Conference Papers (in panel or independently):

• "Weaving a Global P'ansori," at 6th PACKS Conference, Seoul National University, June 19, 2002.
• "In Search of the Korean Voice in Korean Theater," at the 26th Comparative Drama Conference, Ohio State University, April 27, 2002.
• "Contextualizing the Spiritual Folklore in Modernity," in the 2002 Association for Asian Studies Conference, Washington DC, April 5, 2002.
• "Abroad, and Koreans' Journeys in the 20th Century Korean and Korean-American Literature." At Modern Language Association, New Orleans, December 27, 2001.
• "P'ansori in Ch'anggûk: Unfolding Strawmat on Proscenium," At the 25th Comparative Drama Conference, Ohio State University, April 29, 2001.
• "Between Praying and Playing: Where Shaman Song and P'ansori Diverge," revised for Musical Ethnography of Tungus-Manchurian Peoples, Yakutsk, Aug 17-23, 2000.
• "Task-Based Teaching of Culture," Plenary talk at the 5th Annual American Association of Teachers of Korean, UCLA, Aug 3, 2000.
• "Going Local with P’ansori: Hawaii as Subject of Study," in The Korean Experience in Hawai’i, January 15, 2000.
• "Korean Language and Culture Studies in the U.S. Today," in "Workshop on Performative Perspectives for East Asian Language Pedagogy," The Ohio State University, July 29-30^th, 1999.
• ""Inside, Outside, and In-between Korean Music," in "Going Native": Recruitment, Conversion, and Identification in Cultural Research," The Ohio State University, May 19-21^st, 1999.
• "Parallel Narrativity in Korean kut and p’ansori: Framing the Sacred in Global Context," in 1998 American Folklore Conference, Portland, Oregon, Oct 29, 1998.
• "Globalizing the Aesthetics of Korean," the 5th Koryô Hakhoe Korean Studies Conference, Osaka, Aug 8-11, 1997.
• "The Scope of Literature in Korean Culture Classroom," the 3rd AATK Conference, Tempe, Arizona, Aug 1-5, 1997
• "Translation and Transmission of P’ansori in Global Era," the 3rd Korean Studies Conference, Kyemyông University, Taegu, June 27, 1997.
• "Korean Traditional Culture in the Classrooms," the 3rd Advisory Members’ Colloquium for Committee for SAT II Korean, Chicago, April 4, 1997.
• "Entering the Aesthetics of Foreign Language as Oral Performance," Interdisciplinary panel, Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, March 16, 1997.
• "Reconciling the Audience in the Shifting Context of P’ansori Performance," Chinoperl Conference, Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, March 13, 1997.
• "Promoting the Performance Culture of Korea Abroad," the 2nd Advisory Members’ Colloquium for Committee for SAT II Korean, Los Angeles, October 25, 1996.
• "Creating the P’ansori Metatext for the International Audience," American Folklore Conference, Pittsburgh, 1996.
• "Issues and Approaches in Teaching the Korean Performance Tradition in the Context of East Asian Studies," 2nd AATK Conference, Los Angeles, July 23, 1996.
• "Why Recitative, Instead of Just Speaking or Singing in P’ansori Storytelling?" 3rd PACKS Conference, University of Sydney, July 4, 1996.
• "Creating the P’ansori Metatext for the International Audience," The Ohio State University, April 12, 1996.
• "Images of Death in the Korean Arts" for "Conference on Living and Dying in Buddhist Cultures," University of Hawaii at Manoa, Summer Session 1995.
• "The Multiple Voices of Aniri, the Spoken Narrative Passages in P’ansori," The Ohio State University, July 3, 1995.
• "Sukchong’s Triangle: The Politics of Passion," University of Hawaii, 1995.
• "P’ansori: Korean Narrative in Orality" for University of British Columbia Research Seminar, March 18, 1994.
• "Madangguk: Theatre Aesthetics and Political Radicalism" for Monthly Graduate Seminar on Korean Studies, University of Hawaii Center for Korean Studies, February  25, 1993.
• "Performance of P’ansori and Ch'anggûk in Translation" for International Korean Literature Association annual meeting, University of Hawaii Center for Korean Studies, December 10-13, 1992.
• "For Creative Evolution of Ch’angguk," on Ch'anggûk ‘Song of Shim Ch’ong’," National Theatre, Seoul, July 5, 1989.

Lectures:

• "Relationship between language and music in Korean oral tradition," guest lecture for World Music for Major Class, OSU School of music, October 2, 2002.
• "Modern Korean Literature: Teaching East Asian Literature in the High School Summer Workshop 2002," East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University, July 24, 2002.
• "P'ansori Practice in a Crosscultural Context," in "Seminar on Teaching About Asia for Social Studies and Humanities Teachers, Grades 6-12," East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University, April 24, 2002.
• "Oral Memory, and Koreans' Poetic Journey into Modernity," University of British Columbia, March 5, 2002.
• "Accommodating Traditional Performances in Modern Theater," The Korean National University of Arts, September 5, 2001.
• "Modern Korean Literature: Teaching East Asian Literature in the High School Summer Workshop 2001," East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University, July 13, 2001.
• "P'ansori Practice in an Interdisciplinary Context," in The Workshop on Korean Music for Musicologist Abroad, June 3-30, 2001, Seoul, Korea, Co-hosted by The Korea Foundation and The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts, June 22, 2001.
• "Synthesizing Orality and Literacy in P'ansori Singing." Center for Korean Studies Lecture Series, University of Hawaii, September 5, 2000.
• "On P'ansori and Salp'uri" in "Japan, China, Korea, and the United States: Theatre Across teh Borders," Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 17, 2000.
• "Korean Oral Narrative Tradition," in "Comparative Studies in East Asian Performances," New York Korea Society, January 5, 2000.
• "Korean Culture Then and Now," in "1998 Midfest," Middletown, Ohio, September 14th, 1998.
• "Vocal Music of Korea," lecture and workshop, North Carolina State University, Nov 4, 1997.
• "Survey of Korean Oral Narrative and Vocal Musical Tradition," Davidson College Music Department, Nov 3, 1997.
• "Survey of Korean Performance Tradition," Korea University Korean Studies Workshop for overseas scholars, sponsored by Korea Foundation, Seoul, July 1, 1997.
• "Survey of Korean Traditional Performance Culture," The University of Michigan Korean Studies Program, Feb 20, 1997.
• "Cross-Cultural Challenges in Korean-American Business Practices," for Chungnam National University Overseas R & D Management Program at The Ohio State University, Jan 20, 1997.
• "Korean Dance, Then and Now," The Dept. of Dance, OSU, May 23, 1996.
• "Introduction to Korean Literary and Oral Narrative Tradition," guest lecturer for EALL 131, The Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures, OSU, Jan 10, 1996.
• "Cultural Awareness Workshops," Korean Consultant, Department of Human Services, State of Hawaii, Honolulu (Dec. 9, 1992, Jan. 28, 1993, March 10, 1993), Maui (May 3, 1993), Kauai (May 11, 1993), Kona (May 18, 1993).
• "Gender in P’ansori Performance" for University of Hawaii Graduate Seminar on Gender in Asian Pacific Theatre, April 13, 1993.
• "P’ansori," Lecture/demonstration of its muscial/vocal structure, East West Center Cultural Workshop, October 21, 1991.

Seminars:

• "Bridging literary scholarship and translation in performance: Staging p'ansori translationally," University of British Columbia, March 4, 2002.
• "Between Praying and Playing: Where Shaman Song and P’ansori Diverge," University of California, Berkeley, February 16, 2000.
• Commentator for Judy Van Zile's "Ch’oe Sûnghûi: Korean Dancer in America," Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai’I, September 2, 1998.
• "Images of Death in Korean Ritual and Performance Tradition," President’s Lecture Series, University of Montana, April 13, 1998.
• "P’ansori and Korean Musical Tradition," Oberlin College, February 21, 1998.
• "Tradition and Innovation in P’ansori Performance," Korean Music and Culture Seminar, Duke University, Nov 4, 1997
• "The Function and the Goal of Teaching Korean Language and Culture in America," The All Ohio Korean-American Community School Teachers Seminar, Columbus, October 25, 1997.
• "Introduction to P’ansori: Korean Vocal Narrative" for Seminar in World Music at Kapiolani Community College, University of Hawaii, October 10, 1994.
• "P’ansori: Korean Vocal Narrative" for East Asian Languages and Literatures Weekly Seminar, University of Hawaii, April 28, 1994.
• "Perspectives on East Asian Language Teaching at UH," Graduate Student Teacher Panelist, East Asian Languages and Literatures Weekly Seminar, University of Hawaii, April 7, 1994.

Panel discussions:

• Arirang: Korean Journey to America, Focus on Korea,at Hawaii International Film Festival, Honolulu Museum of Arts, November 3, 2002.
• "Buddhist Women and Global Society," at The 7th Sakyakhita World Buddhist Women's Conference, Huafan University, Taiwan, July 15, 2002.
• "A Testimony of the mass Rape and Sexual Enslavement of Women and Girls," hosted by Thge Ohio State University Korean Student Association and The Washington Coalition for Comfort Women, Ohio State University, March 8, 2002.
• "Coloring the Academy," hosted by APAC, Ohio State University, February 19, 2002.
• "Korean Music," The George Washington University 2001 Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities, Co-hosted by The Korean Cultural Service, Korean Embassy, October 20, 2001.
• Organized and chaired "Performing Traditions in East Asia and Transnationally," 25th Comparative Theater Conference, Ohio State University, April 28, 2001.
• "Endangered Languages," & "Poetry Across Languages," People's Poetry Gathering, New York, March 31, 2001.
• "Folklore, Public Policy, and the Socialist State," AFS 2000.
• "Teaching East Asian Folklore Traditions," American Folklore Conference 2000, Columbus.
• "Performing Korea," in "Korean Culture Goes Global," Intercultural Institute of San Francisco, May 26, 2000.
• "Roundtable on Asian American Arts and Performance," in "Re-Searching Asian American Studies: Critical Issues for the 21^st Century," University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 24, 1998.
• Roundtable discussion of "Performance and Subjectivity," OSU Folklore Symposium, March 10, 1997.
• "P’ansori Performed, in English," The 19th Conference of American Literary Translators’ Association, Indiana University, Bloomington, November 9, 1996.

Lecture/Performance:

• "P'ansori, Theory and Practice," University of Gerogia's Umlaut Comparative Literature Graduate Seminar, April 12, 2002.
• "Story of Hûngbu and Korean Culture," Hunter College High School, Brooklyn Tech High School, Stuyvesant High School, Martin Van Buren High School, Martin Luther King Junior High School, New York City Korea Society Special Lecture Series, March 12-16, 2001.
• "P'ansori: Song of the Underwater Palace," part of Musical Ethnography of Tungus-Manchurian Peoples, Yakutsk, Aug 21, 2000.
• "Narrating an oral tradition, performatively and pedagogically," "Berkeley's Working Group on Orality and Ethnic Identity," UC Berkeley, April 10, 2000.
• "Where Women's Spirituality and Performative Expressions Encounter," Women's Studies, CalPoly, April 28, 2000.
• "P'ansori Uncensored, Transnationally," in "Korean Women Uncensored... Uncensor Yourself," Smith College, April 8, 2000.
• "Song of Shim Ch’ông, Mistress of the Spiritual Domain," The Annual Lecture Series of Korean Studies, Korean Studies at Arizona State University Department of Languages and Literatures, co-sponsored by the Korean Culture in Los Angeles, February 21, 2000.
• "Shim Ch’ông, Mistress of the Spiritual Domain," Korean studies colloquium, University of British Columbia, Nov 12, 1999.
• "Voices from the Strawmat: Toward the Ethnography of P’ansori Performance," for the "Graduate Colloquia in Ethnomusicology," Dept. of Music, U.C., Berkeley, October 1, 1999.
• "Life, Death, and Resurrection of Shim Ch’ông: Mistress of the Spiritual Domain," Center for Korean Studies, U.C., Berkeley, September 21, 1999.
• "Oral Tradition in Transnational Context," in "Korean Folk Music Engages the Modern World: A Symposium and Free Public Concert," U.C., Berkeley, May 1, 1999
• "Across Bridges of Masks and Song" Dance and Music of Korea," in "Outsider/Insider" Asian American Journeys," University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 24^th, 1998.
• "Encountering the Korean Musical and Narrative Tradition," a talk/demo at OSU, October 22, 1998.
• Keynote Perfomance of "Performance as Healing: Celebrating Life with Korean Music," in 1998 Mansfield Conference "The Healing Arts in American and Asian Cultures: A Conference on Living and Dying Well", University of Montana, October 20^th, 1998.
• "P’ansori, Performance and Commentary," President’s Lecture Series, University of Montana, April 13, 1998.
• "P’ansori, Korean Storytelling," Oberlin College, February 21, 1998
• "P’ansori in the Context of Korean Culture," reflected in the excerpts from "The Song of Hûngbu," Honor Scholars’ Forum, North Carolina State University, Nov 3-4, 1997.
• "P’ansori, The Song of Hûngbu," The Davidson College, Nov 2, 1997.
• "Sampling the essence of Korean Performance Tradition," Korea University Korean Studies Workshop sponsored by Korea Foundation, Seoul, July 1, 1997.
• "P’ansori" (Performance and Commentary), Duke University Institute of the Arts and Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, April 11, 1997.
• "Teaching Culture through the Performance of P’ansori in the Korean-American Communities," Chicago, April 5, 1997.
• "Lecture and Performance of P’ansori," University of Buffalo, Asian Studies and Korean Language and Culture Program, March 27, 1997.
• "Creating the Performance of English Metatext of P’ansori with The song of Hûngbu," The University of Michigan Korean Studies Program, Winter 1997 Colloquium Series, Feb 19, 1997.
• "Creating the Interpretive Performance of The Song of Hungbu," Kyemyong-Baylo University, Los Angeles, October 26, 1996.
• "Theory and Practice of Creating the P’ansori Metatext of The Song of Hûngbu," University of California at Berkeley, October 4, 1996.
• "P’ansori lecture/demonstration at "Teaching About Korea," sponsored by South Atlantic States Association for Asian and African Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, September 27, 1996.
• "Traditional Korean Storytelling," Folklore Festival, OSU, April 11, 1996.
• "Exploring the Delights of Korean Musical and Narrative Traditions," performance of komun’go and p’ansori performance, University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 2, 1995.
• "Exploring the Delights of Korean Musical and Narrative Traditions," performance of komun’go and p’ansori performance, The Ohio State University, November 30, 1995.
• "Images of Death in the Korean Arts" for "Conference on Living and Dying in Buddhist Cultures," University of Hawaii at Manoa, June 10, 1995.

Performance:

• "Story of Hûngbu," Illinois State University & University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, February 1-2, 2002.
• "Story of Hûngbu," in Dr. Philip Jaisohn Memorial Ceremony, Plays and Players Theater, Philidelphia, December 1, 2001
• "Story of Hûngbu," Honolulu Academy of Arts, June 17, 2001.
• "Story of Hûngbu," Smith College, April 7, 2001.
• "Korean Epic Poetry," in People's Poetry Gathering, New York, March 31, 2001.
• "Song of Ch'unhyang," in Musical Ethnography of Tungus-Manchurian Peoples, Yakutsk, Aug 21, 2000.
• "Song of the Underwater Palace," in "Korean Culture Goes Global," Intercultural Center of SF, May 25, 2000.
• "Birth, Death, and Reincarnation of Shim Ch'ông," in "Alienation and Assimilation: Contemporary Images and Installations from the Republic of Korea," San Francisco Asian Art Museum, February 26, 2000.
• "Tradition and Adaptation," co-produced and performed, as part of The Korean Experience in Hawai’i conference, University of Hawaii, January 14, 2000.
• "Intercultural Institute of California's 25th Year Silver Anniversary Gala," San Francisco City Hall, October 15, 1999.
• "Korean Storytelling," 1st Annual Asian Culture Fair, Convention Center, Columbus, March 28, 1998.
• "The Song of Hûngbu," Kyemyông University, June 28, 1997.
• "Introducing the instrumental, vocal, and dance arts of Korea," Royal Asiatic Society Annual Garden Party, British Embassy, Seoul, June 21, 1997.
• The Third Asian-American Festival, Franklin Park, Columbus, Ohio, P’ansori and kômun’go sanjo, May 24-25, 1997.
• The Second Asian-American Festival, Franklin Park, Columbus, Ohio, organizing and performing in the Korean event, May 25-26, 1996.
• Song Uhyang P’ansori Insaeng 55 Nyon Kinyom Palp’yo Hoe" (Commemoration of Song Uhyang’s 55 Years of P’ansori singing), performance of p’ansori at Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea, October 1, 1994.
• "First Night P’ansori," Mabel Smyth Auditorium Honolulu, December 31, 1993.
• "Talking Island Festival," Sponsored by Department of Parks and Recreation City and County of Honolulu, October 2, 1993 (Song of Hungbu)
• "Musics of Hawaii Festival," Honolulu Academy of Arts, May 21-23, 1993 (Song of Shim Ch’ong)
• "Song of Shim Ch’ong," Soto Buddhist Temple, Honolulu, January 15, 1993.
• "Song of Shim Ch’ong," University of Hawaii Department of Religion, June 5, 1992.
• "Song of Ch’unhyang," East West Night, East West Center, October 1991.
• "P’ansori Performance/Panel Discussion (Song of Shim Ch’ong), East West Center, August 31, 1990.

Stage Directing (dramatic presentations)

• The Marriage, Sogang Jesuit University, Seoul 1989 (English)

• The Crucible, Sogang Jesuit University, Seoul 1988 (English)

• Open Couple, Very Open, Hyundai Theatre Ensemble, Seoul 1988 (Korean translation)

• Ch’ong’s Death, Patanggol Performance Festival, Seoul 1987 (Korean)

• American Dream, Sejong University, Seoul 1984 (English)

• Death of a Salesman, Kukje University, Seoul 1983 (English)

• Same Time, Next Year, Ppuri Theatre Troupe, Seoul 1981 (Korean translation)

• The Marriage, Minjung Theatre Troupe, Seoul 1979 (Korean translation)

• Madman on the Roof, University of Hawaii Lab Theatre, 1976 (English)

Academic and Community Services

• Production, co-direction, & performance of Songp'a Mask Dance Drama, with the guest artist Mr. Han Ch'anghyôn and students of Korean 600, in Korean Culture Show, The Ohio State University, May 4, 2002.
• Introduction, facilitation, & interpretation for former "Comfort Woman" Kap-Soon Choi, in "A Testomony on the Mass Rape and Sexual Enslavement of Women and Girls," hosted by The Ohio State University Korean Student Association, Ohio State University, March 8, 2002.
• "P'ansori Hungbu," for Korean American Women Artists & Writers Association, 12th Anniversary & Fundraising Event, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, April 27, 2000.
• "P'ansori Ch'unhyang," for "Moving Mountains: Working Together for Social Chainge," 23rd Anniversary Celebration Korean Community Center of the East Bay, March 4, 2000.
• P'ansori performance for San Francisco Korean Center's 1999 Fundraising Banquet, SF City Hall, Oct 15, 1999
• Chair for 1999 AATK (Association for American Teachers of Korean) Teacher Training Workshop and Main Conference, Aug 4-8, 1999.
• Operation Chairman & Master of Ceremony in the 2nd Annual Asian culture Fair in conjunction with the World Martial Arts Expo 1999, Columbus Convention Center, March 27, 1999.
• Talk/Demo of Korean Musical and Narrative Tradition, for the Missoula School District children and youths, University of Montana, October 19, 1998.
• 4th Annual Asian Festival, Master of Ceremony for the Grand Opening, May 23, 1998.
• 1998 OSU Undergraduate Research Forum, Judge for College of Humanities participants, May 15, 1998
• Advisor/Consultant for Columbus Asian Festival 1998.
• Organizer, Operational director, Choreographer, Master of Ceremony in the 1st Annual Asian culture Fair in conjunction with the World Martial Arts Expo 1998, Columbus Convention Center, March 28, 1998.
• Chief Advisor/Consultant for MiddleTown MidFest World Festival on Korea, 1998
• Consulted and hosted "Dance of Fire," experiences of fire expressed through Odissi and modern dances presented by Firehouse Arts Resources, Columbus, Jan 10, 1998.
• Organized, hosted and performed an Asian-American performance event with Peggy Choy, "Dancing into the American Dream: From Alienation to Empowerment," Ohio State Unversity, Nov 21, 1997.
• Organized, hosted and performed with Hi-ah Chai Park’s Kut, a Korean Shamanistic Ritual: Revoicing Feminine Sacred Art, 1996-1997 East Asian Lecture Series, The Ohio State University, May 9, 1997.
• Organized and hosted Lindy Soon Curry’s Folktales from Korea, China, and Japan with Music and Costumes, 1996-1997 East Asian Lecture Series, The Ohio State University, May 2, 1997.
• 1997 NETPAC/USA Asian Film Series, Commentary and roundtable on the Korean film Three friends, East Asian Studies Center, OSU, April 22, 1997.
• Asian Festival 97, Planning Committee
• Helped Windermere Elementary School’s Asian Year Program, March-April 1997.
• An Asian Musical Showcase, Mistress of Ceremonies, Capital University, Feb 22, 1997.
• Asian Festival 1996, Planning Committee, planned, produced, and performed in the Korean program, May 25-26, Franklin Park