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KIM, Shin Dong

KIM, Shin Dong
Visiting Professor

B.A.
Korea University

M.A.
Korea University

Ph.D.
Indiana University

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icon research Research Interests:

Media industries and policy;
Coevolution of media platforms and digital contents;
Global pop culture and public diplomacy

icon research Current Research:

Media coevolution of platforms and contents;
Public diplomacy, soft power and popular culture;
ESG in creative industries

icon research Teaching Interests:

Media industries and policy;
Asian and Korean cinema in social and historical context;
Political economy of media and communication

icon about Advice to students:

Readings will seriously damage your ignorance.

icon research Permanent & Visiting Appointments:

Professor, The Media School, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea, 1998-present.
Visiting Professor, Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, January-May 2021.
Visiting Professor, Shanghai University, China, 2013-2019. (International summer school).
Visiting Professor, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong, January-June 2010.
Visiting Scholar, Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA, August-December 2009.
Korean Studies Chair Professor, Center for Asia and the Pacific, Sciences Po Paris, Paris, France, October 2008-June 2009.
Visiting Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Peking University, Beijing, China, February-July 2008.
Asian Chair Professor, Sciences Po, Paris, France, June 2006.
Visiting Professor, College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines, March 2005-February 2006.
Visiting Professor, Institute for International Studies, Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok, Thailand, February 2005.
Visiting Associate Professor, Centre for International Communication, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, August 2003- February 2004.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January-March, 2000 and January-March 2001.

icon research Publication List:

Journal Articles

2020. (with Jimmyn Parc). The Digital Transformation of the Korean Music Industry and the Global Emergence of K-Pop. Sustainability, 12: 1-16.

2020. (with Jimmyn Parc). “Inbound and Outbound Globalizations in the International Film Industry.” Global Policy, 11 . Supplement 2.

2019. (with Dominique Nduhura and Nadine Mumporez). “"When Social Media are Your Sole Life Jacket”": A Capability Analysis of Foreign Brides’' Empowerment by Social Media in South Korea. OMNES: The Journal of Multicultural Society. 9(1): 148-184.

2018. “Communication skills in health and social care” and “Communication in nursing and healthcare: A guide for compassionate practice”. Asian Communication Research, 15(1): 138-143.

2017. (with Anthony Fung) Temptation of control in the globalizing culture industries. Global Media and China, 1(4): 1-5.

2016. (with D. Nduhura) ‘I smile even when I do not feel like smiling’: Construction of self-identity through selfies in South Korea. Korean Regional Sociology, 17(2): 145-170.

2015. (with D. Nduhura & E. Ayinebyona) Unpacking the ‘shared viewing’ phenomenon in Rwanda. Korean Regional Sociology, 16(2): 157-185.

2015. The industrialization and globalization of China’s musical theater. Media Industries. 1(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/mij.15031809.0001.303

2007. Multiplicity of Mobility. Asian Design Journal 4: 16-32.

2007. (with Leslie Haddon) Mobile Phones and Web-based Social Networking: Emerging Practices in Korea with Cyworld. The Journal of the Communications Network 6(1), January–March: 5-12.

2006. Generations before and after the mobile. Asian Communication Research, 3: 75-91.

2004. A cross-cultural study on the use of mobile communication. Korean Journal of Journalism and Communication Studies, 48(2). (in Korean).

2003. Strong State, Stronger Capital: The Political Economy of the Korean Television Industry in the Context of Globalization. Journal of International Communication, 9(1): 52-80.

2001. (with J. Shim, C. Salmon, K. Lee, J. Lee, and J. Kim) Investigative reporting of the Park Jong Chul case and implications for South Korea's democratization. Korean Journal of Journalism and Communication Studies, Special English Ed. pp. 313-333.

2001. The emergence of Homo Telephonicus: Socio-cultural conditions for the diffusion of mobile phone technology. Korean Journal of Journalism and Communication Studies 45-2 (in Korean).

2001. Reconstructing time and space: the use of mobile phone and communication. Telecom World. 1(2): 21-40 (in Korean).

2001. Information and social trust. Trust Research 11: 183-231 (in Korean).

2001. (with S. Kim and J. Lee) How healthy is the television coverage on health news? Journal of Community Nursing 12(2): 513-541 (in Korean).

2000. Problems with the satellite broadcasting policy: issues on monopoly and foreign capital. Broadcasting and Communication 1(1): 31-55 (in Korean).

2000. Global offensive and local resistance in the process of media globalization: a review of concepts and phenomena. The Report of the Institute of Social Sciences, 20: 61-81, Chuo University, Tokyo.

Books and Book Chapters:

2021 (in progress). Digital Media: Industry, Policy, and Culture in Asia. London & New York: Routledge.

2019. (Ed.) Media Coevolution: Interdependent Development of Information Infrastructure and Cultural Contents. Seoul: Hanul.

2019. The Korean Wave: Why it Swept the World. In Mishra Suman and Rebecca Kern-Stone (Eds.). Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases. Wiley-Blackwell.

2018. A political economy of/and the Korean media industry research. In Nojin Kwak & Dal Yong Jin (Eds.). Communication, Digital Media, and Popular Culture in Korea Contemporary Research and Future Prospects. New York & London: Lexington Books.

2018. (Eds. with Jun-Shik Park). ICT and the Social Change in Korea. Seoul: Hanul.

2013. The Rise of the Korean Cinema in the Inbound/Outbound Globalization. In Anthony Fung (Ed.), Asian Popular Culture: The Global (Dis)continuity. London: Routledge.

2011. The Creation of Pansori Cinema: Sopyonje and Chunhyangdyun in Creative Hybridity. In K. Yau (Ed.), East Asian Cinema and Cultural Heritage: From China, Hong Kong, Taiwan to Japan and South Korea. Palgrave Macmillan.

2005. (Ed.) When Mobile Came. Seoul: Communication Books.

2004. Glocalization, Informatization, and Cultural Conflict (Monograph). Seoul: KISDI (in Korean).

2004. Cohesion, symbiosis, confrontation, and Check: the transformation of press-power relationship, 1997-2003. In Sangwon Lim et al. (Eds.), Freedom and Press. Seoul: Nanam (in Korean)

2003. The shaping of new politics in the era of mobile and cyber communication: The Internet, mobile phone and political participation in Korea. In Kristof Nyiri (Ed.), Mobile Communication: Social and Political Effects. Vienna: Passagen Verlag.

2002. Korea: personal meanings, or the social and cultural conditions for the diffusion of mobile communication technology in Korea. In James Katz and Mark Aakhus (Eds.), Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance. Cambridge University Press.

2000. (with Shelton Gunaratne). The media in North Korea, in Shelton Gunaratne (Ed.), Handbook of the Media in Asia. London & New Delhi: Sage.

Research Reports (Monographs)

2013. Public Television in Rwanda: Agenda for Development. Seoul: KISDI.

2005. Primary Strategies for International Exchanges and Building Networks. Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Republic of Korea. (in Korean)

2005. Culture State of Communication and Participation: Searching for Korea’s Future. Seoul: Presidential Commission for Policy Planning. (in Korean)

2005. Usages of Cyworld in Korea. France Telecom R&D. France.

2005. Prospects and Issues of Telco’s Entry into the Broadcasting Market: IPTV. Seoul: Korea Cable Television Association. (in Korean)

2005. The Social Influence of IT and Mobile Communication. Seoul: KISDI. (in Korean)

2004. Glocalization, Informatization, and Culture Clash. Seoul: KISDI. (in Korean)

Edited Proceedings

2019. Cinema, North Korea, and Division of Nation. Seoul, Korea

2017. Changing Ecologies of Media Industries: Technology, Business, Policy, Culture. Chuncheon, Korea.

2007. Media and Culture Industry in Asia, Chuncheon and Seoul, Korea.

2006. Cinema in/on Asia. Asia Culture Forum, Gwangju, Korea.

2006. Mobile and Pop Culture in Asia. Asia Culture Forum, Gwangju, Korea.

2006. Multiculturalism in Asia. Asia Culture Forum, Gwangju, Korea.

2005. E-Voting and Electronic Democracy: Present and Future. Seoul, Korea.

2005. Culture Industry and Cultural Capital: Transnational Media Consumption and the Media Wave in East Asia. Seoul, Korea.

2004. Mobile Communication and Social Change. Seoul, Korea.

2002. Mobile Communication and Society, Chuncheon, Korea.