Dr Tereza NOVOTNÁ is a Korea-Europe Center Fellow at Free University (FU) Berlin and Korea Associate at 9DashLine. She previously held a Korea Foundation and Marie Sklodowska-Curie research projects on the EU and South Korea approaches to the Covid19 pandemic (“KOR-ON-EU”) and on the EU’s foreign policy towards North Korea (“EUSKOR”) at the Center for European Integration at FU Berlin. She is also a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the EUROPEUM, a Prague-based think-tank, which is focused on EU policies. In 2017-2018, Tereza was a Korea Foundation Visiting Professor at Seoul National University and Fudan Fellow at Fudan University in Shanghai. She collaborates with the Institute for European Studies, Université libre de Bruxelles where she held two postdocs from 2012 to 2017. Tereza received her doctorate from Boston University in 2012 and other degrees from Charles University Prague. She is the author of the monograph How Germany Unified and the EU Enlarged: Negotiating the Accession through Transplantation and Adaptation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and has widely published on EU foreign policy in, among others, Journal of Common Market Studies, Studia Diplomatica, and on the EU-North East Asia relations in 38th North, The Diplomat, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 9DashLine, Asia Trends and others. Tereza has been a frequent commentator for media outlets such as Indus News, Czech TV and NK News. You can visit her website at https://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/polwiss/euskor and to follow her on Twitter at @TerezaANovotna.