Seungkwon You completed his master’s degree and Ph.D. in political science at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the director of the Global Leadership Program at the Asian Affairs Center, which hosts more than 70 Asian professionals, including Koreans, Chinese, Thais, and Vietnamese. Additionally, he is an associate teaching professor for the Korean Studies Program and the director of the Institute for Korean Studies at MU, and has been teaching courses on Korean society through cinema and U.S.-Korean relations for the past 20 years.