Dr. Hojye Kang (hojye.kang [at ]fu-berlin.de) is dedicated to research and education on North Korea at the Institute of Korean Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. With a background in both physics and history, Kang approaches North Korean studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. Kang's work involves analyzing North Korea’s strategies in fields that require scientific and technological expertise, such as innovation, economy, and defense science, while examining their historical context and long-term developments.
Kang is rewriting the history of North Korea, viewing it not merely as a series of power struggles but as a process of building and refining the national system. In recent years, Kang has focused on North Korea’s regional innovation system.

Kang’s publications include:
• 북한과학기술형성사I [History of Science and Technology in North Korea, Volume I] (Sunin, 2007).
• “Research on North Korea: An Analysis of Doctoral Theses Registered in the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Database,” Korea Europe Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Politics, Society, and Economics, No. 1 (February 2021), https://www.korea-europe-review.org/index.php/ker/article/view/8.
• “Company-Level Technological Innovation in DPR Korea: Focusing on Kumkhop General Foodstuff Factory for Sportspeople,” The Korean Journal for the History of Science, Volume 44, No. 2 (August 2022), pp. 321–338, https://doi.org/10.36092/KJHS.2022.44.2.321.
• “생존의 수단이자 번영의 수단, 북한의 과학기술 [Science and Technology as a Means of Survival and Prosperity in DPRK],” Hwang Hae Review, No. 118 (2023), pp. 205-223.