FASS Staff Profile

DR HYEJIN KIM
LECTURER (POLITICAL SCIENCE) CONVENER (GLOBAL STUDIES)
DEPARTMENT of POLITICAL SCIENCE

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Brief Introduction

Hyejin Kim joined the National University of Singapore in 2012. While she is teaching at the Political Science Department, she is the deputy-convenor of a new program, Global Studies. Before she joined NUS, she worked in the non-profit sector and private sector. She has degrees in Anthropology (BA), International Studies: China Studies (MA), and Global Affairs (PhD).


Teaching Areas

  • Global Issues (GL1101E). 100-250 students, mostly first-year.
  • Food Politics (PS4882H). 30 students in final year (seminar).
  • Readings in Global Studies (GL4101): Ethical Consumption. Seminar of 45 students.
  • Task Force (GL4102). 10-12 students, all honours students.
    • The theme the first time I taught this was solving the transboundary haze problem in Southeast Asia (January to April, 2016). I organized collaborations with the private sector (Cargill) and NGOs (WWF-Singapore), and led students on a field trip to an Indonesian palm plantation.
    • The second theme was plastic waste (January to April, 2018). I organized collaborations with WWF-Singapore and ASEF (Asia-Eruope Foundation). Students’ proposal will be used for WWF reports and they are also invited for a Europe-Asia Sustainability Conference in October in 2018, presenting their recommendations.
  • Managing Non-Profit Organizations (PS3262). 50-80 students.
  • Money and Politics (PS4881D). 30 students in final year (seminar).
  • Politics of Global Migration (PS4882D). 30 students in final year (seminar).
  • Global Corporations and Power (GL4881G). 30 students in final year (seminar).
  • Politics of the Korean Peninsula (PS4881G). 30 students in final year (seminar).
  • East Asia and the Global Food System. Graduate seminar of nine students taught at Seoul National University.

Research Interests

East Asian’s New Democracies; 

Local politics and informal associations in Korea and China;

Ethnic Politics;

National and Ethnic Identities;

Global Food System;

Global Education Trend and Neoliberalism


Publications

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

  • ACADEMIC BOOKS
    • Hyejin Kim, How Global Capital is Remaking Education: The Emergence of Transnational Education Corporations (Springer, forthcoming 2019).
    • Hyejin Kim, International Ethnic Networks and Intra-ethnic Conflict: Koreans in China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

     

    OTHER BOOKS

    • Jia: A Novel of North Korea (in English, Cleis Press, July 2007). ─ This book is a novel based on my interviews with North Koreans in China. It is reviewed in The New York Review of Books (14 August 2008).
    • Food of the World: China (in Korean, Sungha Publishers, April 2007). ─ I compiled stories about the origins of many common and not-so-common Chinese culinary dishes while living in China.
    • Why Does the World Rush to Peking University? (in Korean, Mulpure Press, 2002). ─ Based on my experiences working in Chinese schools and on interviews with Chinese educators at universities and schools, I wrote a book that elucidates the Chinese education system for Koreans considering study abroad.
    • Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era (Korean translation from English, Dongbang Media, 2001). ─ I translated this scholarly work from English into Korean, and marketed the translation to publishers.

    Journal Articles

    • Hyejin Kim and Erik Mobrand, Stealth Marketisation: How International School Policy Is Quietly Challenging Education Systems in Asia. Globalisation, Societies and Education.
    • Hyejin Kim, Shifting Modes of Activism in South Korea: Online Political Communication and the Mass Appeal of the 2016 Candlelight Movement in South Korea.
    • Hyejin Kim, Contending Visions of Local Agriculture in a Non-Agricultural State: Food Sovereignty in Singapore. Journal of Globalization Studies. Vol. 9 No. 2 (November 2018): 14-26.
    • Hyejin Kim, Transnational Korean Networks and Business in China. Europe-Asia Studies. Vol. 70, no. 7 (Oct. 2018): 1143-1158 [SSCI]
    • Hyejin Kim, Online Activism and South Korea’s Candlelight Movement. Made in China. Vol. 3. Issue 3 (July-September 2018): 86-89.
    • Hyejin Kim, ‘Spoon Theory’ and the Fall of a Populist Princess in Seoul. Journal of Asian Studies. Vol. 74, no. 4 (November, 2017): 839-849. [SSCI]
    • Hyejin Kim, The Rise of Transnational Education Corporations in the Asia Pacific, The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher. Vol. 25, No. 2 (April 2016): 279-286. [SSCI]
    • Hyejin Kim, A Link to the Authoritarian Past? Older Voters as a Force in the 2012 South Korean Presidential Election. Taiwan Journal of Democracy [International Bibliography of Social Sciences]. Volume 10, No. 2 (December 2014).

     

Other Information

Research grants and collaborations

  • Collaborator in project on South Korea’s “candlelight movement,” led by Professor Hee Min Kim of Seoul National University, 2017-18.
  • Panel co-organizer for session on “Local Food Movements in East Asia and Scandinavia” Asian Dynamics Initiative conference, University of Copenhagen, June 2017.
  • Participating researcher, Academy of Korean Studies (South Korea): Understanding Korea in Singapore textbooks. January – September, 2015.
  • Research grants: Staff Research Support Scheme, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, 2014-2015. 2012-2013.
  • Researcher, China-Korea Cultural Exchange Research Center, Dalian University (China), 2003.

Service in academia

  • External adviser for project on urban community building in Seoul and Singapore, 2017-18.
  • Reviewer of book manuscripts for Sage Publications (2014, 2018) and Routledge (2018).
  • Reviewer of proposals for the ‘Global Research Network Program,’ National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).
  • Referee of article manuscripts for Asian Journal of Social Science and The Asia Pacific Education Review.
  • Led successful grant application to the Korea Foundation for my faculty to host a grant-funded lecturer for two years, 2014-15.
  • Organizer of Global Studies Special Talk Series, NUS, 2014 - present.
  • Plagiarism committee member, Department of Political Science, 2013-15.

Invited presentations

  • Presentation at event on “Candlelight Democracy” in South Korea, Seoul, Sept. 27-29, 2017.
  • “Trends in Online Engagement.” Asia Pacific ICT Summit, Singapore, March 13, 2012.
  • Read Singapore, Singapore, May 2010.
  • The Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival, Hong Kong, March 11-19, 2010.
  • Shanghai International Literary Festival, Shanghai, March 7-10, 2010.
  • Singapore Writers’ Festival, Singapore, October 31, 2009.
  • “Relations with Governments: Working from Within v. Working from Without.” Presented at the American University, Cairo, Egypt, May 2009.
  • “Democracy.” Presented at the Cultura Internazionale Armando Verdiglione, Milan in Italy, November 28-30, 2008.
  • “Liberty.” Presented at the Cultura Internazionale Armando Verdiglione, Milan in Italy, July 2-6, 2008.
  • “Blogs and Politics.” Presented at the Global Voices Online Summit, Budapest in Hungary, June 27-30, 2008.
  • Book Talk: “Jia: A Novel of North Korea” Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore, May 8, 2008.

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