Sem Vermeersch

Sem Andre Claudine Vermeersch (born 1968 in Blankenberge) is a Belgian academician, editor, author, administrator and professor of Buddhism at Seoul National University.

Early life Vermeersch's undergraduate experience at the University of Ghent was followed by further studies at Anhui Normal University in China. His 2001 doctoral thesis was entitled "The Power of Buddha." a visiting professor at the Academia Koreana, Keimyung University (2005-2007), and in 2008 joined the faculty of Seoul National University as a fellow at the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies.

The Power of Buddha: the Ideological and Institutional Role of Buddhism in the Koryo Dynasty, 2001 湖巌承志園: 우리 시대 의 한옥, 호암 승지원 (Hoam Sŭngjiwŏn : uri sidae ŭi hanok, Hoam Sŭngjiwŏn), 2006 The Power of the Buddhas: the Politics of Buddhism During the Koryŏ Dynasty (918-1392), 2008 "A Chinese Traveler in Medieval Korea: Xu Jing's Illustrated Account of the Xuanhe Embassy to Koryo", 2016

Honors Association for Asian Studies, James B. Palais Book Prize, 2010.