CKR congratulates Professor Jungwon Kim on her newly published edited volume Beyond Death: The Politics of Suicide and Martyrdom in Korea (University of Washington Press, 2019) co-edited by Charles Kim, Hwasook Nam, and Serk-Bae Suh. … [Read more...]

Hye Eun Choi is Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. She received her PhD in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MA in Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation, titled “The Making of the Recording Industry in Colonial Korea (1910-1945),” explores the birth of the Korean recording industry at the intersection of capitalism, … [Read more...]

Samuel S. Kim (Ph.D., Columbia, 1966) is Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Korean Research, Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Professor Kim previously taught at Foreign Affairs Institute, Beijing, China (1985– 1986), Princeton University (1986–1993), and Columbia University (1993–2006) and is editor-in-chief of the Asia in World Politics series of Rowman & … [Read more...]