Research Faculty

Jiyoon KIM

Jiyoon KIM

Assistant Professor
Department of Pioneering Asian Studies,
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
jiyoonkim[at]
Research theme: Socio-cultural histories of global mobility and global imagination in Korea

Socio-cultural histories of global mobility in Korea

Research Topics

Jiyoon Kim is an assistant professor at Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia in the University of Tokyo and working for GAS (Global Asian Studies) Initiative at IASA, started in 2022. She was trained in the fields of media and cultural studies as well as interdisciplinary Asian studies in South Korea and Japan. Her research examines socio-cultural histories of global mobility both as imagined and institutionalized, and she has been working on this topic mainly with South Korean cases in the 1980s since her PhD project.

Research activities

Report
  • Jinwoo Choi, Jiyoon Kim, Saemee Kim, ChunHeung Mo, Jiwon Suh, Dal Yong Jin, Junsung Han. “Revitalization of Hallyu Content: ASEAN Region’s Perspective”: Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2021. (in Korean) [Link]
Articles and Book Chapters
  • Kim, Jiyoon. “‘The Danger Anyone Can Encounter’: Security Education Film, Overseas Travelers, and the Location of Global Mobility in South Korea in the 1980s.”Korea Journal 64(1) 2024.3: 123-156. [Link]
  • Kim, Jiyoon. “Mutual Perception, Invisible Boundaries, and Clustered Diversity in Asia.”Asian Student Survey Working Paper Series_3(E) 2022.1.
  • Sojeong Park, Jiyoon Kim, Siyeon Jang, Taejun Chae. “샘 오취리의 스타 이미지 분석을 통해 본 한국 다문화주의의 발전과 한계(A Study on the Development and Limitations of Korean Multiculturalism through the Analysis of Sam Okyere’s Star Image).”Media, Gender & Culture 36(1) 2021.3: 99-143. (in Korean) [Link]
  • Marcia C. Schenck, Jiyoon Kim. “A Conversation about Global Lives in Global History: South Korean overseas travelers and Angolan and Mozambican laborers in East Germany during the Cold War.”L’Atelier du Centre de recherches historiques 18 2018.2: 1-28. [Link]
  • Jiyoon Kim, Mi-Ae Ok. “‘북한/North Korea’를 키워드로 한 Google의 ‘이미지 검색 결과’에 나타나는 언어ㆍ지리ㆍ정치적 차이에 대한 연구(Analysis of Linguistic, Geographical, and Political Difference in Google Images: through two keywords, ‘Buk-han’ and ‘North Korea’).”Korean Association For Communication & Information Studies, Working Paper 2009.5: 521-545. (in Korean) [Link]
  • Ye-ran Kim, Dan-bi Yoo, Ji-yoon Kim. “인종, 젠더, 계급의 다문화적 역학: TV ‘다문화적 드라마’의 초국적 사랑 내러티브와 자본주의 담론을 중심으로(Disarticulated dynamics of ethnicity, gender and class Analysis of transnational love narrative and capitalism discourse in TV ‘multicultural dramas’).”Media & Society 17(1) 2009.2: 2-41. (in Korean) [Link]
  • Sang-Gil Lee, Seul-Hi Lee, Jiyoon Kim. “스크린 테크놀로지의 다양화와 영화소비 경험의 변화 : 20대 다운로드 파일 영화 수용자들에 대한 질적 연구를 중심으로(Diversification of screen technologies and transformation of experience of film consumption – A qualitative study on young movie downloaders).”Media & Society 16(2) 2008.5: 148-189. (in Korean) [Link]
Conference
  • Kim, Jiyoon. “How Is Foreignness Mediated?: Yiyang-in and the Performers in Korean Historical Drama.” Presented at the AAS-in-Asia 2024, July 9 2024.
  • Kim, Jiyoon. “Global mobility in the 1980s in South Korea.” Presented at the 1st Global Asian Studies Joint Workshop, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, March 24 2023.
  • Kim, Jiyoon. “Securitizing mobility and the location of traveling women: the case of education film of the 1980s in South Korea.” Presented at the IFJP-ACWS 2022 Conference, July 22 2022.
  • Jiyoon Kim, co-authored. “Fan Activity as Labor: Korean reality show Produce 101 and its audience.” Presented at the IAMCR Conference 2018, June 2018.
  • Kim, Jiyoon. “Aspiration and Anxiety: Contesting global imaginaries of the 1980s in South Korea.” Presented at the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Conference 2017, July 2017.
  • Kim, Jiyoon. “‘The Education Ought to be Taken’: the cultural politics of overseas travel in South Korea during the 1980s.” Presented at the Princeton-KOVIC Workshop “The Cold War in Korean Cinema”, June 2016.
  • Jiyoon Kim, co-authored. “Conflicting ‘Realities’ in-between Korea and Japan: The meaning of Asahi’s withdrawal of reporting on ‘Comfort Women’ in 2014.” Presented at the 66th ICA Annual Conference, May 2016.
  • Kim, Jiyoon. “Overseas/Foreign Travel Experience and Korea’s Globalism in the 1980s.” Presented at the GHC (Global History Collaborative) First Annual Summer School, September 8 2015.
  • Kim, Jiyoon. “How to Catch ‘Drifters’?: Reflections on my drifting ‘field research’.” Presented at the Joint Workshop: The University of Tokyo – Free University Berlin, February 2014.
  • Kim, Jiyoon. “‘Fair Travel’ as Global Justice Movement.” Presented at the IACS Graduate Conference, July 1 2013.
  • Kim, Jiyoon. “‘Being Global, Being Me’: An analysis on youth travel discourses in Korea from the late 1980s.” Presented at the Cultural Typhoon 2013, July 2013.
  • Kim, Jiyoon. “‘Asian Backpacker’s Two Different Enclaves.” Presented at the 2013 Joint Workshop University of Tokyo and University Duisburg-Essen, January 2013.
  • Kim, Jiyoon. “Neither Counterculture Nor Subculture: A Criticism on the Existence of Contemporary Travel Culture in Korea and Japan.” Presented at the 2012 SNU-UT Symposium, November 10 2012.
  • Kim, Jiyoon. “On the Move: An explorative research on the correlation between travel experience and social activism from comparative perspective.” Presented at the 2011 Asia Barometer Workshop, December 2011.
  • Kim, Jiyoon. “Displaying Nation at the Airport of a Cosmopolitan City: Edo-street in the new Haneda airport and building national identity.” Presented at the 2011 IAMCR Conference, July 14 2011.
  • Kim, Jiyoon. “A Study on Cultural Experience and Identity (Re)Formation of Long-Term Backpackers: From the perspective of globalization.” Presented at the 7th Inter-Asia Cultural Typhoon, July 2009.
  • Jiyoon Kim, co-authored. “The Birth of World Music Genre: How bossa-nova has become popular in Korea?” Presented at the ACS Crossroads Conference 2008, July 2008.
  • Kim, Jiyoon. “A New ‘Style’ of ‘Subculture’: An introductive research of Shibuya-key music audience in Korea.” Presented at the Rikkyo-Yonsei International Conference, October 2007.
  • Kim, Jiyoon. “Theoretical Re-consideration of Subculture/Sub-cultural Capital for Research in Korean Youth Culture.” Presented at the Cultural Studies Camp for young researchers, August 2007. (in Korean)
  • Jiyoon Kim, co-authored. “Movie Downloads and the Transformation of Experience of Film Consumption: A Qualitative Study on Young Korean Film Viewers.” Presented at the ICA Annual Conference, May 2007.
  • Kim, Jiyoon. “The Radio after ‘Internet Radio’ in the Digital Age: Changes with the Introduction of ‘Radio Messenger’ Service.” Presented at the NUS-Yonsei University Joint Conference, January 2007.

Experience

YearEducation
Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan
M.A. in Visual Communication, Yonsei University, South Korea
B.A. in Mass Communication, Yonsei University, South Korea
YearAcademic experience
Yonsei University, Graduate School of Communication & Arts, South Korea (2021-2022)
Yong In University, South Korea (2021-2022)
Cultural Studies Summer Camp (2022)