB1 “Alien of Extraordinary Ability” category!
Tips for Applying for the Global Korea Scholarship
Today, I reviewed Global Korea Scholarship (GKS) applicants’ admission documents for the last time. (after 7 years!)
Exploring Korean Trade Data on `kdiplo` R Package
Since the foundation of the Republic of Korea in 1948, the economy has been one of the two pillars of Korean diplomacy, alongside security.1 Indeed, the country’s trade has…
Working with Korean Diplomatic Datasets
In my research, I often work with country-year data from Korean sources, including data on diplomatic visits, trade, aid and so on. One of the fundamental difficulties I…
5 Panels, 2 Papers, 1 Award: Another Busy ISA #ISA2024
International Studies Association’s (ISA) annual congress is my favorite conference. On the one hand, it is the largest international studies conference. On the other hand…
`kdata`: Korean Culture, Business, and Education Data
I love Korea, and I love data.
`kdiplo`: A One-Stop Public Repository for Datasets on Korean Diplomacy
I love Korea, and I love data.
All Korean Festivals in 2023: Geolocations and More
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Annotated Resources for My Students
Students often ask similar questions. Previously, I would search my e-mail archives for answers I had provided to other students and forward those responses to any student…
Countering Russian Influence through Public Diplomacy
Do you want to know where the US has been focusing its public diplomacy efforts?
Extracting data from a complicated pdf file
I was helping a Ph.D. student on her paper on China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI). So far, I have been using the OFDI data she gave me only to realize that some…
Galatasaray Squad Guesses for the 2023-2024 Season
I was writing down my guesses for the Galatasaray squads before the games to see how much of the first 11 I get right. Then I decided to do it until the end of the season…
Visuzalization of 2023 Turkish Presidential Elections Results
Disclaimer: The data here are not official (YSK has not published the official results yet as of 18 May 2023), and may be inaccurate (most noticeably overseas votes are not…
Korean Diplomatic Missions Abroad
This is a simple blog post with visualization of Korean diplomatic missions abroad. I will add more details later.
Overseas Koreans in Each Country: 2015-2021
This is a simple blog post with visualization of Overseas Koreans abroad.
A Conversation on Methodological Approaches to Public Diplomacy
This blog post was originally published on the USC Center on Public Diplomacy’s Blog on October 10, 2022.
This blog post was originally published on the USC Center on Public Diplomacy’s Blog on March 23, 2020.
A Typology of People-to-People Diplomacy
This blog post was originally published on the USC Center on Public Diplomacy’s Blog on March 12, 2020.
Let’s Delineate the Boundaries of Public Diplomacy
This blog post was originally published on the USC Center on Public Diplomacy’s Blog on March 11, 2019.
Inter-Korean People-to-people Diplomacy
This blog post was originally published on the USC Center on Public Diplomacy’s Blog on February 5, 2018.
