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Comprised of nine research teams, each studying aspects of Korean politics, economy, technology, and culture.
We promote interdisciplinary collaboration and global academic exchange.

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  • Hong Jung KIM

    Hong Jung KIM is a professor in the Department of Sociology in Seoul National University, South Korea. His research interest focuses on psycho-social logics of Korean modernity, survivalist culture of neoliberalism, Anthropocene studies, catastrophism, and future social theory drawing on Tarde, Deleuze, and Latour. He published the following books: Psycho-sociology(2009), Sociological Un-imagination(2016), Recluse-machine(2020), Survivalist Modernity(2024), Belief in the World(2024). Currently, he is working on the kenotic practices of Korean young generation such as veganism.

  • Jaeho Kang

    Jaeho Kang is Professor in Department of Communication at Seoul National University. He was Senior Lecturer in Critical Media and Cultural Studies at SOAS, the University of London (2012-2018), Assistant Professor in Sociology of Media at The New School in New York City (2005-2012), and the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Institut für Sozialforschung, the University of Frankfurt (2004-2005). He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2004. The author of Walter Benjamin and the Media: The Spectacle of Modernity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014) and a co-editor of Siegfried Kracauer: Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda and Political Communication (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022), Kang has tried to bring the theoretical contributions of Critical Theory to the development of Asian media and cultural studies.

  • Jungha Kim

    Jungha KIM received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include 20th-century American literature, Asian American literature, diaspora literature, trauma studies, and psychoanalytic criticism. She is particularly interested in how the historical traumas and memories of 20th-century America and Asia are mediated through narrative and visual media. She also explores how neoliberal capitalism reshapes the relationship between trauma and aesthetics. Her publications include “Minimalism as a Style of Reparation and Anxiety” (Journal of Humanities, 81(4), 2024), “COVID-19 and Asia as Style” (InSide/Outside: English Studies in Korea, 52, 2022), “Senses of Still Life in Don DeLillo’s 9/11 Fiction” (American Fiction Studies, 27(1), 2020), “Animated Plastic and Material Eco-Cosmopolitanism in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest” (In The Limits of Cosmopolitanism, 2019), and “The Affects and Ethics of the Gift in Aimee Phan’s We Should Never Meet” (Contemporary Literature, 57(1), 2016).

  • Dongshin Yi

    Dongshin Yi is Professor of English at Seoul National University. His research interests include posthumanism, contemporary American fiction, science fiction and animal studies. He has published Humans and Things: Three Streams of Posthumanism (Galmuri, 2022), SF, the Spirit of the Contemporary (Book21, 2021), From Boundary to Empathy: Humans and Animals (Edabooks, 2021), and A Genealogy of Cyborgothic: Aesthetics and Ethics in the Age of Posthumanism (Ashgate, 2010).

  • Seung Cheol LEE

    Seung Cheol LEE is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Seoul National University, South Korea. His research interests focus on how neoliberal financialization has reshaped people’s social, affective, ethical, and political lives. He is currently investigating the relations between financialization and the rise of populist politics among youth through ethnographic research on crypto-investor communities in South Korea.

  • Munyoung Cho

    Munyoung Cho is a professor of the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Yonsei University, South Korea. Her research interests include poverty,  development, and youth in China and South Korea. Cho is the author of The Specter of “The People”: Urban Poverty in Northeast China (Cornell University Press, 2013) and Poverty as Process: The Assemblage of Poverty and the Anthropology of Precarious Lives (Geulhangari, 2022, in Korean). Her recent articles include "The Precariat That Can Speak: The Politics of Encounters between the Educated Youth and the Urban Poor in Seoul" (Current Anthropology, 63(5), 2022) and "Intersecting Labor in the Social Factory: Trajectory of a Migrant Woman in South China" (Positions, 31(2), 2023).