David Chan-oong Kang (Korean: 강찬웅; Hanja: 康燦雄,[1] born January 17, 1965)[2] is a Korean American political scientist.

Born to a family of the Sincheon Kang clan,[1] he holds a bachelor's degree in Anthropology and International Politics from Stanford University from 1988 and a doctorate in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, 1995.

He leads the Institute for Korean Studies at the same university.

[3] In his publication of They Think They’re Normal : Enduring Questions and New Research on North Korea - A Review Essay, David C. Kang talks about North Korea’s foreign and domestic policy, North Korea’s behavioral motivation, and lastly, to what extent North Korea’s behavior predictable or not.

He uses three scholarly works of Patrick McEachern, Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland, and Suk-Young Kim to fundamentally understand North Korea’s way of survival as a communist regime and their future endeavors.