Youngmin Kim is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of Trans Media World Literature Institute and Director of Digital Humanities Lab at Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea, and Jack Ma Chair Professor of Ma Yun Education Fund at Hangzhou Normal University, China. He has served as Editor-in-Chief and currently Editorial Supervisor of Journal of English Language and Literature and President of English Language and Literature Association of Korea. He was Visiting Professor at Cornell University and Vice President of International Association of the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL), International Association of Ethical Literary Criticism (IAELC), Executive Council Member of International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Advisory Committee Member of IWL (Institute of World Literature) of Harvard University, Vice President of Korea Digital Humanities Association (KADH), and Chair of International Affairs Committee of Korea East West Comparative Literature Association (KESTWEST). He is currently the Principal Investigator of the research grant from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) on the topic of “The Ethics of Technology in the Humanities in the Age of Precarity and Pandemic: The Convergence of AI, Digital Humanities, Trans Media Art, and World Literature.”