Saerom Im

Saerom Im, Ph.D in Music education, is after graduating from Arts High School and Korea National University of Education, She earned both her Master’s and Doctoral degrees (2022) in Music Education from the Graduate School of KNUE.

Throughout her career, she has worked as an educator, actress, and vocalist, providing students with the beauty and joy of music and the arts in her 18 years as a public secondary school music teacher. She wrote music text books for middle school students and cooperated with various institutions such as the Ministry of Education, the KICE (Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation), KACES (Korea Arts and Culture Education Service) and universities. Dr. Im has won awards in student choir competitions and teacher’s a class research presentation competition in the arts and physical education category, and currently focuses on activities related to various arts such as music-based theater, dance and visual art. In addition, she deeply agrees with the American philosopher Maxine Greene’s philosophy of art education and thinks that raising a good teacher is the most necessary thing for having many students to focus on good art and to be lead to an awaken life.

Currently, she is researching methods to educate both students and the teachers who are closest to them in the school environment. She has earned a Master’s degree in Theater Studies (2025) and continues to bring music and theater to the stage, embodying the embodied cognition of living human existence through performance.