Jung-Sun Park, Ph.D.
Professor of Asian-Pacific Studies
LCH B306 | 310.243.3224 | jpark@csudh.edu
Office Hours: MW 2:30 - 3:30pm; 5:30 - 6:00pm

Dr. Jung-Sun Park is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests include (trans)nationalism, (im)migration, citizenship, race/ethnicity, Korean/Asian popular culture (including Japanese comics and animation and East Asian cinema ), Asian Americans, Asian diaspora (especially Korean diaspora), politics of identity, class/gender/generational relationships, and community power relations.  She is author of "Chicago Korean Americans: Identity and Politics in a Transnational Community" (Routledge, forthcoming) and co-editor of "The Borders in All of Us: New Approaches to Three Global Diasporic Communities" (New World African Press, 2006).  She was a visiting scholar at the Asia Pacific Research Center at Stanford University (Fall 2003) 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 and South Korean citizenship.

Selected publications:

“Hanryu (The Korean Wave): Transnational Flows of South Korean Popular Culture.” (This is a multimedia course instruction for teaching hanryu and will be included in a volume edited by Young-mee Yu.) (forthcoming)

“The Growing Complexity of South Korean Legal Membership and Its Ramifications.”  Japan Focus (a refereed e-journal, accepted for publication). (forthcoming).

“The Success and Limitations of Japanese Comics and Animation in the U.S.: Can Korean Manhwa and Animation Follow Suit?” in Complicated Currents: Media Production, the Korean Wave, and Soft Power in East Asia.  Daniel Black, Stephen Epstein and Alison Tokita, eds.  Monash e-Press, Australia. (forthcoming in 2009)

A slightly different version of this article will be published in Korean Studies vol. 4, Seoul, Korea: Yonsei University Press.  (forthcoming)

“The Korean Wave and Korean Americans” in Korean Wave.  pp. 204-212.  Korea Herald, ed.  Seoul, Korea: Herald Media, 2008.

This is a reprint of an article published in Korea Herald on June 21, 2008.

“Korean Pop Culture Spreads Beyond Asia” in Insight into Korea.  Korea Herald, ed.  Seoul, Korea: Herald Media, 2007.

This is a reprint of an article published in Korea Herald on August 1 and 2, 2007.

“What is Hallyu, the ‘Korean Wave?’”  News and Reviews (a publication of Asian Educational Media Service at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Summer, 2007.

“The Korean Wave: Transnational Cultural Flows in East Asia.”  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.

“Contention in the Formation of National and Ethnic Identities in Global Context: The Case of the Overseas Korean Act” (co-authored with Paul Y. Chang). Journal of Korean Studies 10 (1), 2005.

“Korean American Youth and Transnational Flows of Popular Culture Across the Pacific.” Amerasia Journal 30 (1), 2004.

This article is reprinted in “The Borders in All of Us: New Approaches to Three Global Diasporic Communities.”  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.

“’Kokakukidotai’ ni miru identity mondai: Cyber jidaino kyokai shimpan, fuan, soshite kibo (The Question of Identity in ‘Ghost in the Shell’: Breached Boundaries, Anxiety and Hope in the Cyber Age).”  Yuriika (Eureka: Poetry and Criticism) 36-4 (491).  Tokyo, Japan, 2004.

“Korean American Youths’ Consumption of Korean and Japanese TV Dramas and Its Implications.”  In Feeling “Asian” Modernities: Transnational Consumption of Japanese TV Dramas.  Koichi Iwabuchi, ed.  Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004.

“Ashiagye Migukinedaehan ‘Tajahwa’wa Keu Munjejōm (The Problems of the ‘Otherization’ of Asian Americans).” Yōksa Bipyōng (Critical Review of History) 58: Spring.  Seoul, Korea, 2002.

“Identity Politics: Chicago Korean-Americans and the Los Angeles 'Riots'.”  In Koreans in the 'Hood: Conflict with African Americans.  Kwang Chung Kim, ed.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.