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Dr. Jungmo Youn

KWI International Fellow

Akademischer Werdegang

10/2026-Present

  • KWI International Fellow at Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut | Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

12/2025 – 2026

  • Research Fellow, School of Creative Media  at the City University of Hong Kong, SAR

2022-2025

  • LSE Fellow, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economic and Political Science, UK

2019-2022

  • Lecturer, Division of Humanities and Social Science, Hong Kong Baptist University-Beijing Normal University United College, China.

2018-2019

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Media and Communications, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, S. Korea.

2008-2017

  • Doctoral Researcher, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • History of Culture and Media in East Asia(regional focus on Korea, Japan and China)

  • Critical Theory and Cultural Studies

  • History of Ideas and Knowledge-production

  • Global Media and Cultural Industry

  • Capitalist Modern Rationality


Publikationen (Auswahl)

  • Youn, Jungmo, “a Fox in search of ‘neo/non-liberal China”, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2026(0), 1-3.
  • Youn, Jungmo, “Louis Althusser’s Posthumous Revenge and Stuart Hall’s Solitude: The Theoretical Origin of Zeno’s paradox in cultural studies”, (Under review)
  • Youn, Jungmo, “Color Pollution between MTV and Arson: Cultural Legitimation of Korean Color Television, 1980-1984”, (Under review)
  • Youn, Jungmo, “No Circe with Wicked Charms: Dialectical Mediation of Time in South Korea’s Cultural Formation in the 1980s”,  University of Illinois, 2017. [Doctoral Dissertation]
  • Youn, Jungmo and Kim, Young Chan, ‘A Study on Culture of Production: An Ethnographic Approach towards a TV Entertainment News Program- A case study of KBS 2TV <Entertainment Weekly>’, Korean Journal of Broadcasting and Telecommunication Studies, 22:2, 2008, pp. 82-122.