Alex Jong-Seok Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 148161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Jong-Seok Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex Jong-Seok |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-0836-8323 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
South Korea as a “Racial Retreat
The heightened appeal of South Korea, particularly Korean men’s desirability among White Western women, is often credited to Hallyu (the Korean Wave). This article argues that local dynamics, what I term a “racial retreat,” enable these couplings and recalibrate rather than reverse racial hierarchies. Based on ethnographic research in Korea (2014–2023), I suggest that Korea’s racialized context, marked by Whiteness and Korean male hegemony, shape…
Good Luck Soup
Employing a verite style somewhere in between experimental home videos and gorilla filmmaking, Good Luck Soup is Matthew Hashiguchi’s complex love letter to family, identity and tradition in the ce
Manly Colors
South Korea and its mobile citizens provide a fruitful point of entry for observing how US-based racial hierarchies shift and circulate through and against transnationally and locally inflected ideologies of race, nation, gender, and sexuality. This article explores how the Korean state’s aspirations for global significance and regional dominance express themselves as staged presentations of ostensibly superior Asian masculinity at home (in Asia)…
Global Identifications
My social identity as a diasporic Korean American male sometimes engendered doubts about my competency as a cultural anthropologist of South Korea. Such ethnonational gatekeeping by my ‘native’ Korean colleagues laid bare broader critiques of ‘the West’. Paradoxically, they also prompted re-entrenchments of nativeness (and implicitly, non-nativeness) by my colleagues despite their increasingly ‘non-native’ transnational identities. These embodied…
South Korea as a “Racial Retreat
The heightened appeal of South Korea, particularly Korean men’s desirability among White Western women, is often credited to Hallyu (the Korean Wave). This article argues that local dynamics, what I term a “racial retreat,” enable these couplings and recalibrate rather than reverse racial hierarchies. Based on ethnographic research in Korea (2014–2023), I suggest that Korea’s racialized context, marked by Whiteness and Korean male hegemony, shape…
Global Identifications
My social identity as a diasporic Korean American male sometimes engendered doubts about my competency as a cultural anthropologist of South Korea. Such ethnonational gatekeeping by my ‘native’ Korean colleagues laid bare broader critiques of ‘the West’. Paradoxically, they also prompted re-entrenchments of nativeness (and implicitly, non-nativeness) by my colleagues despite their increasingly ‘non-native’ transnational identities. These embodied…
Manly Colors
South Korea and its mobile citizens provide a fruitful point of entry for observing how US-based racial hierarchies shift and circulate through and against transnationally and locally inflected ideologies of race, nation, gender, and sexuality. This article explores how the Korean state’s aspirations for global significance and regional dominance express themselves as staged presentations of ostensibly superior Asian masculinity at home (in Asia)…
Good Luck Soup
Employing a verite style somewhere in between experimental home videos and gorilla filmmaking, Good Luck Soup is Matthew Hashiguchi’s complex love letter to family, identity and tradition in the ce
South Korea as a “Racial Retreat
The heightened appeal of South Korea, particularly Korean men’s desirability among White Western women, is often credited to Hallyu (the Korean Wave). This article argues that local dynamics, what I term a “racial retreat,” enable these couplings and recalibrate rather than reverse racial hierarchies. Based on ethnographic research in Korea (2014–2023), I suggest that Korea’s racialized context, marked by Whiteness and Korean male hegemony, shape…
Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (1 work) · Asian values (1 work)