Dr Jungmo Youn is an LSE Fellow in Department of Media and Communications at LSE.

Dr Youn holds a PhD in Communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

His doctoral dissertation, entitled No Circe with Wicked Charms: Dialectical Mediation of Time in South Korea’s Cultural Formation in the 1980s, examines a historical formative-process of Korean popular culture coevolved with middle-class mentalities in which Korean labor class conceptually reappropriated abstract time by concrete temporalities of nostalgia and imaginaries proposed by color TV, newly employed in the 80s.

Prior to joining LSE, Dr Youn has mainly taught cultural theories and East Asian media history in Hong Kong Baptist University-Beijing Normal University United International College for 3 years.

Dr Youn’s research is focused on exploring the historical mediation of middle-class mentalities and the social employment of media technology in East Asian capitalistic socialization process, especially in China, Japan and S. Korea, maintaining a comparative perspective on uneven modernization processes.

He is currently working on a book manuscript originated from his doctoral thesis and expanding his analysis of the 80’s Korea to include a comparative dimension in his current two ethnographic research on China and Japan under the working titles of Formation of Capitalistic Purgatory after Deng and Akahata and Time. Also, with his colleagues in China and Japan. Dr Youn is preparing a collaborative archival research, tentatively titled, Sorghum, Bandit and Nozomi, to trace the East Asian concept of bourgeois individual back to the spatial experiences of Manchuria in the 1930s.