Associate Professor Hyung-A Kim
Areas of expertise
- Comparative Government And Politics 160603
- Studies Of Asian Society 169903
- Government And Politics Of Asia And The Pacific 160606
Research interests
Korea's contemporary politics and society; the role of the state and the power elite; the politics of networking.
Biography
I grew up in South Korea and completed my postgraduate degrees of Dip. Ed at Melbourne University, and MA and PhD at the Australian National University. My PhD dissertation was a study of "Park Chung Hee's Self-Reliance Ideology, 1961-1979: Modernization and National Restoration under President Park Chung Hee". I authored Korea's Development under Park Chung Hee: Rapid Industrialization 1961-1979, RoutledgeCurzon (2004), Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979: Development Political Thought, Democracy and Clutural Influence, Seattle: University of Washington Press (2011) (with C Sorensen) and many articles including "Industrial Warriors: South Korea's First Generation of Industrial Workers in Post-Developmental Korea," Asian Studies Review (2013); "President Roh Moo-Hyun's Last Interview and the Roh Moo-Hyun Phenomenon in South Korea," Journal of Contemporary Asia, December 16 (2016) among other articles. I served as Founding-Director of the Australia-Korea Leadership Forum at the ANU (2008-9) and I taught in the Department of Sociology, Yonsei University, South Korea, as Distinguished Professor (2014).
Career highlights
Associate Professor, Korea Politics and History, and Director of the Australia-Korea Leadership Forum at the Australian National University; Senior Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong (2004); Research Fellow at Wollongong and Newcastle Universities (2002-2003); Visiting Associate Professor, Linfield College, Oregon, USA (1998-99).
Publications
- Cribb, R & Kim, H 2018, 'Out of Power and On Trial: The Corruption Trials of Former Leaders in East Asia', Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1-17pp.
- Kim, H 2017, The departure and disgrace of Park Guen-hye, pp. 1-3pp.
- Kim, H 2017, Post-Impeachment Scenarios Split South Korea, pp. -.
- Kim, H 2017, Park's impeachment unlikely to end South Korea's political saga, pp. electronic publication.
- Kim, H 2016, South Korea's THAAD crisis.
- Kim, H 2016, South Korea under fire for missile defence plan.
- Kim, H 2016, Park fights for survival after violation of 'divine right', pp. 1-7pp.
- Kim, H 2016, Is this the beginning of Park Geun-hye's fall, pp. -.
- Kim, H 2015, South Korea's deepening youth unemployment crisis.
- Kim, H 2015, South Korea's generation of discontent.
- Kim, H 2015, History wars: Park's conservative wedge politics.
- Kim, H 2015, Korea's history wars are not only happening in the North.
Projects and Grants
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- South Korean Skilled Workers: From Industrial Warriors to Labor Aristocracy since 1973 (Primary Investigator)