Dr. Seung-kyung Kim is the Korea Foundation Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and the Director of the Institute of Korean Studies at Indiana University. Her research focuses on gender, family, social movements, and transnational migration.
In her seminar, Dr. Kim studies the conflict of neoliberal principles with compulsory military service in South Korea. Drawing examples from an interview done with South Korean college students who have completed their military services between 2013-2017, Dr. Kim examines how South Korean millennial men plan for and experience their compulsory military service, as well as how they manifest their neoliberal ethoses during that process.
