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  Professor

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  Culture and Tourism

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Classes

Theories of Popular Culture（1st semester), Music and Tourism (2nd semester)

Class Content

Critical Reading in Popular Culture and Media/Urban/Tourism Spaces

I view various cultural phenomena that have been related to modernization, globalization, post-colonial, and post-modernism as a space in which the perspectives, desires, and strategies of nations, capital, and people work in a complex way.
In the seminar on popular culture studies, students will learn about the history, characteristics, and methodology of popular culture research. In particular, we think of the dynamism of popular culture, in which contemporary cultural, industrial, and social senses compete with each other nationally, locally, and globally.
In the seminar on media space studies, students learn about the relationship between media and urban/tourism spaces, as well as the mechanisms of their interaction, and then think about the ways in which the space is restructured, power is transferred, and daily life is expanded.

Brief Outline of History & Achievements

EDUCATION:
Ph.D., The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies.
M.A., Seoul National University, Graduate School of Department of Communication.

PUBLICATIONS (single authorship only):
Kim, Sungmin, Postwar South Korea and Japanese Popular Culture, Trans Pacific Press, 2023. (English)
Kim, Sungmin, K-POP: Media of New Sensitivity, Iwanami Shoten, 2018. (Japanese)/ 『K-POP 新感覚のメディア』（岩波新書、2018）
Kim, Sungmin, The Short History of K-POP, Geulhangari, 2018 (Korean)/ 『케이팝의 작은 역사-신감각의 미디어』(글항아리, 2018)
Kim, Sungmin, Post-War Korea and Japanese Culture: From Banning Japanese Style to Korean Wave, Iwanami Shoten, 2014 (Japanese) /『戦後韓国と日本文化――「倭色」禁止から「韓流」まで』（岩波現代全書、2014）
Kim, Sungmin, Bannng Japan: The History of Korean Popular Culture between Prohibition and Desires, 1945-2004, Geulhangari, 2017 (Korean) /『일본을 금하다-금제와 욕망의 한국 대중문화사 1945-2004』(글항아리, 2017)
Kim, Sungmin, Korea-Japan/People/Culture: Beyond the 1965 Regime, J&C, 2019 (Korean)/ 『한일/대중/문화: 1965년 체제를 넘어서』（서울대학교 일본연구소 리딩재팬 총서, 제이앤씨, 2019)

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Academic Society Affiliations

Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication, The Japan Sociological Society, The Japanese Association for the Study of Popular Music,

E-mail

kim@imc.hokudai.ac.jp

Research Areas

Media and Cultural Theory, Cultural Studies and History, Popular Music Studies

Interests

Homepage: https://kimsungmin.net/