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Jungmo Youn is a Fellow at the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics. He holds a PhD in Communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he wrote his dissertation titled 'Circe Wicked Charms: Dialectical Mediation Time South Korea’s Cultural Formation 1980s.' This work delves into the historical processes shaping South Korean popular culture and its interplay with middle-class mentalities and labor class concepts. Before joining LSE, Youn taught cultural theories and East Asian media history at Hong Kong Baptist University and Beijing Normal University for three years. His research examines the historical mediation of middle-class mentalities within social employment and the media technology landscape of East Asia, with a focus on China, Japan, and South Korea. Currently, he is expanding his doctoral thesis into a book manuscript while conducting ethnographic research in China and Japan. Additionally, Youn is engaging in collaborative archival research aimed at tracing the East Asian concept of the bourgeois individual and its spatial ties to Manchuria during the 1930s. His expertise lies in critical cultural studies, cultural media history, and political economy.
Department of Economics