Hailing from Seoul, South Korea, he earned his Ph.D. in Media Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He was the recipient of the UT-Austin’s named/endowed continuing fellowship, one of the most prestigious fellowships at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.A. in Law and M.A. in Journalism History/Policy and Law from Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea. He also earned his second M.A. in Media Studies from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Before joining the faculty of Howard University, he worked for Shinhan Bank in South Korea, the Technology and Information Policy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, and the American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy in Washington, D.C.