Seongcheol Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 3913631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seongcheol Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seongcheol |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Korea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6703-4465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 73 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 123 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 73 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
How employees of Korean franchise restaurants perceive older adult kiosk accessibility
This study examines how employees at franchise restaurants in South Korea perceive the accessibility of kiosks, which are increasingly replacing face-to-face service in the restaurant industry. While kiosks can enhance operational efficiency and reduce labor costs, they may also marginalize older adults, who often face barriers in digital environments. In a super-aged society like South Korea, ensuring equitable access to everyday services has be…
Soziale Bewegungen im postsowjetischen Raum
Article Soziale Bewegungen im postsowjetischen Raum: Aktuelle Entwicklungen im Schatten von Krieg was published on March 30, 2026 in the journal Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen (volume 39, issue 1)
From iron to diamond
Digital accessibility research from 1997 to 2024
Creator strategies in the platform economy
Fan identification and narrative transportation as determinants of perceived value of webtoon-based merchandise
Licensed merchandise is a key strategy for managing and leveraging one’s intellectual property (IP) assets. However, existing research offers a limited understanding of licensed merchandise in narrative entertainment, where consumer perceptions are shaped by both narrative engagement and fan identification. Therefore, this study explores how consumers in the entertainment industry perceive the value of licensed merchandise. Specifically, it exami…
How Korean platform startups survive in the era of platform dominance
Factors influencing the export of cultural and artistic copyright in the Korean media industry
Why do individuals use online video piracy websites
How do users contribute to YouTube channels’ revenue? An empirical analysis of Korean beauty channels
Factors influencing metaverse adoption among Korean soldiers
The metaverse is gaining attention as a catalyst for innovating digital ecosystems and related businesses; however, it presents both opportunities and risks. This study examines the factors influencing Korean soldiers' intention to use the metaverse, whose activities in the physical world are significantly constrained. An online survey was conducted, and partial least squares structural equation modeling was employed to analyze the research model…
Far‐right movement parties in Europe
Taking as a starting point the growing body of scholarship on movement parties of the far right, this research note undertakes a reflection on the boundaries of the movement party concept from two distinct angles – the established interactive‐mobilisational approach and the more recent discursive‐organisational one – and their empirical implications for the study of far‐right movement parties in Europe today. While the former approach's emphasis …
How to relieve mobile network overload from mobile over-the-top (OTT) traffic
Resilience in telecommunications networks
Do digital platform's unethical behaviors influence users' trust and intention to use alternative platforms
Niche analysis of competition among music streaming services in Korea
Towards an Antiwar Transnational Populism? An Analysis of the Construction of ‘the Russian People’ in Volodymyr Zelensky's Wartime Speeches
This article examines how the identity of the citizens or ‘the people’ of Russia is constructed in the wartime speeches of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. Drawing on a discursive approach to populism using post-foundational discourse analysis (PDA), the article first identifies in Zelensky's eve-of-invasion address an antiwar transnational populist construction of a common antiwar interest of ‘ordinary people’ in Russia and Ukraine agains…
The (anti-)political logic of authoritarian institutionalism
This paper develops the concept of authoritarian institutionalism — understood as a combination of authoritarianism as a form of discursive closure and institutionalism as a non-antagonistic construction of social relations following the logic of difference based on Laclau’s theory — which can yield insights from a discursive angle into the workings of “competitive authoritarian” regimes characterized by formally multi-party systems. Based on the…
Do artists perceive blockchain as a new revenue opportunity? A social representation study of the Korean music industry
Although blockchain has often been perceived as a game-changer that can revolutionize the music industry, it also retains possible challenges regarding the practicality of such innovative adoption. This study seeks to construe the realistic thoughts raised by artists regarding the new revenue opportunities arising from the adoption of blockchain in the Korean music industry. This involves the disintermediation of the obsolete music royalty distri…
Key traits of top answerers on Korean Social Q&A platforms
Despite the proliferation of tools available to search for information online, such as search engines and generative artificial intelligence (AI), many people still actively use social question-and-answer (Q&A) platforms. This study examines the best answerers on Korean social Q&A platforms as key content producers and potential entrepreneurs. The characteristics of the best answerers, who are the core contributors to social Q&A platforms, were a…
Breaking the board
In the historically male-dominated world of Go—a game with a rich history and a current global player base of 46 million—recent years have marked a significant shift in gender dynamics, highlighted by Choi Jeong’s historic achievement as the first female to reach the open major world tournament finals. This study investigates the rise of female Go players in Korea through multiple lenses: descriptive analyses cover demographic data, Elo ratings, …
Examining factors influencing the user’s loyalty on algorithmic news recommendation service
Based on user-related data, an algorithmic news recommendation service (ANRS) predicts users’ reading preferences and selectively recommends news. Given the double-edged opinions on ANRS, identifying and managing crucial factors influencing users’ satisfaction and trust in this service will be essential for service providers and developers. However, few studies have tried to find these factors or develop a more precise understanding of users’ per…
Predicting individuals’ privacy protection and self-tracking behaviors in the context of smart health
Barriers to playing digital games
Developing a conceptual framework for digital platform literacy
Because the homeland cannot be in opposition
Drawing on Ernesto Laclau's theory of discourse, hegemony, and populism, this paper analyses the development of the discourses of Fidesz in Hungary and Law and Justice (PiS) in Poland from opposition to power with a focus on how authoritarianism is articulated, especially in relation to populism. The post-foundational discourse analysis finds that populism takes on an authoritarian expression only in certain discursive combinations, mostly with n…
An institutional analysis of an e-government system for anti-corruption
Between illiberalism and hyper-neoliberalism
This paper draws on Laclau’s theory of discourse, hegemony, and populism to analyse competing forms of populism in the Czech Republic within the discursive context of ‘post-November transformation’ as well as in relation to hegemonic struggles over the construction of social order. It is argued that the discourses of Public Affairs (VV), ANO, Dawn of Direct Democracy, and Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) all feature a populist opposition betwee…
Radical democracy and left populism after the squares
Going jingo
This article explores the impact of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on party-system dynamics in Russia by analyzing the war-related communication of the five main "systemic opposition" parties, their leaders, and three Communist MPs who initially criticized the invasion. Examining their adoption of established pro-war regime propaganda (anti-Ukrainian, anti-Western, "Z-talk") or anti-war rhetoric, we assess the extent of rhetorical conver…
Taking stock of the field of populism research
This article sets out to examine two claims that have increasingly come to define the dividing lines between the ideational and the post-foundational discursive approaches to populism: namely, that the former is moralistic and the latter is normative in orientation. The article considers the conceptual merits of both critiques while using them to further examine some of the implicit assumptions and pitfalls within Cas Mudde’s and Ernesto Laclau’s…
Movement parties of the left, right, and center
The term "movement party" has gained widespread currency in the social sciences in recent years, finding extensive application to political parties ranging from the radical left (Della Porta et al., 2017) to the far right (Caiani & Císař, 2019; Pirro & Castelli Gattinara, 2018). Unlike with other academic buzzwords such as "populism," however, there is also a notable lack of readily identifiable and competing theoretical paradigms that have made …
Illiberal Democracy’ after Post‐Democracy
In taking stock of the ruling Fidesz party's project of ‘illiberal democracy’ in Hungary, this article first develops considerations based on Claude Lefort's democratic theory for critiquing ‘illiberal democracy’ and post‐democracy alike, situating the former in an early 2010s post‐democratic moment characterised by the emergence of a neoliberal crisis management regime in the Eurozone. ‘Illiberal democracy’ and ‘market‐conforming democracy’ are …
Factors influencing K-pop artists' success on V live online video platform
Between autonomy and representation
This paper sets out to think the relationship between horizontality and verticality from the perspective of post-foundational discourse theory, taking as a starting point the diachronic development from Laclau’s and Mouffe’s joint work on radical democracy to Laclau’s theory of populism. The argument here is that the shift in conceptual terrain from the autonomy of ‘democratic struggles’ to the representative function of ‘empty’ popular signifier…
Far‐right movement parties in Europe
Taking as a starting point the growing body of scholarship on movement parties of the far right, this research note undertakes a reflection on the boundaries of the movement party concept from two distinct angles – the established interactive‐mobilisational approach and the more recent discursive‐organisational one – and their empirical implications for the study of far‐right movement parties in Europe today. While the former approach's emphasis …
From Objectivist Bias to Positivist Bias
This article undertakes a critique of the attitudes approach to populism, predicated on survey-based operationalisations of populism as a set of attitudes. Our critique is threefold: first, the move of reducing ‘the elite’ to ‘the politicians’ in survey items – beginning with the foundational Akkerman scale – is at odds with the constructivist underpinnings of Mudde’s ideational definition that this literature largely draws on, where ‘the people’…
Performativity and political organization after the squares
A Typology of Postcommunist Successor Parties in Central and Eastern Europe and an Explanatory Framework for Their (Non-)Success
This article revisits the phenomenon of postcommunist successor parties – defined as the formal successor organizations of state-socialist ruling parties – in Central and Eastern Europe three decades after the transformative events of 1989–91 and two decades after the most recent period of sustained academic interest in the topic. The article begins with a critical reexamination of the late 1990s and early 2000s comparative politics literature on…
Users' Affective and Cognitive Responses to Humanoid Robots in Different Expertise Service Contexts
The uncanny valley (UCV) model is an influential human-robot interaction theory that explains the relationship between the resemblance that robots have to humans and attitudes toward robots. Despite its extraordinary worth, this model remains untested in certain respects. One current limitation is that the model has only been examined in general or context-free situations. Given that humanoids function in the world beyond laboratories, investigat…
Understanding User Resistance to Participation in Multihop Communications
1Multihop communications will be a key element and will play an important role in 4G wireless networks. To deliver multihop functionality successfully, user participation is imperative. Unfortunately, users of a network may not wish to forward data for others and consume their own scarce resources without rewards. There is an inherent tension between an individual's rationality and whole network welfare, reducing the viability of multihop communi…
The development of wireless telecommunications and local governments' policy responses
An institutional analysis of an e-government system for anti-corruption
Understanding User Resistance to Participation in Multihop Communications
1Multihop communications will be a key element and will play an important role in 4G wireless networks. To deliver multihop functionality successfully, user participation is imperative. Unfortunately, users of a network may not wish to forward data for others and consume their own scarce resources without rewards. There is an inherent tension between an individual's rationality and whole network welfare, reducing the viability of multihop communi…
Professional autonomy, group cohesion, and job complexity affect researchers' organizational commitment
We examined the effects of professional autonomy and group cohesion on the organizational commitment of research and development (R&D) professionals, taking into account the moderating role of job complexity in this relationship. Participants were 264 full-time researchers who each had over 5 years' tenure at an international information technology institute in South Korea, and who completed surveys assessing their professional autonomy, group co…
Does rule change cause activity change? An empirical study of online news comments in Korea
What will be the possible barriers to consumers’ adoption of smart home services
Radical democracy and left populism after the squares
Between illiberalism and hyper-neoliberalism
This paper draws on Laclau’s theory of discourse, hegemony, and populism to analyse competing forms of populism in the Czech Republic within the discursive context of ‘post-November transformation’ as well as in relation to hegemonic struggles over the construction of social order. It is argued that the discourses of Public Affairs (VV), ANO, Dawn of Direct Democracy, and Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) all feature a populist opposition betwee…
Investigating managers' understanding of chatbots in the Korean financial industry
Are female users equally active? An empirical study of the gender imbalance in Korean online news commenting
Movie characteristics as determinants of download-to-own performance in the Korean video-on-demand market
The impact of literacy on intention to use digital technology for learning
OTT and live streaming services
The far right today
Cas Mudde’s book The Far Right Today is a valuable and accessible guide to the state of far-right politics in a global perspective. Combining elements of a state-of-the-art research overview with a
Users' Affective and Cognitive Responses to Humanoid Robots in Different Expertise Service Contexts
The uncanny valley (UCV) model is an influential human-robot interaction theory that explains the relationship between the resemblance that robots have to humans and attitudes toward robots. Despite its extraordinary worth, this model remains untested in certain respects. One current limitation is that the model has only been examined in general or context-free situations. Given that humanoids function in the world beyond laboratories, investigat…
Factors influencing K-pop artists' success on V live online video platform
Because the homeland cannot be in opposition
Drawing on Ernesto Laclau's theory of discourse, hegemony, and populism, this paper analyses the development of the discourses of Fidesz in Hungary and Law and Justice (PiS) in Poland from opposition to power with a focus on how authoritarianism is articulated, especially in relation to populism. The post-foundational discourse analysis finds that populism takes on an authoritarian expression only in certain discursive combinations, mostly with n…
Das Ende eines Zyklus
Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden die Entwicklungspfade von Podemos in Spanien und La France Insoumise (LFI) in Frankreich bis zur jüngsten Bündnisbildung um Sumar bzw. NUPES skizziert und die aktuellen Entwicklungen beider Parteien vor diesem Hintergrund eingeordnet. Sowohl Podemos als auch LFI bilden Paradebeispiele für „Volksparteien neuen Typs“, die auf vertikal-plebiszitäre Bindungen zwischen einer zentralen Führung und einem breit partizipiere…
Users’ emotional and behavioral responses to deepfake videos of K-pop idols
Why is South Korea at the forefront of 5G? Insights from technology systems theory
The show must go on
Between Radical Democracy and Left Populism on the Margins
Von Lefort zu Mouffe. Populismus als Moment und Grenze radikaler Demokratie
In diesem Beitrag werden Chantal Mouffes jüngste Interventionen für den Linkspopulismus zum Anlass für eine theoretische Reflexion über das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Populismus und radikaler Demokratie genommen. Im Lichte der radikalen Demokratietheorien Claude Leforts, Jacques Rancières, Ernesto Laclaus und Chantal Mouffes, der Populismustheorie Laclaus sowie der einschlägigen Rezeption wird argumentiert, dass der Populismus sowohl konstituti…
Between autonomy and representation
This paper sets out to think the relationship between horizontality and verticality from the perspective of post-foundational discourse theory, taking as a starting point the diachronic development from Laclau’s and Mouffe’s joint work on radical democracy to Laclau’s theory of populism. The argument here is that the shift in conceptual terrain from the autonomy of ‘democratic struggles’ to the representative function of ‘empty’ popular signifier…
Far-Right Local Governments and Civil Society
The rise of far-right parties across Europe and their entrance into government at the local, if not regional or national, levels pose challenges for established civil society actors. This article draws on early findings from an ongoing research project in order to present two case studies of far-right local governments in small industrial towns in France and Italy: Hayange and Sant’Agata Bolognese. Keying in on these local administrations’ approa…
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