Sung Soo Hong is a professor at Sookmyung Women’s University. His main areas of research are jurisprudence, socio-legal studies, and human rights law, and he has recently studied the issues of human rights, discrimination, hate speech, and hate crimes. He has focused on the role of law in these areas. His recent Korean publications include Reason in Law: Understanding Law with Films (2019), Human Rights Systems and Institutions (with Kim and Park, 2018), and When Words Hurt: What is Hate Speech (2018), which has been translated into Japanese (『ヘイトをとめるレッスン』). His most recent English publication is “Discovering diversity: the anti-iscrimination legislation movement in South Korea”(co-author with Jihye Kim), in Rights Claiming in South Korea (2021).
In 2008, he received a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics (LSE) for research on national human rights institutions and was a visiting scholar at The George Washington University Institute for Korean Studies, the Human Rights Consortium University of London, the Center for Socio-Legal Studies University of Oxford, and the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Spain). He has served on various advisory boards of public authorities in Korea, including the Ministry of Justice, the National Police Agency, the Ministry of National Defense, the National Assembly, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the Korea Communications Standards Commission, the Seoul Metropolitan Government, and the National Human Rights Commission of Korea. He has also served as a commissioner or advisor to human rights NGOs in Korea such as the Rainbow Foundation, the Catholic Human Rights Commission, the Korea Human Rights Foundation, and the Center for Military Human Rights.
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