Dr. Jeehea Baek is currently a Professor in the Department of Early Childhood Education, College of Education, at Keimyung University. She earned her Ph.D. in Music Education from Arizona State University, USA, in 2009. Her research interests include early childhood music education, qualitative research, and pre-service teacher education. To date, she has conducted more than 30 research studies in these areas and is expanding her research into post-humanist arts-based inquiry. She received research funding for early-career researchers from the National Research Foundation of Korea for a total of three years (2013–2014 and 2017), through which she completed studies on young children's musical thinking and pre-service teacher education aimed at enhancing children's well-being. In addition, she actively serves as an executive member and board director of various early childhood education associations, contributing to the field as a dedicated early childhood education researcher.