Han Woo Park () is a Korean academic and professor at the Department of Media and Communications, Yeungnam University.Yeungnam University. 2021. “박한우 | 언론정보학과” Accessed December 18, 2022. . Academic career Park graduated from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, and completed post-graduate work at Seoul National University, South Korea. He received his doctorate from State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. Later he joined the Royal Academy of the Netherlands and the Oxford Internet Institute.
Han Woo Park is one of South Korea's most highly cited social science scholars.Research.com. 2023. “Han Woo Park: H-Index and Awards - Academic Profile | Research.com” Accessed December 18, 2022. . He is recognized as a pioneer in Webometrics and an expert on Internet activism in South Korea.SAGE Publications. 2014. “An exploratory approach to a Twitter-based community centered on a political goal in South Korea: Who organized it, what they shared, and how they acted” Accessed January 13, 2023. . He is also the chair of the Korea organizing committee for Internet Research 15 (IR15). Park has frequently shared his insights in national and international media, including AJP, Turkish news agency Anadolu and Singapore's CNA 938, covering topics such as AI and its fair use, society, politics, election, and BTS. His research mainly focuses on online media and biggish data in academic, governmental, and business communications.Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. 2022. “Prof. Dr. Han Woo Park - #ACPC2022” Accessed December 18, 2022. . In a recent study, Park shows how blockchain prediction markets shaped global engagement during Korea's 2024 impeachment events., which is the first real-world example of what researchers call “cryptocurrency democracy". He is currently Editor in Chief of Quality & Quantity and the Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia.World Association of Triple-helix and Future Studies (WATEF) and Yeungnam University. 2023. “Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia” Accessed January 13, 2023. .
Park was elected as International Communication Association (ICA)'s Distinguished Fellow in 2023. He is also the founder of World Association for Triple Helix & Future Strategy Studies (WATEF).
Park has been co-awarded for the best paper in EPI-SCImago in 2016 and included in the list of core candidates of the Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal since 2017.
Park is a editor-in-chief of Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia, Quality & Quantity, ROSA Journal, and founder of the Data, Innovation, Social networks, Convergence (DISC) International Conference.
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