GIST College Professor Hyugbaeg Im won the 2017 ICAS Book Prize

□ GIST College Professor Hyugbaeg Im's book Simultaneity of Non-Simultaneous: Multiple Temporalities of Modern Korean Politics was selected as the 2017 International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Book Award for the English Language Division.

∘ Professor Hyugbaeg Im studied one hundred years of the political and social history of modern Korea from the Japanese colonial period in the early 20th century to the Lee Myung-bak government in the early 21st century. In particular, this book pays attention to aspects of Korean politics that are not easily explained by any single framework of feudality, pre-modernity, or modernity, and tries to capture the complexity with Ernst Bloch’s concept of the simultaneity of the non-simultaneous. Professor Im's book was also selected as an excellent academic book of the Korean Academy of Sciences in 2014.

∘ Professor Hyugbaeg Im received his master's degree and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. He also served as a professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Ewha Womans University, as a visiting professor at Georgetown University and Duke University, and as a professor at Korea University. He was also a member of the Presidential Advisory Policy Planning Committee in 1998 and served as the President of the Political Reform Research Department in the Presidential Acquisition Committee in 2003.

□ The ICAS Book Award was launched in 2004 to popularize global interest in Asian-related academic publications. The Institute of Asian Studies at Seoul National University reviews and selects books for the ICAS Book Awards and has selected and awarded outstanding academic books published in Korean between August 2014 and October 2016.