Christoph Bluth is a professor of international studies at the University of Leeds. He was a visiting professor at Yonsei University, Seoul, in 2005 and a visiting researcher at the Korean Institute for Defense Analyses. He is the author of Krea (2007), among other books. He is a founding member of the Korea Research Hub at the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield in the United Kingdom. He lives in Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.