COVID-19 has impacted economic and social conditions around the globe. In a post-
pandemic world, the labor models have been shifting in favor of working from home and …

This article examines how middle-aged urban men in South Korea relate to age-relevant
ideas of beauty in a society in which youthful muscular bodies are increasingly presented as …

Previous studies on the coming out and the mental health of sexual minorities have often
overlooked experiences in non-Western societies and the various patterns of coming out …

This study analyzes the ways in which media represent maternal femininity under the
context of neoliberalism and migration, and how diasporic housewives rework such …

South Korea, which has, for a long time, prided itself as a mono-racial nation, is
experiencing a significant shift in its demographic from racial homogeneity to multi-raciality …

This article explores the connection between the online commentary on the South Korean
novel, and later film, Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982 (2016; film released in 2019), and the …

In this dissertation, I examine the gendered and racial politics of women's transnational sex
tourism. I draw on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with women from Europe and …

Korean public broadcasters are reconstructing local fatherhood through two popular reality–
variety shows Dad! Where Are We Going?(MBC, 2013–2015) and The Return of Superman …

This study examines the AI imaginaries surrounding Lee Luda 1.0, a female AI companion
designed by Scatter Lab, a start-up company based in South Korea. While the company …

This doctoral thesis explores Vietnamese audience reception of soft masculinities, defined
by the aestheticisation and romantic idealisation of male characters, in South Korean …