Dr.Seung Soo Kim

NAME: Seung Soo Kim

OFFICE: 1111 Boromrajakumari Building

PHONE: 080-915-4079

EMAIL ADDRESS: Seung.S@chula.ac.th / punsu0307@gmail.com

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Media Studies, University of Colorado-Boulder, the United States, August 2016
  Dissertation: Imagining Religion and Modernity in Post-Colonial Korea
  Committee: Stewart Hoover (Chair), Nabil Echchaibi, Deborah Whitehead, Shu-Ling Berggreen, Peter Simonson
• M.A. in Visual Communication, Yonsei University, South Korea, February 2010
  Thesis: Neo-liberal Governmentality and the Composition of Identity of Protestant Subject: In-Depth Interviews with a Focus on a Korean
  Protestant Missionary Group.
  Chair: Sang Gil Lee
• B.A. in Psychology, Yonsei University, South Korea, February 2008

RESEARCH INTEREST

• Social Imaginary
• Religion and Media
• Digital Religion
• Korean Christianity and Buddhism

COURSES TAUGHT

• 2200338 Culture and Things
• 2210220 Theories of Cultural Studies
• 2200204 Media Cultures
• 2200205 Everyday Life Cultures
• 2200206 Media Histories

KEY PUBLICATIONS

Referred Journal Articles:

• Kim, S. S. (2025). Religion, Migration, Mediation: The Transnational Lives of Thai Religious Imaginaries in South Korea. Religions, 16(6), 748. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16060748 (AHCI, SCOPUS indexed)
  SCOPUS: https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105008963086?origin=resultslist
• Ryu, J. Y. & Kim, S. S. (2025). How They Became Allies: The Korean Protestant Regime of Truth and the Ethical Subjectivation. Journal of Homosexuality, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2025.2475380 (SSCI, SCOPUS indexed)
  SCOPUS: https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-105001121388&origin=recordpage
• Kim, S. S. (2017). Authenticity, Brand Culture, and Templestay in the Digital Era: The Ambivalence and In-Betweenness of Korean Buddhism. Journal of Korean Religions, 8(2), 117-146. https://doi.org/10.1353/jkr.2017.0015 (SCOPUS indexed)
  SCOPUS: https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85036521341&origin=resultslist

Referred Book Chapters:

• Kim, S. S. (2022). Not Transition, But Translation: A Dialogic Approach to ‘Differences’ in a Korean Diasporic Evangelical Church. In: Desai, A. & Nguyen, H.N. (Eds.), Global Perspectives on Dialogue in the Classroom (pp. 59-69). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89043-8_5 (SCOPUS indexed)
  SCOPUS: https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85158980222&origin=inward&txGid=d8bf72a108dbaea311610ac5d8bc5ea3
• Kim, S. S. (2021). Digital Media and Imperial Formations: The 2012 Lady Gaga Controversy in South Korea. In S. M. Hoover & N. Echachaibi (Eds.), Media and Religion: The Global View (pp. 159-179). Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter.  
  https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110497878-010
• Hoover, S. & Kim. S. S. (2016). Media. In D. Yamane (Ed.), Handbook of Religion and Society (pp. 117-132). Switzerland: Springer. (SCOPUS indexed)
  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31395-5_7 
  SCOPUS: https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85126018149&origin=resultslist

• Kim, S. S. (2018). Mediated Presence of Korean Religion in the Digital Era: Intersecting with Issues and Discussions of ‘Media and Religion’ Scholarship. In W. Y. Shin, K. H. Kim, & C. W. Kim (Eds.), Digital Korea: Digital Technology and the Change of Social Life (pp. 103-123). Republic of Korea: HanulMplus Inc. (ISBN: 9788946070783 93300)