Meet our speakers, who are active leaders in the T.I.M.E. (Technology, Information, Media, Entertainment) areas.
Eun-Mee Kim
Professor, Dept. of Communication, ITCT Studies, Seoul National University
After spending a couple of years working at a marketing research firm in Seoul after college, Kim Eun-mee soon realized an executive in a marketing firm is not her life goal. She turned her wheel and went on to Northwestern University in Evanston, a suburban town near the Windy City Chicago for PhD in Communication Studies. She thinks she was lucky enough to have met her advisor Dr. Wildman, who was an economist teaching on media industry-related issues. Under his guidance Kim was able to be exposed to a variety of areas, many times crossing the borders of academic disciplines, including communication, marketing, technology and management.
Back in Korea, she began to teach at Kookmin University and Yonsei University before taking a current position as a professor in Communication at Seoul National University.
She would characterize her life track so far as nomadic. She was too curious to dive deep into one area of study (which she oftentimes thinks of as her weak point), has moved from one university to another more than an average academician in Korea, and is currently in charge of running an interdisciplinary program in Information Science and Culture.
She loves travelling, walking aimlessly around the city, reading books unrelated to her own study, and chatting with her colleagues, a lot of times from different disciplines. She has served as visiting scholars at London School of Economics and Fudan University. The experiences of living in London and Shanghai, for one year each, have become a great asset for her and broadened her horizons.
Her major research area has been social and cultural consequences of digital transformations. Within this umbrella area, she has recently concentrated on the topics of cultural consumption, cultural industries and adolescents’ digital media use and literacy. She has co-authored On Creativity and SNS Revolution: Myths and Practices.
Back in Korea, she began to teach at Kookmin University and Yonsei University before taking a current position as a professor in Communication at Seoul National University.
She would characterize her life track so far as nomadic. She was too curious to dive deep into one area of study (which she oftentimes thinks of as her weak point), has moved from one university to another more than an average academician in Korea, and is currently in charge of running an interdisciplinary program in Information Science and Culture.
She loves travelling, walking aimlessly around the city, reading books unrelated to her own study, and chatting with her colleagues, a lot of times from different disciplines. She has served as visiting scholars at London School of Economics and Fudan University. The experiences of living in London and Shanghai, for one year each, have become a great asset for her and broadened her horizons.
Her major research area has been social and cultural consequences of digital transformations. Within this umbrella area, she has recently concentrated on the topics of cultural consumption, cultural industries and adolescents’ digital media use and literacy. She has co-authored On Creativity and SNS Revolution: Myths and Practices.
