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
  • 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
  • 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

 

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
  • 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.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31395-5_7
 
Invited Book Chapters:
  • 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)

Research Reports:

  • Heo, J. C., Kim, J. H., Choi, J. H., Choi, J. W., Kim, S. H., & Kim, S. S. (2023). 국제사회의 중국 담론에 대한 분석과 시사점 (Discourse on China in the International Society and Its Implications). KIEP Policy Analyses(PA) 23-31, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4864482 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4864482
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