Sungok Lim is a PhD student in International History at the LSE working under the supervision of Professor Antony Best. He graduated with a BA (2020) and an MA (2022) in Economics from Hitotsubashi University. His research explores the Anglo-American attitudes towards the outbreak and settlement of the Russo-Japanese War in the early 20th Century with specific attention to Korea, and Korea’s perspective towards Britain and the United States. This will include studying why Britain and the U.S. were content with Japan's establishment of a protectorate as a solution to the Korean dilemma, as well as why Korea considered the neutralisation as a panacea to the same conundrum.

Thesis title: The Anglo-American approach and commonality upon East Asia and Korea, 1897-1905