Research Interests
- Modern Korea
- Intellectual and cultural history
- Japanese colonialism
- Popular culture
- Transnational studies
My early work was in the field of intellectual and political history of the Korean nationalist movement in the 1920s. I have always had a keen interest in ideology and the general issue of political identity formation. Since the late 1980s, I have shifted towards an examination of the cultural history of Korea during the period Japanese rule.
