Younghoon Kim
Research Area
Education
Ph.D. University of Alberta, 2011
M.A. University of Alberta, 2006
M.A. Sogang University, 2004
B.A. Myong Ji University, 2002
Teaching
Research
Korean Popular Culture and National Identity
Korean Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Culture
Contemporary American TV Drama
Translation Practice and Culture
Fashion and Culture
Publications
Journal Articles
“Revisiting the South Korean Youth Culture and T’ongkit’a Music.” Popular Music and Society 45.5 (2022): Forthcoming. (A&HCI)
Lee, Eunbong, and Younghoon Kim. “Yoshikawa Eiji’s Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Its Ethical Values in South Korea.” Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature 6.1 (2022): 48-64. (A&HCI)
“Netflix and National Literature: Focusing on Anne with an E.” Journal of Teaching English Literature 26 (2022): 51-74. (KCI)
“Don Draper’s Suit: the Modern Male Identity and its Precariousness.” The New Studies of English Language & Literature 79 (2021): 1-17. (KCI)
“The Age of the Antihero in Contemporary American TV Dramas.” Journal of Teaching English Literature 24 (2020): 31-48. (KCI)
“Television Drama in the Post-Network Era.” Journal of Modern British & American Language & Literature 38.1 (2020): 39-59. (KCI)
“The Return of Anne of Green Gables: Focusing on Anne Shirley’s Psychological Self-Help and Emotional Narrative of Confession.” The New Studies of English Language & Literature 73 (2019): 25-42. (KCI)
“The Return of Ayn Rand and Her Entrepreneurial Heroes in the Age of Donald Trump.” Journal of Modern British & American Language & Literature 36.1 (2018): 43-63. (KCI)
“AMC’s Breaking Bad: Walter White and the Fall of the Neoliberal Subject.” The New Studies of English Language & Literature 70 (2018): 87-107. (KCI)
“HBO’s Boardwalk Empire: Enoch Nucky Thompson and the Fall of the American Dream.” New Korean Journal of English Language and Literature 60.4 (2018): 35-53. (KCI)
“America(ǝmérikǝ), Mirigyeonguk, Amiriga, Miguk(米國), Miguk(美國) and Once Again, America.” Comparative Korean Studies 24.1 (2016): 333-53.
Yi, Saearm, and Younghoon Kim. “Schooling and Shame: Focusing on Educational Environmental Survey.” Journal of Anthropology of Education 19. 2 (2016): 129-155. (KCI)
“The Birth of Korean Entrepreneurial Subjectivity in KBS TV Drama The Age of Ambition.” Journal of Humanity Sciences Studies 24 (2015): 25-47. (KCI)
Kim, Younghoon, Hyunjoo Yo, and Junha Jung. “American Studies in Korea: A Quantitative Analysis of the Articles in Journal of American Studies (1969-2014)” Journal of American Studies 47.2 (2015): 49-78. (KCI)
“The Performativity of Literature and its Ethical Engagements in D. H. Lawrence’s The Virgin and the Gipsy.” Forum for World Literature Studies 7. 1 (2015): 148-163. (Scopus)
“(De)Constructing the Sound of Nationhood in George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (1935).” Journal of American Studies 46.1 (2014): 273-290. (KCI)
“The Deconstruction of English Studies in Korean Universities and its (im)Possibility for the Future to Come.” The Journal of Teaching English Literature 18. 1 (2014): 83-106. (KCI)
“Rogue Cops’ Politics of Equality in The Wire.” Journal of American Studies 47. 1 (2013): 189-211. (A&HCI)
“President Bartlet’s Two Decisions on the War on Terror.” The Journal of Literature and Film 12. 2 (2011): 563-86. (KCI)
“A Capitalist State of Exception in David Milch’s Deadwood.” Studies in English Language & Literature 53. 1 (2011): 105-36. (KCI)
“The Revolt of Bare Lives and the Return to Normality in Heroes Season One: Genesis (2006-07).” English 21 24. 1 (2011): 203-18. (KCI)
*KCI stands for the Korea Citation Index.
Translation
Edna St. Vincent Millay. A Few Figs from Thistles. Seoul: Jimanji, forthcoming.
—. Second April. Seoul: Jimanji, 2023.
G. Bruce Boyer. True Style: the History and Principle of Classic Menswear. Paju: Prunsoop, 2018.
Giorgio Agamben. Nudities. Seoul: In-Gan-Sa-Rang, 2014.