• Kyong Yoon

      Professor of Cultural Studies

      Kyong Yoon is a Seoul-born media researcher. His research focuses on digital media, migration, East Asian popular culture, and youth culture.

       

      Kyong is the author of Digital Mediascapes of Transnational Korean Youth Culture (Routledge, 2020) and Diasporic Hallyu: The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture (Palgrave, 2022). He has co-authored Transnational Hallyu: The Globalization of Korean Digital and Popular Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).

       

      He studied at Korea University and the University of Birmingham and held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Sheffield and Korea University. He was a research assistant professor at Korea University and a Korea Foundation visiting professor at McGill University.

      At the University of British Columbia Okanagan, he teaches courses on cultural industries, internet culture, and Asian pop culture. He lives in Kelowna, Canada, while working on his fourth book.

    • Research Highlights

      Diasporic Hallyu: The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture

      Research Monograph. 2022. New York: Palgrave. LINK

      Transnational Hallyu:
      The Globalization of Korean Digital and Popular Culture

      Research Monograph. 2021. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. LINK
      Co-authored with Dal Yong Jin and Wonjung Min.

      Digital Mediascapes of Transnational Korean Youth Culture

      Research Monograph. 2020. New York: Routledge. LINK

      Articles (2021 and 2022)

      Yoon, K. (2022). Diasporic Koreanness in Kim’s Convenience. In Tanter, Marcy and Park, Moisés (Eds.), Here Comes the Flood: Perspectives of Gender, Sexuality, and Stereotype in the Korean Wave. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (Book Chapter). LINK

       

      Yoon, K. (2022). K-pop Trans/nationalism. In Sahoo, Ajaya (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Asian Transnationalism. London: Routledge. LINK
       

      Yoon, K. (2021). North Korean Defectors’ Self-representation as the Politics of Refusal. Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies. LINK

       

      Yoon, K. (2021). K-pop Pedagogy in the Digital Platform Era. International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, 17 (2). LINK

       

      Yoon, K. (2021). Micro-celebrities from the North: Young North Korean Defectors’ Vlogging on YouTube. First Monday, 26 (7). LINK

      Yoon, K. (2021). Discourse of the Post-COVID 19 New Deal in South Korea. East Asia: An International Quarterly. LINK

       

      Yoon, K. (2021). Digital Dilemmas in the (Post-)pandemic Digital State. Journal of Digital Media and Policy, 12 (1). LINK

      Articles (2020 and earlier)

      For the full list of publications
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      Major Contributions in the 2010s (Select)

      Yoon, K. (2018). Global Imagination of K-Pop: Pop Music Fans’ Lived Experiences of Cultural Hybridity. Popular Music and Society, 41 (4): 373–389. LINK

       

      Jin, D. Y. & Yoon, K. (2016). The Social Mediascape of Korean Pop Culture: Hallyu 2.0 as Spreadable Media Practice. New Media & Society, 18 (7): 1277–1292. LINK

       

      Yoon, K. (2014). Transnational Youth Mobility in the Neoliberal Economy of Experience. Journal of Youth Studies, 17 (8):1014–1028. LINK

       

       

      Inquiries

      kyong dot yoon at outlook.com

       

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