Youngmin Kim is a professor of political science at Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea. Before he joined Seoul National University, he taught east Asian thought and culture at Bryn Mawr College. His major research areas include East Asian intellectual history and political thought, with specializations in late imperial Chinese intellectual history, Korean intellectual history, and Neo-Confucianism. His publications include "A History of Chinese Political Thought" and "Woman and Confucianism in Chôson Korea". He also works as an art critic. He holds a Ph. D. from Harvard University in the intellectual history of East Asia.