Dr William Strnad received an MA in Korean Studies from Yonsei University (Seoul, Republic of Korea) in 2003 and a PhD in Korean Linguistics from Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań, Poland) in 2021. He served in the field of human intelligence (HUMINT) for two decades, and since 2004 he has been a faculty member at Adam Mickiewicz University. He has taught subjects in the humanities and social sciences, including courses in modern Korean history, Chinese characters (for Korean), and Korean nationalism. He currently is a Senior Lecturer in the Korean Philology Department, Faculty of Ethnolinguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University. Dr Strnad has published articles in the following publications: Scripta Neophilologica Posnaniensia, Meandry Koreanistyki, Investigationes Linguisticae, Proceedings of the CEESOK International Conference on Korean Studies, and the International Journal of Korean Humanities and Social Sciences.