Graduated from the Department of Industrial Design at Hansung University in 1992 and completed a master’s program at the same university in 1997. In 2003, he graduated from the Visual Communication Design program at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and in 2006, completed the doctoral coursework at the Graduate School of International Information and Communication at Waseda University. In 2012, he earned a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies at Hokkaido University.

He translated Asking Typography to Japan and Reorganizing the Design of Fukuda Shigeo and has published numerous research papers on typography. He is currently an associate professor at Hokkaido University of Education.