Work With Me

I work as a conduit between organisations that want to engage with North Korea and the affected communities at the heart of the issue. I bring the rare combination of deep community access, frontline advocacy experience, and programme management skills to turn your vision into impact.

Why do you do what you do? is one of the most frequently asked questions I receive, and my answer has not changed from day one: I do what I do for the 25 million North Korean people.

If your work touches the DPRK, I can help. Whether you need a speaker, a panel moderator, a workshop facilitator, an expert reviewer to vet your report for accuracy, or a strategic partner to design and deliver an intervention, I would love to hear from you. Let's talk.

Who You Are

• International organisations and UN agencies working on human rights, sanctions, and forced labour
• Human rights NGOs requiring DPRK expertise
• Law firms and corporates conducting forced labour due diligence and supply chain risk assessments
• Think tanks, universities, and research institutions
• Government agencies and diplomatic missions engaging on the Korean peninsula
• Media outlets seeking expert analysis and commentary on North Korea

What I can help with

• Research and investigations — Design and delivery of field-based research on North Korean forced labour, migration, and diaspora communities, including interviews with defectors, overseas workers, and hard-to-reach populations in sensitive environments
• Grant writing and donor reporting — Proposal development, narrative reporting, and funder engagement for human rights and forced labour programming (DRL, NED, and similar frameworks)
• UN and treaty body engagement — NGO submissions to treaty monitoring bodies, Universal Periodic Review contributions, and Human Rights Council resolution drafting and advocacy
• Advocacy strategy — Full-cycle advocacy planning from evidence-gathering through coalition-building, stakeholder mapping, and multilateral engagement
• Policy analysis — Sanctions policy, forced labour regulations (EU Forced Labour Regulation, UFLPA), and supply chain compliance frameworks
• Translation and interpretation — Professional Korean-English translation, localisation, and certified legal interpretation
  

What I have built

• Led the research and publication of an advocacy report, A Day in the Life of a DPRK State-sponsored Labourer, on DPRK overseas workers in Russia, benchmarked against all eleven ILO forced labour indicators
  
• Working Paper Series No. 144, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
• Contributed to the unanimous adoption and zero draft of the 55th UN Human Rights Council Resolution on the DPRK | Situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea : resolution / adopted by the Human Rights Council on 4 April 2024
• HRW | Joint Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (47th Session of the UN Universal Periodic Review)
• The Korean Peninsula Future Women’s Institute | Individual Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (47th Session of the UN Universal Periodic Review)
• Supported fundraising and programme delivery for the successful resettlement of over 1,300 North Korean refugees in South Korea

Previous and current clients include

• Human Rights Watch
• Global Rights Compliance
• Liberty in North Korea
• Daily NK, AND Centre
• BAT

Education

- DPhil in International Development, University of Oxford (offer holder)
- MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, University of Oxford
- BA in Philosophy and International Studies, Ewha Womans University

Certification

• Legal Interpreter, Republic of Korea (2020)

Expert Consortium | Nox Analytica

As the Founder and Director of Nox Analytica, I lead a premier consortium of Oxford-educated policy experts and researchers. We specialise in bespoke policy research and memo drafting, bringing together 30 years of experience and a multilingual team (Chinese, Korean, Spanish, French, Arabic, Swedish, and English). We are ready to address your most complex challenges with precision and speed.

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