Kor	Ph.D. Research Notes

General Overview

Skills –

Construction & Operation Management of Information Systems
Writing Business Plans & Various Reports
Requirement Specification via Requirement Collection & Analysis
Project Management Office (PMO) for IT Projects
IT Project Consulting

Areas of Expertise –

Information System Planning, Design, Construction, and Project Management
Internal IT Consulting
Cooperation with External Agencies regarding Informatics
Personal Information Protection (Privacy)
Institutional Data Management

Current Role –

Establishment of Data Policy & Data Analysis for the Affiliated Institution

Univ. of Alberta

Visiting Scholar, Digital Scholarship Centre (2026. 9. 1. ~ 2027. 5. 31.)

Korea Heritage Agency (formerly Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation)

Key Responsibilities –

Building AI-ready data infrastructure for national heritage
Analyzing the institution’s IT status to set mid-to-long-term directions and establish budget plans.
Analyzing internal IT requirements and coordinating opinions.
Functional analysis and design of individual systems.
Calculating development costs for target systems and drafting RFPs (Request for Proposal) / Task Instructions.

Information System Projects –

2026: Design of the Intelligent National Heritage Copyright Management System
2022 - 2023: General Manager for the Cheong Wa Dae (Blue House) Opening Online System
2023: General Manager for Phase 1 Construction of the Data Management Business System
2021: General Manager for Korea House Sales Support System Construction
2021: General Manager for Data Management System Establishment Research ISP (Information Strategy Planning)
2020: Supervisor for the Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation Integrated Website Construction (Head of Integrated Construction Team)
2019: General Manager for Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation ICT Status Analysis & Direction Consulting
2019: Planning for the Cultural Heritage Channel Website
2018: Design & Supervision of Online Broadcasting System (OTT) Construction
2018: Supervision of Groupware (Electronic Document) Improvement Project
2018: Planning & Supervision of Integrated DBMS System Introduction
2017: Supervision of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) System Introduction
2016: Planning & Supervision of Information Security Control System Construction
2015: Support for POS System / Logistics Management (SCM) System Development
2015: Supervision of UCI-based Video Segmentation System (Directly attracted investment from the Korea Copyright Commission)
2014: Design & Supervision of UCI-based Copyright Management System
2012: Support for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) System Development
2011: Supervision of ‘Tales of Changdeokgung’ App Development
2009 - 2010: Operator for Store Management System (POS)

IT Planning Roles –

(Former) Manager of Pan-Government EA (Enterprise Architecture) for the Korea Heritage Agency
(Former) Manager of Public Data for the Korea Heritage Agency
(Former) Manager of Personal Information Protection for the Korea Heritage Agency
2020: Design Support for the Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation Records Management System
2018: Establishment of In-house Mid-to-Long-term Information Strategy Planning (ISP)
2017: Manager for Cloud Transition Consulting (Supported by NIA)
2014: Design of Content Management Framework & Business Processes for the Copyright Management System

External Liaison Projects –

2015: Cooperation on Coupang/Konest Tourism Products and Content Linkage
2015: Presented UCI Introduction Case Study at the Copyright Commission Workshop
2014: Registration as a UCI Issuing Agency in the Cultural Heritage Sector (Korea Copyright Commission)
2014: Culturing Content Linkage (Korea Creative Content Agency)
2014: Pursued Broadcasting Agreements with EBS, Welfare TV, Arirang TV, etc.
2014: Launched Apple TV Real-time Broadcasting Service
2013: Managed Royal Copenhagen MOU

Other Experiences –

Reviewer & Advisor for Public Institution Informatics Projects
2015: Interviewer for Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation Website Manager Recruitment
2015: General Manager of the Cultural Heritage Exhibition Booth for State Guests at the UNESCO World Education Forum (Cooperation with the Ministry of Education)
2014: Manager for the Cultural Heritage Administration Heritage Channel Acquisition
2013: Managed Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation University Student Reporter Corps (Online Channel Promotion)
2013: Planned & Managed Starbucks Sponsored ‘Five Senses K-Heritage’ Experience Event (Cooperation with Starbucks)
2012: General Manager for Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation Promotional Video Production

Public IT Project Review Activities –

Review Committee Member for Public Procurement Service (PPS) General Services
Review Committee Member for KISA (Korea Internet & Security Agency)
Review Committee Member for NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency)
Review Committee Member for IITP (Institute for Information & communication Technology Planning & evaluation)
Review Activities for Public Institution IT Projects

Previous Experience

Online Service Operation Management (PM) –

(2008 - 2009) Brenex (u-Health Division)

Database Service Development –

(2007 - 2008) Freelance Developer, Yul System

Embedded System Development –

(2004 - 2007) Valtech, Citicom (Spun off from Turbotech)

Direct X Program Development –

(2002 - 2004) Freelance Developer

Others

Awards –

(Minister of Science and ICT Award) 2022 First Half SW Business Excellent Orderer

Education –

The Academy of Korean Studies (AKS)

Ph.D. Candidate (Coursework Completed) - Humanities Informatics
2024 - Coursework Completed
Digital Humanities

Kwangwoon University, Graduate School

M.S. - Computer Engineering
2002 - 2004
MPEG-7
ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems)
Digital Content Database

Namseoul University

B.S. - Computer Science
1996 - 2002
Representative of Startup Club ‘A-SHELL’

Books –

Publications (Papers) –

KNoTE (Korean Novel TEI Encoded) Dataset (Park, Seonyeong et al., 2026)

Korean novels encoded following the TEI P5 guidelines, with detailed metadata, character descriptions, Hanja/Hangul variations, and semantic tagging
Data: Zenodo, doi:10.5281/zenodo.18835058

The Imagination of the Border, Opening the Future of K-Content: A Study on the Korean Studies Imagination of Diaspora in ｢K-Pop Demon Hunters｣ (Jo, Gyungmin)

Journal: Diaspora Studies Vol. 19, No. 2 (Issue 38), pp. 164~199

Analyzing Audience Responses to K-Heritage Channel Video Content Using Text Mining: Focusing on YouTube Comments (Jo, Gyungmin)

Journal: Media Convergence Research Issue 38, pp. 7~50

A Study on Vehicle Queue Measurement Using Region-Based Image Processing (Chu, Yeon-woong; Jo, Gyungmin; Choi, Ki-ho)

Presented At: The Korea Institute of ITS
Conference: 2002 1st Regular General Meeting & Conference

A Study on Moving Vehicle Segmentation and Tracking Using Logic Operations (Jo, Gyungmin; Choi, Ki-ho)

Presented At: Korea Multimedia Society
Conference: 2004 Spring Conference Proceedings

A Study on Moving Vehicle Segmentation and Tracking Using Logic Operations (Jo, Gyungmin)

Thesis: Master’s Thesis, Department of Computer Engineering, Kwangwoon University

Certifications –

Engineer Information Processing (Human Resources Development Service of Korea)
Information System Auditor

GitHub Projects

D-CENT (Digital Contextualized Entity & Narrative Technology)

Language: Python, PHP
Description: A RAG-based research framework that links March First Movement records through PostgreSQL, TEI, CIDOC-CRM, and Neo4j, and reconstructs a dated narrative of incidents for each question, with citations to the records.
Key Features:
- Data build pipeline: source files → PostgreSQL/TEI → Neo4j (CIDOC-CRM) graph, with person-name tagging, biographical dictionary links, and the Korean History Thesaurus
- Web docent: graph view, Text-to-Cypher, hybrid record retrieval (BM25 + dense + cross-encoder), LLM narrative generation
- Evaluation: benchmark, system comparison, expert validation
GitHub: tsarkr/D-CENT
Site: https://gyungmin.tsar.kr/D-CENT/

Darkstar: Professional OWL 2 RL Ontology Editor

Language: Rust
Description: A Rust-based OWL 2 RL ontology editor and inference engine (a Protégé alternative) with SPARQL/DL queries, inference explanations, dynamic plugins, and graph visualization.
Key Features:
- Reasoning engine: OWL 2 RL parallel forward-chaining powered by Rayon, with inference justification
- Graph visualization: Force-Directed, Hierarchical, Radial, Circular, Concentric, and Grid layouts
- SPARQL 1.1 and Manchester Syntax DL query support
- Turtle / RDF/XML / N-Triples I/O, owl:imports resolution, undo/redo
GitHub: tsarkr/darkstar
Site: https://gyungmin.tsar.kr/darkstar/

Hexedit

Language: TypeScript (React, Vite)
Description: A web-based hexadecimal editor and binary inspection tool that runs in the browser
GitHub: tsarkr/hexedit
Site: https://gyungmin.tsar.kr/hexedit/

K-pop Demon Hunters (K-D-H) Comment Analysis

Language: Python
Description: Tools that collect YouTube playlist comments and analyze and visualize fandom reactions; used for the analysis in the paper on ｢K-Pop Demon Hunters｣.
Key Features: YouTube Data API comment collection, VADER sentiment analysis, keyword co-occurrence network (GEXF), BERTopic topic modeling
GitHub: tsarkr/K-D-H

K-Heritage Comment Analysis

Language: Python
Description: Collects YouTube comments from the K-heritage.tv channel and analyzes audience reception with text mining; used for the paper on K-Heritage Channel audience responses.
GitHub: tsarkr/k-heritage

KCI Scrape

Language: Python
Description: Collects Korean Citation Index (KCI) paper data and analyzes research trends and co-authorship networks by period in the field of “cultural heritage curation”
GitHub: tsarkr/kci_scrape

RedditGo

Language: Jupyter Notebook, Python
Description: Compares sentiment before and after COVID-19 in Reddit posts and comments about Korea, China, and Japan, using seven-emotion classification, BERTopic topic modeling, and TF-IDF keyword extraction.
GitHub: tsarkr/redditgo

Shortener 11e

Language: PHP
Description: A PHP-based URL shortening service with QR code generation, running at 11e.kr.
GitHub: tsarkr/shortener_11e