Chihyung Jeon is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in South Korea. He is also affiliated with the KAIST Institute for Disaster Studies, which was established in the wake of the Sewol ferry disaster in 2014 to conduct collaborative research on disasters. Trained in the history of technology and STS (science, technology & society), Jeon’s research interests include the sociocultural relationship between humans and technologies, the cultures of robotics and simulation, the entanglement of politics and engineering, and the sociotechnical understanding and education of disasters. As a Carson fellow, he plans to write about the Four Rivers Restoration Project (2008–2012), which has had enormous ecological, social, and political consequences in South Korea.