Conference Presentations​

• 2021      “K-pop without Koreans? Racial Imagination and Boundary Making of K-pop,” Theorizing The Korean Wave, a conference organized by the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, April 9-10.

• 2021      “Narrating the Nation during the Global Pandemic: The “K-Quarantine” and Biopolitical Nationalism in the Era of COVID-19,” Narratives of COVID-19 in China and the World: Technology, Society, & Nations, a conference organized by the Center on Digital Culture & Society at the University of Pennsylvania, March 19-20.

• 2021      “Korean Wave and Anti-Korean Sentiment in Japan: Studying Japanese Female Fans' (Dis)Engagement with Hate Speech,” Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, March 17-21, Millennium Park, Chicago, U.S.A.

• 2020      “Between Love and Hate: The New Korean Wave and Anti-Korean Sentiment in Japan,” National Communication Association (NCA) 106th Annual Conference, November 19-22, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A. [accepted but not presented due to COVID]

• 2019      “MeToo Movement and Critique on Mass Media Reporting Style in South Korea,” Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS) 59th Annual Conference, Seattle, U.S.A., March 13-17, Sheraton Grand Seattle, U.S.A.  

• 2018      “They Completely Exceeded Us: Anti-Korean Sentiment in Taiwan and Transnational Geopolitics,” National Communication Association (NCA) 104th Annual Conference, November 8-11, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.

• 2018      “Anti-Korean Hate Speech and Colonial Racism Revisited: A View from Korean Residents in Japan,” Crossroad: Cultural Studies Biennial Conference, August 12-15, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China.   

• 2017      “Playing a ‘Korean Card’: Historicizing Anti-Korean Sentiment in Taiwan,” Inter-Asian Cultural Studies (IACS) Biennial Conference, July 28-30, Seoul, South Korea,  SungKongHeo University.

• 2016      “Televised Korean Dream: The Great Birth and Racial Politics in Survival Audition Program in South Korea,” National Communication Association (NCA) 102nd Annual Conference, November 10-13, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

• 2016      “The Social Production of Mixed-Race Population and the Making of a (New) Multicultural South Korea,” Negotiating Identities: Mixed-Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea, Center for Asia Pacific Studies, April 14-15, University of San Francisco.

• 2015      “Desiring Biracial Whites: Daniel Henney and Cosmopolitan Whiteness in Contemporary Korean Media,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Annual Conference, August 6-9, San Francisco, U.S.A.

• 2014      “Deconstructing the Myth of Monoracial Korea: Mixed-Race as a Framework,” Critical Mixed-Race Conference, Chicago, U.S.A., November 13-15, DePaul University.

• 2014      “Questioning the Cultural Currency of Whiteness: White Mixed-Race Celebrities and (Contemporary) Korean Popular Culture,” Cultural Typhoon Conference, Tokyo, Japan, July 28-29, International Christian University.

• 2013      “From National Threat to National Hero: Relocating Black Mixed-Race and Contesting National Identity in Contemporary South Korean Media,” National Communication Association (NCA) 99th Annual Conference, Washington D.C., U.S.A., November 21-24, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.

• 2013      “Your National Identity Will Be Televised: Television Viewing and New Media Use among South Korean International Students in the United States,” (with Claire Lee) National Communication Association (NCA) 99th Annual Conference, Washington D.C., U.S.A., November 21-24, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. TOP STUDENT PAPER AWARD

• 2013      “Rearticulating Black Mixed-Race in the Era of Globalization: Hines Ward and the Struggle for Koreanness in Contemporary South Korean Media,” Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS) 53rd Annual Conference, Chicago, U.S.A., March 6-10, The Drake Hotel.

• 2012      “Mixed-Race Koreans on Television: The Politics of Mixed-Race and the Formation of Racial Order in Korean Media,” Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS) 52nd Annual Conference, Boston, U.S.A., March 21-25, Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers.

• 2012      “Multiracial Television?: Racial Reconfiguration in Contemporary South Korean Television,” 3rdAnnual Transnational Asia Graduate Student Conference, Houston, U.S.A., February 10-11, Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University.

• 2011      “A Racial Project in Transition: A Discourse Analysis on Korean Multiculturalism in Global Era,” National Communication Association (NCA) 97th Annual Conference, New Orleans, U.S.A., November 17-20, Marriott and the Sheraton New Orleans Hotels.

• 2011      “Contesting Multicultural Korea: Multiculturalism and Korean Media,” 40thAnnual Southwest Conference on Asian Studies (SWCAS), San Antonio, U.S.A., September 30-October 1, Trinity University.

• 2010      “Imagining New Female Body: A Critical Study on Dr. Hwang’s Embryonic Stem Cell Study,” National Communication Association (NCA) 96th Annual Conference, San Francisco, U.S.A., November 14-18, Hilton Hotel.

• 2010      “Not Homosexual Enough, But Romantic Enough: ‘A Girl Masquerading as a Man’ Trend in Recent Korean TV Dramas,” Crossroads for Cultural Studies Conference (International), Hong Kong, June 17-21, Lingnan University.

• 2009      “Representing Immigrants and Framing Multiculturalism: Focusing on Korean TV program Love in Asia,” 38th Annual Southwest Conference on Asian Studies (SWCAS), Austin, U.S.A., October 16-17, UT-Austin.

• 2009      “Globalization and Racial Politics in Korean TV show: Focusing on A Chat with Beauties - Global Talk Show,” Global Fusion: New Directions in Global Media and International Communication, Austin, U.S.A., October 16-18, UT-Austin.

• 2007      “Reception of Multiculturalism Discourse and Discursive Formation of ‘Multicultural Society’ in Korea,” Graduate School Student Conference held by Korean Broadcasting & Telecommunication Studies, Seoul, Korea, August 17, Sungkyunkwan University. BEST THESIS AWARD FOR QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

• 2007      “Representing North Korea: An Analysis of News-Photos in Korea and the U.S,” (with Tae-Jin Yoon & Mi-Ae Ok), International Communication Association (ICA) 57th Annual Conference, San Francisco, U.S.A., May 24-28. (panel submission)

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Workshop Presentations ​ 

• 2016      Negotiating Identities: Mixed-Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea, (with nine selected participants), Center for Asia Pacific Studies, April 14-15, University of San Francisco. (fully-funded)

• 2014      The 6th Rising Stars of Korean Studies Workshop, (with eleven selected participants), USC Korean Studies Institute, October 10-11, The University of Southern California. (fully-funded)

• 2014      Trans-Asian Collaborative Workshop on Racism and Mixed-Race in East-Asia, Yonsei University, June 21-22, Seoul, Korea.

• 2012      Illinois/Indiana 6th National Dissertation Workshop for Asian Film and Media, (with five selected participants), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A., August 6-7, Illinois/Indiana East Asia National Resource Center Consortium. (fully-funded)

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Roundtables and Panels​

• 2021      “New Trends of Transnational Hallyu: Boundary Crossing or Boundary Making,” Panelist in the roundtable discussion at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, March 21-26.

• 2019      “A Comparative Study on Anti-Korean Sentiment in Taiwan and Japan,” Research talk presented at the fellowship colloquium organized by Academy of Korean Studies, Seoul, South Korea, November 27.

• 2019      “Mixed-Race Koreans and Multiculturalism in South Korean Popular Media,” Invited as a speaker of the 80th Societas Koreana Lecture Series organized by Academy of Korean Studies, Seoul, South Korea, October 16. 

• 2019      “Faculty Panel on International Engagement,” Invited as a panelist at the faculty professional development program jointly hosted by the Office of Research and the Office of Global Affairs, February 26.

• 2019      “Korean Wave and Anti-Korean Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia,” Invited as a guest speaker at the Global Ambassadors program organized by the Office of Global Affairs at UWT, February 15.

• 2018      “Global Security: North Korea and Nuclear Diplomacy,” Invited as a panelist of the interactive speaker series “Global Classroom” jointly hosted by UWT Institute of Global Engagement, the SIAS Division of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs, and the World Affairs Council Tacoma, April 17.

• 2016      “Race, Research, and Anti-racist Methodologies,” Invited as a panelist at the roundtable workshop organized by the UW Office of Research and Center for Equity & Inclusion.

• 2016      “Imagining a Korean Obama? Mixed-Race Politics in South Korean Media,” Research talk presented at the SIAS Brown Bag Series, UWT Faculty Resource Center.

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