Since entering the M.A. program in Science Studies at Jeonbuk National University in March 2022, I have focused on Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the history of modern science and technology in Korea, with particular interest in issues of intellectual property such as copyright and patents. My first research project examined the Korean government’s efforts and their implications in promoting the intrauterine device Lippes Loop, mass-produced as part of the national family planning program in the 1960s. This study was presented at the 5th Workshop on the History of Modern Science in Korea (2023) and the 2023 JBNU Science Research Fair, and was subsequently published in Yonsei Journal of Medical History, Vol. 26, No. 1 (2023).

Building on this work, my interest in patents extended into the field of information and communication technology. I identified unauthorized reproduction of software as a major issue in the 1980s and 1990s, and accordingly completed a master’s thesis analyzing the formation of software protection policies in Korea during the 1980s as a case study of how reproduction culture unfolded in the software sector. The findings of this research were presented at the 2025 Spring Conference of the Korean History of Science Society.

In August 2025, I received my M.Sc. in Science Studies from Jeonbuk National University and was awarded a graduate scholarship by the JBNU Alumni Association in recognition of my original research achievements. In September of the same year, I entered the doctoral program at the same university. For my Ph.D. research, I plan to examine the educational software industry in Korea during the 1980s and 1990s—a sector where unauthorized software reproduction was tolerated at the national level—by analyzing the software development activities of teachers and students who participated both as users and as developers.