Teaching - Kyusik Yang

Open Educational Resources

assemblykor New R Package

An R package providing curated Korean National Assembly datasets for teaching quantitative methods in political science. A Korean politics counterpart to palmerpenguins. Ships 7 ready-to-use datasets and 6 interactive Korean-language tutorials covering the full methods sequence from tidyverse basics to network analysis.

7 datasets 9 interactive tutorials 460k+ records 2 formats (learnr / Rmd)

#	Tutorial	Topics
1	R Basics & tidyverse	dplyr, pipes, joins	Launch ↗
2	Data Visualization	ggplot2, bar, scatter, facet	Launch ↗
3	Regression	OLS, multivariate, interactions	Launch ↗
4	Panel Data & Fixed Effects	FE, two-way FE, DiD
5	Text Analysis	TF-IDF, keyword frequency
6	Network Analysis	centrality, community detection
7	Roll Call Analysis	voting patterns, ideal points	Launch ↗
8	Bill Success	passage rates, survival	Launch ↗
9	Speech Patterns	committee speech analysis

install.packages("assemblykor")

GitHub ↗ Tutorials ↗ Explorer ↗ Uijeong Jido 의정지도 ↗ kna CLI ↗

Multimodal Embedding for Political Science Tutorial Learning by Doing

An open research notebook and methods tutorial for embedding Korean politicians' YouTube Shorts (text + audio + video) into a shared vector space using Google's Gemini Embedding 2. Documents the full pipeline from API setup to panel regression, written for political scientists without ML background. With Yongjai Yu (UC Riverside).

4 chapters 5-phase self-study curriculum 30+ curated readings

#	Chapter	Topics
1	Setup	Google AI Studio API, SDK, connection test
2	Embedding	audio, video, multimodal strategies
3	Analysis	cosine similarity, UMAP, HDBSCAN
4	Panel Design	aggregation, FE regression, event study

Live Site ↗ GitHub ↗

New York University

Introduction to Research Methods in Political Science

Teaching Assistant / Section Leader for Prof. Cassandra Handan-Nader [Spring 2026]

Power and Politics in America

Teaching Assistant / Section Leader for Prof. Sanford C. Gordon [Fall 2023] [Fall 2025]

Power and Politics in America

Teaching Assistant / Section Leader for Prof. Jonathan Nagler [Spring 2024]

Yonsei University

Introduction to Political Science Korean

Teaching Assistant for Prof. Youngjae Jin [Spring 2015] [Spring 2016] [Fall 2016] [Spring 2017]

Comparative Politics Korean

Teaching Assistant for Prof. Youngjae Jin [Spring 2015] [Spring 2017]

Social Science Research Methods Korean

Teaching Assistant for Prof. Youngjae Jin [Spring 2016]

Korean Politics Korean

Teaching Assistant for Prof. Youngjae Jin [Fall 2015]

Party Politics Korean

Teaching Assistant for Prof. Youngjae Jin [Fall 2014]