Torunika Roy is an East Asia scholar with extensive academic and field experience in South Korea. She completed her undergraduate studies in International Studies at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, where sustained immersion in Korean language, society, and politics shaped her long-term engagement with the region. She is completing her PhD in Korean Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, with doctoral research examining South Korea’s low fertility rates through gender, critical consciousness, and women’s reproductive choices. She has worked with the Korea Chair at the Council for Strategic and Defence Research on issues linking demographic change, security, and India–South Korea relations. As a Korea Foundation Fellow, she has conducted extensive fieldwork, archival research, and interviews in South Korea. Her research and writing span gender, demographic change, and political and security dynamics across East Asia, and her work has appeared in platforms such as The Indian Express, Frontline, Observer Research Foundation, Wilson Center, and peer-reviewed academic journals.