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Professor of Asian-Pacific Studies

Dr. Jung-Sun Park is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests include (trans)nationalism, (im)migration, citizenship, race/ethnicity, Korean/Asian popular culture (including the Korean Wave and Japanese comics and animation), Asian Americans, Asian diaspora (especially Korean diaspora), politics of identity, class/gender/generational relationships, and community power relations. She is co-author of聽Korean American Studies in the Global Era: Theoretical Reviews and New Perspectives (Haggobang, 2021), Cross the Pacific: The Lives of Korean Americans and Their Socio-Political Engagement in the Global Age (Haggobang, 2020), After Hallyu: The Potential and Future Task聽(The Academy of Korean Studies Press, 2015) and co-editor of聽The Borders in All of Us: New Approaches to Three Global Diasporic Communities聽(New World African Press, 2006). She was a visiting scholar at the Asia Pacific Research Center at Stanford University (2003) and the Academy of Korean Studies (2010) and is a recipient of a Korea Foundation Advanced Research Grant (2002) and an Academy of Korean Studies Research Fellowship (2009). Her current research focuses on transnational flows of Korean/Asian popular culture.

Selected Publications

Books

(co-authored with Eun-Ju Chung, Kyung-Koo Han, Kye-Young Park, Jeong Duk Yi, Hyun-Hee Kim, Jae-Hyup Lee, and Chul-In Yoo). Seoul, Korea: Haggobang, 2021 (published in Korean).聽

(co-authored with Chul-In Yoo, Kyung-Koo Han, Eun-Ju Chung, Jae-Hyup Lee, Hyun-Hee Kim, Kye-Young Park and Jeong Duk Yi). Seoul, Korea: Haggobang, 2020 (published in Korean).

(co-authored with Sang-hoon Lee, Kyung Hyun Kim, Shin Ahn, Hye-ran Shin, Bao-quan Liu and Shin Kim). Seongnam, Korea: The Academy of Korean Studies Press, 2015. (Published in English and Korean).

(co-edited with William Little, Selase Williams, Irene Vasquez and Munashe Furusa). Trenton, NJ: New World African Press, 2006.

Articles

鈥淭rans-Pacific Flows and US Audiences of Korean Popular Culture.鈥� In Global East Asia. Frank Pieke and Koichi Iwabuchi (eds.). Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2021.

鈥淚mmigrants and Transnational Cultural Flows: Korean Americans and the Korean Wave.鈥� In Korean American Studies in the Global Era: Theoretical Reviews and New Perspectives.聽 Eun-Ju Chung, Kyung-Koo Han, Kye-Young Park, Jeong Duk Yi, Hyun-Hee Kim, Jung-Sun Park, Jae-Hyup Lee, and Chul-In Yoo. Seoul, Korea: Haggobang, 2021.

鈥淜orean Americans鈥� Consumption of Korean Popular Culture in the Transnational Era: Ramifications for the Construction of New Identities and Communities.鈥澛� In Cross the Pacific: The Lives of Korean Americans and Their Socio-Political Engagement in the Global Age. 聽Chul-In Yoo, Kyung-Koo Han, Eun-Ju Chung, Jae-Hyup Lee, Jung-Sun Park, Hyun-Hee Kim, Kye-Young Park and Jeong Duk Yi. Seoul, Korea: Haggobang, 2020.

鈥淕angnam Style and the Korean Wave.鈥� In After Hallyu: The Potential and Future Task. Sang-hoon Lee, Jung-Sun Park, Kyung Hyun Kim, Shin Ahn, Hye-ran Shin, Bao-quan Liu and Shin Kim. Seongnam, Korea: The Academy of Korean Studies Press, 2015.

An English version of this article is also published.

鈥淟A Korean Community and Korean Festivals (co-authored with Barbara W. Kim). The Korean Community v. 22, 2015.

This article is reprinted in聽鈥溾�� Young-sang Yim and Dong-wan Joo (eds.). Seongnam, Korea: Book Korea, 2015.聽

In The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global. Youna Kim (ed.). London: Routledge, 2013.

In Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History. Xiaojian Zhao and Edward Park (eds.). Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2013.

Global Asia 8 (3), 2013.

鈥淭he Changes in the Legal Definitions Korean Membership and Its Implications." Webzine of the Center for International Affairs, Academy of Korean Studies, v. 81, 2011.

in Complicated Currents: Media Flows, Soft Power and East Asia. Daniel Black, Stephen Epstein and Alison Tokita (eds.). Melbourne: Monash e-Press, 2010.

A slightly different version of this article is published in Korean Studies Forum (vol.4), 2010.

鈥淭he Korean Wave and Korean Americans鈥�聽in Korean Wave.聽Korea Herald, ed. Seoul, Korea: Jimoondang, 2008.

鈥淜orean Pop Culture Spreads Beyond Asia鈥� in Insight into Korea. Korea Herald, ed. Seoul, Korea: Herald Media, 2007.

鈥淲hat is Hallyu, the 鈥楰orean Wave?鈥欌�� News and Reviews (a publication of Asian Educational Media Service at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Summer, 2007.

In Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia. Charles Armstrong, Gilbert Rozman, Samuel Kim and Stephen Kotkin, eds. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2006.

(co-authored with Paul Y. Chang). Journal of Korean Studies 10 (1), 2005.

Amerasia Journal30 (1), 2004.

This article is reprinted in 鈥淭he Borders in All of Us: New Approaches to Three Global Diasporic Communities.鈥� William Little, Selase Williams, Irene Vasquez, Munashe Furusa and Jung-Sun Park, eds. Trenton, NJ: New World African Press, 2006.

This article is also reprinted in a catalog of a transnational art exhibition titled transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix. Seoul: Arko Art Center, Arts Council of Korea, 2008.

鈥溾�橩okakukidotai鈥� ni miru identity mondai: Cyber jidaino kyokai shimpan, fuan, soshite kibo (The Question of Identity in 鈥楪host in the Shell鈥�: Breached Boundaries, Anxiety and Hope in the Cyber Age).鈥� Yuriika (Eureka: Poetry and Criticism) 36-4 (491). Tokyo, Japan, 2004.

In Feeling 鈥淎sian鈥� Modernities: Transnational Consumption of Japanese TV Dramas. Koichi Iwabuchi, ed. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004.

Y艒ksa Bipy艒ng (Critical Review of History) 58: Spring. Seoul, Korea, 2002.

In Koreans in the 'Hood: Conflict with African Americans. Kwang Chung Kim, ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Book Reviews

Hesung Chun Koh, ed. New Haven: East Rock Institute. Journal of Asian Studies 70 (1), 2011.

Media Quotations

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In by Lyndsie Bourgon. Maclean鈥檚. August 10, 2012.

In 鈥淪hould Foreign Athletes Get Special Naturalization?" by John Power. Korea Herald. June 4, 2012.

In 鈥淧eacock Parade: Men in China Take Grooming to an Entirely New Level鈥� by Lara Farrar. ELLE Canada. November, 2011.

In 鈥淐es pop stars qui servent les ambitions cor茅ennes鈥� by Yann Rousseau. Les Echos. October 26, 2011.

In by Ulara Nakagawa. The Diplomat. April 27, 2011.

In by Ulara Nakagawa. The Diplomat. April 22, 2011.

In by Ulara Nakagawa. The Diplomat. February 1, 2011.

In by Ulara Nakagawa. The Diplomat. January 1, 2011.

In by Ulara Nakagawa. The Diplomat. December 24, 2010.

In by Ulara Nakagawa. The Diplomat. October 29, 2010.

In by Ulara Nakagawa. The Diplomat. October 27, 2010.

In by Ulara Nakagawa. The Diplomat. October 26, 2010.

In by Ulara Nakagawa. The Diplomat. October 25, 2010.

In by Ulara Nakagawa. The Diplomat. October 22, 2010.

In by Hana Alberts. Forbes.com. April 11, 2008.

In 鈥淲ho the Hell is Daniel Henney?鈥� by Ada Tseng. Asia Pacific Arts. UCLA Asia Institute. March 7, 2008.