Sunkyo Park

Sunkyo is a final year PhD student researching under the supervision of Professor Peter Scott. His current research engages with the political ideology of division and peace theology in South Korea. The project is largely concerned with proposing theological discourses to assess the political ideology of division in South Korea and addressing challenges which are occurred by the ideology. And also it would suggest an alternative theological discourse to overcome the division of the Korean peninsula. 

Sunkyo is a graduate of Hanshin University (Theology) and Graduate School of Theology (M.Div.) in South Korea and completed a Master’s degree at the University for Peace (UN-mandated University, International Peace Studies) in Costa Rica.

He is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea (PROK) and served as an assistant minister for the Kyungdong Presbyterian Church in Korea. And he also worked as a programme coordinator of Global Ecumenical Theological Institute (GETI) for the 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and participated in the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) by the WCC.

He is a recipient of Lincoln Theological Institute’s International Doctoral Studentship and the Mark Gibbs Doctoral Studentship (2021-2024).