Faculty

Education

• Ph.D. , UC Berkeley



Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

• Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008-2009   



Description of Research

Research Keywords

Korean Film and Culture; Contemporary East Asian Visual Culture; Trans-Asian Cinema; Tourism Studies; Cultural Studies



Publications




Book

• Kyung Hyun Kim and Youngmin Choe (Ed.). (2012). The Korean Popular Culture Reader. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press (Forthcoming 2013).



Book Chapter

• Choe, Y. (2008). "Affective Sites: Hur Jin-ho's Cinema and Film-induced Tourism in Korea." In Asia on Tour: Exploring the Rise of Asian Tourism. pp. 109-126. London, New York: Routledge.



Journal Article

• Choe, Y. (2013). "The DMZ in Korean Cinema, 1999-2003". The Journal of Korean Studies. (Fall 2013)
• Choe, Y. (2010). "Transitional Emotions: Boredom and Distraction in Hong Sang-su's Holiday Films". Korean Studies (University of Hawaii Press). Vol. 33



New Courses Developed

• Transnational Korean Cinema, EALC 509, 2012-2013   
• Introduction to Korean Film, EALC 333, Spring 2012   
• Topics in Korean Visual and Cultural Studies: "Feelings in Korean Popular Culture", EALC 465, Spring 2012   
• Proseminar in Korean Cultural History, EALC 532, Fall 2011   
• Travel in Korean Visual Culture, EALC 499, Spring 2010   
• Contemporary Korean Film and Culture, ARLT 100G, Fall 2009   



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