The HK+ Mega-Asia Project Research Group based at SNUAC was launched in May 2020 with the support of the National Research Foundation of Korea. The concept of “Mega-Asia” emerged out of the need for a broader view of the region and for the accompanying invention of a conceptual framework that can embrace the changing and complex reality of Asia in the present day. In addition, the experiences of the pandemic and post-pandemic era demonstrated the need to take both global and local perspectives into account, engaging in research of a “glocal” nature, in which Asia’s commonalities and particularities are considered simultaneously.