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Sungmin Kim
Sungmin Kim is a professor in the faculty of media and communication, Hokkaido University. His areas of expertise are media and cultural studies and sociology of music. He was assistant professor of interfaculty initiative in information studies at the University of Tokyo, visiting researcher in the Asian Studies Department at Georgetown University. He received BA in music composition and MA in communication from Seoul National University and Ph.D. in interdisciplinary information from the University of Tokyo. He is the author of Nikkan Popyurā Ongakushi: Kayōkyoku kara K-Pop no Jidai made (A Transnational History of Japanese and South Korean Popular Music: Kayōkyoku Era to K-Pop Era [Keio University Press, 2024]), Postwar South Korea and Japanese Culture (Trans Pacific Press, 2023) and K-Pop: Shinkankaku no Media (K-Pop: Media of New Sense [Iwanami Shoten, 2018]).
Contact: The Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University, Kita 17, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0817, Japan.