Jun Cho is a historian of late medieval/early modern Europe, with a particular focus on Low Countries (modern day Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Northern France). He was trained at Columbia University (Ph.D.) and Seoul National University (B.A.) and taught at Amherst College before joining the College of Liberal Studies at Seoul National University. As a historian, he is drawn to the questions of how Europeans sought to understand and control the economic relations in which they were embedded, how these efforts were mediated through the cultural and institutional frameworks they had inherited, and how their solutions were tied to the broader structural changes of state and market formation. Thus, his research focuses on the intersection of market culture, institutions and state formation during this transitional period, in particular, the relationship between court and commerce in the Low Countries where the aforementioned issues came together in dramatic and critical fashion. This has also led him to straddle the medieval and early modern divide, especially considering how medieval precedents and traditions wove into these early modern issues. His manuscript in progress, Princely Business: The Nexus of Commerce and Court in the Northern Renaissance, 1450-1530, underscores these themes by excavating the commercial underpinnings of the Burgundian-Habsburg court and recasting its cultural aspirations and economic significance.