He received the Ph.D from University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1993, writing a dissertation on the "Korean-Black conflict: from a communication perspective". Returing back to S. Korea, he has tought at Kangwon National University and is currently te
...MoreHe received the Ph.D from University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1993, writing a dissertation on the "Korean-Black conflict: from a communication perspective". Returing back to S. Korea, he has tought at Kangwon National University and is currently teaching at Korea National Univeristy of Arts. His major is media and cultural studies, journalism and communication theory. But his interest covers wider areas of history, politics and Asia studies. In addition to the subject of media/cultural studies he is majoring, He also wrote several articles on the potics of urban space, history & memory. He made a few short documentary films on them, too. He is currently staying at Tartu, as a visiting professor at the Social Science Institue, University of Tartu. Here, he is planned to research nationism and nation building history of Estonia, Koreans' image+nation of Estonia, the K-pop phenomenon among the Baltic girls, and so on.
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