Korean Studies Scholars and Organizations
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@thekpopprof.bsky.social
@bonnietilland.bsky.social
University Lecturer in Korean Studies at Leiden University. Scholar of South Korean gender, family, education, media, and environment.
@yinyuan.bsky.social
English prof at Saint Mary’s. Research on postcolonial lit and East Asian pop culture. Co-founder and co-editor of @mentmagazine mentmagazine.com
@beetrootfox.bsky.social
Instructor, The University of Chicago Korean History, historiography, history of the book, print culture, manuscript culture, printing technology, reading, archives, translation https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/Graeme-Reynolds
@fmr-h.bsky.social
UCLA-ALC PhD | Ho Family Foundation Buddhism Public Scholar | Associate Editor, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review https://tricycle.org/author/franallohiggins/ buddhism, occult, philosophy, religion, science, language, art, music, and other nonsense 🇺🇸🇰🇷
@samjam258.bsky.social
Sam James, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Communication at Auburn University. Fulbright research alum 🇰🇷 Fan scholar obsessed with organizing and labors of love💚
@flormendez.bsky.social
Lectora, autora, diplomada en Estudios Coreanos y maestranda en lo mismo 🇰🇷🇦🇷 eng/esp/한
@joeykim.bsky.social
Professor, poet, scholar, parent Work on global 19th c. lit, romanticism, Asian American lit, K-culture 🇰🇷, and creative writing Books: Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation, Body Facts: Poems www.joeyskim.com
@alexlipke.bsky.social
Programme Coordinator at ECFR's Asia Programme📍Berlin EU-East Asia Relations with a focus on the Korean Peninsula
@nan-kim.bsky.social
contemporary history, political ecology, nuclear things, protest memory | Associate Professor of History @UW-Milwaukee | Regional Editor criticalasianstudies.org | Councilor seaa.americananthro.org | recovering trail runner, post-injury
@victordcha.bsky.social
@andysaulim.com
Deputy Director & Fellow @korea.csis.org - Korea 🇰🇷, alliances, Chinese economic coercion - Koreanists starter pack: https://go.bsky.app/U3Nm5FX - Personal website: andysaulim.com - Moonlighting at @citylightsofchina.bsky.social
@metropolitician.bsky.social
Visual sociologist studying how Korea shapes global trends. Professor at Korea National University of Arts, UC Berkeley PhD. Cultural consultant for Fortune 500. Documenting Seoul's digital communities through ethnographic editorial. #korea #hally
@frafrassineti.bsky.social
Non-Resident Fellow at Asaninst & ispionline | Teaching at Ca'Foscari University of Venice | Research interests in Korean Politics and History, Defense and Security in East Asia | she/her | usual caveats apply
@jihyunahn.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Global Media Studies @ U. of Washington Tacoma | Author of Mixed-Race Politics and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in South Korean Media (2018) | Currently writing a book about anti-Korean sentiment in postcolonial East Asia | she/her
@korea.csis.org
@csis.org Korea Chair is an independent platform from which to advance major policy issues of common importance to the Korean & American people. Follow our team: @victordcha.bsky.social @andysaulim.com
@dotorious.bsky.social
Feminist geographer, UCLA prof. #Koreanstudies. 📚 Co-author of Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in S Korean Protest (2025); 📚 Author of Queer Throughlines: Spaces of Queer Activism in S Korea and the Korean Diaspora (2025). judyhan.com
@koreapro.bsky.social
Daily analysis on South Korea's foreign policy, politics and the economy. Produced by the team behind @nknewsorg. On Mastodon at @koreapro@federated.press
@nhoalee.bsky.social
Prof. Cultura y Literatura Coreanas UCM 🇰🇷 Traductora KO-ES📚🎞 Sin divulgación no hay sentido💫 La de los libros coreanos 💬
@etorressimon.bsky.social
Translator, researcher, mother. Korean Studies at UAB. K-lit in Spanish. I do Wikipedia, conferences & volleyball. Check K-lab.online! ☺️
@miraethegamedr.bsky.social
Trained Korean/Informatics/Games Researcher. esports, Serious games, game design. Situating games as a meaningful textual lens to understand social interactions, culture, and globalization. I also cycle, cook, and sail. 한/영
@professordavidoh.bsky.social
Associate professor at Syracuse University | Studies race, U.S. and Korean media cultures, and audience reception
@hallyulikedonna.bsky.social
Korean/Asian/American music and culture aca-fan/multi-stan. Associate Prof. in ethnomusicology. Author of Stepping in the Madang (2024, Wesleyan) and trying desperately to maintain hope in humanity. CSIS US-Korea NextGen Scholar 24-25.
@38north.org
Informed analysis of events in and around the DPRK. A publication of the Stimson Center. Innovative Ideas Changing the World.
@larrytm-phd.bsky.social
PhD in Biocultural Medical Anthropology | male body image and eating disorders | South Korea | Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Psychiatry | posts/views are my own https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gW-GYcoAAAAJ&hl=en
@dubstepindprk.bsky.social
North Korea analyst, prof of security studies & researcher of dictatorships. Wrote a book in 2021 on 🇰🇵-3rd World ties. Most importantly: dad & husband. Views my own. https://benjaminryoung.weebly.com/
@johnggrisafi.bsky.social
PhD in Religious Studies, Yale University | Korean religions, Korean Studies, Asian religions, religion & modernity, discursive study & epistemology of religion, politics of religion, religion & place, historiography/memory of religion, marginal religions
@munhakjin.bsky.social
The exiled East Asianist in far-off Tatooine...also known as Merced.
@sayakachatani.bsky.social
Historian at NUS. Studying and teaching East Asian history; Japanese empire; Zainichi Koreans. sayakachatani.com Grassroots Operations of the Japanese Empire: primary sources translated for teaching purposes -> japaneseempire.info
@barbarasv.bsky.social
Investigación|Divulgación de arte coreano 🇰🇷. PhD candidate. KF Research Fellow en Hongik University (Seúl). Miembro fundador de ADECCE.
@stevendenney86.bsky.social
🎓 Assistant Professor at Leiden University 📚 Migration & Governance, Nationalism, East Asia & the Koreas 🏠 https://scdenney.net/
@ritadurao.bsky.social
PhD candidate in International Relations at NOVA University of Lisbon, PT • Researcher IPRI • Area studies, focus on security of East Asia, North Korea, nuclear weapons and identity politics • Also interested in EU foreign and security policy to the region
@jdimoia.bsky.social
Professor, Seoul National University, Korean History, Seoul resident (1995-1996, 2004-2006, 2007-2008, 2018-present), affiliated with SNU STS, editor #SJKS (2022- ) #ModernKorea, History of Medicine, History of Science #EASTM, #SKdevelopmentalism #SK&SEA
@jamiedoucette.bsky.social
Reader in Human Geography @ University of Manchester. Author of The Postdevelopmental State: Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea (Michigan: 2024, OA). Co-Editor: Developmentalist Cities? (Brill/Haymarket 2019). North sea surfer
@yasanggok.bsky.social
남미에서 한국학을 배우는 것입니다 / Korean Studies in Latin America. 토픽 2급. 漢字와 漢文의 歷史는 관심이 많습니다. 🗣️ : Castellano, Português, English, 한국어, 普通话, 日本語.
@elmerveldkamp.bsky.social
Teaching and research on Korea and East Asia. Modern heritage, museums, everyday culture.
@brittrobinson.bsky.social
🇰🇷Korea-focused Gender Advocate. ✍🏽 Founder and CEO of #&Daughters. Board Member at National Association for Black Engagement with Asia #NABEA. Washington, DC.
@jennargibson.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of Chicago focused on diplomacy including diplomatic rhetoric, public and cultural diplomacy, and U.S.-Korea relations. 2x Fulbright Korea alum. K-pop researcher and fan. Pfp from Taybee on Picrew.
@nayoungbishoff.bsky.social
PhD Scholar of Shakespeare Adaptation | Literature and Korean Pop Culture | Media Studies | Gender Studies @ George Washington University Published in Literature/Film Quarterly, Borrowers and Lenders, and The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare
@kiylee.bsky.social
Higher Ed Coach & Career Strategist | Host of Rise with Clarity Podcast | Former Tenured Professor of Ethnomusicology (Korean music/culture) | I post on topics connected to US politics, Resistance, Korea(s), AAPI, Music, and Higher Ed. RisewithClarity.com
@irhesohn.bsky.social
I'm a historian of East Asian film and media (Korea focus) at Smith College. Do not expect anything interesting here. I'm using this to keep me sane and alive.
@joelfving.bsky.social
Dean Global (Korea Engagement) at Curtin University in Western Australia Assoc Prof Korean Society and Culture Director Korea Research and Engagement Centre (Curtin University)
@amethystjazz.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at CU Boulder; Chinese & Korean cultural studies; media, ecologies, phenomenology; comedy. Sound and noise, signifying everything.
@ourcosmicepoch.bsky.social
PhD student in Korean Studies @Stanford Obsessed with @djuna01 ’s science fiction Speculative Fiction, K-Pop Fandom, Gender and Sexuality Studies
@jawoch.bsky.social
Modern Korean literature & visual culture, Rutgers University, jwechung.com
@jinsookkim.bsky.social
Feminist media scholar | Assistant professor, Media Studies, Emory University | Writing a book about digital media, online misogyny, and feminist activism in South Korea | she/her | Views my own www.jinsookkim.com
@remcobreuker.bsky.social
Ongenuanceerde Koreanist des moederlands | (N-)Korea/history/human rights/Prof Leiden 한국/고려/북한/역사/레이덴대학교수| boek-De Koreaanse golf | #WOinActie | editor Korean Histories | https://linktr.ee/remcobreuker | https://www.amboanthos.nl/auteur/remco-breuker/
@mellquistlehto.bsky.social
Anthropologist of Technology and Society. Formerly Harvard Divinity, University of Toronto, & Arizona State University. Now I'm building conversations between scholarship and a greater public as CEO of @justdropin.bsky.social JustDropIn.io
@retrogradeboy.bsky.social
Biologist by trade, straight outta Gangnam Right now, it's all Korea all the time
@nabibabi.bsky.social
오지라퍼😄 homo narrans, 🐒, narrative studies, Korea, China, Japan, 西遊記, wild swimmer&runner, Korean/Asian Studies Copenhagen
@jackwgreenberg.bsky.social
Independent Researcher and Freelance Writer. Fmr 🇨🇦 Global 🇰🇷 Scholar. 고려대학교 and McGill Alumnus. ‘Ggachi’ on Substack. Words: @southkoreapro, @koreatimescokr, @asianlabour, @asiancha. Based in Yeongcheon/Seoul. 📧 jwgreenberg@outlook.com
@koreanindie.bsky.social
Independent Korean music blog. Helping you discover new Korean artists and bands from around the world. Koreanindie.com | http://spoti.fi/30le | 📷 @Koreanindie
@math48.bsky.social
Visiting Assistant Professor of Korean Studies @CMU & K-pop fandom(s) researcher | K-pop, research, and random 헛소리 in FR, EN, KR | 👨🏻💻 🏳️🌈 • he/him, il/lui
@pilarm.bsky.social
Photographer, writer Korean Studies / Photography Studies Madrid SP/EN/한 MiCorea @micorea.bsky.social & VesAsia @vesasia.bsky.social
@rjamesyork.bsky.social
Think tanker, Korean history PhD, shill for Big Competency and purveyor of snark.
@sixwang.bsky.social
History of early modern Korea/ Choson Korea 此道沈霾多歷年，喜君占斗斸龍泉。我學淵明貧至骨，君豈有意師無弦。蕭灑自非侯爵命，道人胸中有水鏡。
@benjaminaengel.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at Dankook University. Research interests: Korean modern history, US-Korea relations, democracy and human rights
@areum.bsky.social
👩🏻🏫Researches & teaches Korean film, pop culture, theatre & performance at ASU 📚Beyond the Sewol (U of Hawaii Press, Sep 2025) & K-pop Fandom (U of Michigan Press, Feb 2026) forthcoming 📧areumjeong@gmail.com
@uncannydazzler.bsky.social
Teacher of the youths. Scholar of comics, media, and popular culture. Fan of all things Alison Blaire. Music enthusiast. First-generation academic. Xennial. ENFJ. Current writing projects revolve around transmedia storyworlds in K-pop.
@therealdecoster.bsky.social
Higher ed, academic integrity, internationalization, comparative ed, 그리고 분명히 한국에대한 모든것. All opinions mine. Let me know if you want to hear how Elmo would say something. Cookie Monster also passable.
@novemberbeetle.bsky.social
I write korean romantasy & NA 26. September 2025: Prinzessin der tausend Diebe - Betrayed 💌 Repped by: @erzaehlperspektive.bsky.social Website: www.theahong.de https://wonderl.ink/@novemberbeetle
@thekpopprof.bsky.social
human- a professor of #Korean and East Asian Studies. Research on performing arts (traditional mask dance dramas, K-pop and hip-hop), media, museums, tourism... #kpop #kdramas 한/영. 합기도, cycling, food, coffee