Publications
As a scholar with research interests in digital and media literacy education, intercultural communication, and cultural competence, I have authored and contributed to numerous journal articles, book chapters, and reports. Below is a selected list of my written publications, which will be updated periodically as I add PDF files or links to the full text. If you need a copy of any of these articles or would like to discuss them further, please feel free to contact me through the website’s contact page. I would be happy to send it to you.
Translated Book (Korean)
I translated Create to Learn: Introduction to Digital Literacy by Renee Hobbs into Korean:
Selected Book Chapters & Journal Articles (English)
- (Forthcoming) Views of North Korean resettlers on media and media literacy education: A 10-Year comparison of resettlers’ experiences and perspectives, Locating North Korea in Communication Research (edited by Seungahn Nah, Soomin Seo, Yong-Chan Kim, Dal Yong Jin), Routledge (February, 2025)
- ‘K-Education’ during the Pandemic: What Covid-19 has revealed about schooling in the most wired country in the world (with Hyeon-Seon Jeong & Amie Kim), The Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-Pandemic (edited by Yonty Friesem, Usha Raman, Igor Kanižaj & Grace Y. Choi), Routledge (2022) https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003283737
- Media Literacy in South Korea (with Hyeon-Seon Jeong & Amie Kim), The International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy (edited by Renee Hobbs & Paul Mihailidis), Wiley, (2019). DOI: 10.1002/9781118978238.ieml0163
- Media Literacy with New Immigrants. The International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy (edited by Renee Hobbs & Paul Mihailidis), Wiley, (2019) DOI: 10.1002/9781118978238.ieml0128
- Ideocratic legitimation in North Korea: Its history and challenges. Ideocracies in Comparison: Legitimation, Co-optation, Repression (edited by Uwe Backes & Steffen Kailitz), Routledge, 2015, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315725925 (This book is an updated English edition of Legitimation, Integration und Repression. I made significant updates and revisions from the previous version of this article that was published in 2014.)
- Ideocratic legitimation in North Korea. Ideokratische Regime. Legitimation, Integration und Repression. (edited by Uwe Backes & Steffen Kailitz), Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (2014)
- North Korean refugees in South Korea: Using videos for storytelling, healing and unification. Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue. (edited by Ulla Carlsson & Sherri Hope Culver) Goteborg, Sweden: NORDICOM (2013)
- Online Digital Media in Elementary Schools: Promoting Cultural Understanding. (with Renee Hobbs, J., Al-Humaidan, R., Ebrahimi, A., Cabral, N. (2011). Journal of Middle East Media, 7 (1), 1-23.
- Field-Based Teacher Education in Elementary Media Literacy as a Means to Promote Global Understanding (with R. Hobbs, N. Cabral, A. Ebrahimi, & R. Al-Humaidan), Action in Teacher Education, 33(2), 144-156 (2011).
- The Power of Voice: North Koreans Negotiating Identity and Social Integration via Mediated Storytelling, In T. Tufte & F. Enghel (Eds.), Yearbook 2009: Youth Engaging With the World: Media, Communication and Social Change. Goteborg, Sweden: NORDICOM (2009).
- The Development of Media Literacy in Russia: Efforts from Inside and Outside the Country, In L. Marcus (Ed.), Issues in Information Literacy and Media Literacy: Criticism, History and Policy. Santa Rosa, CA: Informing Science, 189-213 (2009).
- The Transnational Reach of Korean Popular Culture in Asia: Influences of the Korean Wave on Understandings of Korea and Pan-Asian Identity, Asian Cinema, 19(2), 292-305 (2008).
- Creating Empowering Environments in Youth Media Organizations (with R. Hobbs), Youth Media Reporter (2008).
- South Koreans Scholars Studying North Korean Movies, Asian Cinema, 18(2), 160-179 (2007).
Selected Book Chapters, Journal Articles, Reports (Korean)
- 청소년 미디어 이용 실태 및 대상별 정책대응방안 연구 Ⅰ: 초등학생 – 해외사례 조사 (한국청소년정책연구원, 2020) – Research on Youth Media Use and Policy Responses by Target: Survey of Overseas Cases (National Youth Policy Institute)
- 해외의 다문화 미디어 교육 실천 사례 (한국언론진흥재단, 2018). Media literacy and multicultural education: Cases and practices outside Korea. (Journal of Media Literacy by Korean Press Foundation , 5, 18- 23).
- Media Literacy for North Korean Refugees: New Understanding and Approaches (in Korean), Journal of Media Education, 1(2), 119-158 (2010).
- NAMLE (National Association for Media Literacy Education) and Media Literacy Education in the United States (in Korean), Journal of Media Education, 1(1), 137-149 (2010).
- Diverse Cultures and Media Education (with J. Ahn, K. Jeon, Y. Kim, & H. Park) (in Korean), Seoul, South Korea: Broadcasting & Communication Promotion Bureau (2009).