Minkyu Sung
Biographic Data
| ID | 3677315 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Minkyu Sung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Minkyu |
| FAMILY NAME | Sung |
| SIGNATURE | SUNG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2146-4253 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What Part Are You Talking about? A Study of How Vague Expressions with Pubun (“Part”) Enhance Intersubjectivity in Korean Political Discourse
This study explores indexical meanings and pragmatic functions of the Korean noun pubun (“part”), especially when it is used as a bound noun to construct demonstrative pronoun structures. From a perspective of indexicality, our analysis shows that a major function of pubun is to avoid interpersonal conflicts by making it possible to construct and negotiate the meaning of what is being referred to. We also present how pubun functions contextually …
Crimes against Community
This essay argues that the success of South Korea’s COVID-19 responses—called “K-Quarantine”—is symptomatic of the country’s liberal politics in crisis. The therapeutic politics of K-Quarantine is enacted by an amalgam of moral guilt and legal liabilities for damages to the community, framing the COVID-stricken public as potential criminals against community. In this political context characterized by potential guilt, the public feel culpable if …
The rhetoric of the binge-eating body
In this short essay, I critically examine the ???eat-ins??? protest by South Korean right-wing populists who derided the hunger strikes of the bereaved family after the Sewol ferry incident in April 2014, in which 300 high school teenagers, teachers and crew drowned. This binge-eating spree in public caused an intense controversy about the ethics of mourning for tragedies that critics believe should be empathized among the community members. Enga…
The Triad of Colonialism, Anti-Communism, and Neo-Liberalism
This paper critically examines three intersectional hegemonic forces of maintaining a surveillance regime—the triad of colonialism, anti-communism, and neo-liberalism—that I argue are necessary for decolonizing surveillance studies in South Korea. I discuss South Korea’s Resident Registration System (RRS) as the contemporary incarnation of modern colonial power’s control over its colonial subjects, calling into question the maintenance of the col…
Surveillance and Anti-Communist Authoritarianism in South Korea
In this essay, I argue that anti-communist authoritarianism has still survived into the 21st century South Korean public sphere, having been intensified in the idea of jongbuk. Jongbuk combines jong (to follow) and buk (North Korea) ideologically labeling people who are presumed to blindly follow, or be willfully serve North Korea’s totalitarian regime. People who are labeled jongbuk, pro-North Korea followers, are not only stigmatized and margin…
The psychiatric power of neo-liberal citizenship
This essay discusses how North Korean settlers in South Korea are engaged in the rubric of neo-liberal citizenship to program the idea of an enterprise of free and autonomous selves. I call into question the psychiatric intervention in the North Korean population deprived of psychological capacities to be autonomous and responsible for their social life. My argument is that the psychiatric diagnosis of strange mental properties presents the crite…
The ‘truth politics’ of anti‐North Koreanism
This essay questions the 'truth politics' of anti-North Koreanism in which a 'genuine' figuration of North Korea is presumed to be achievable at the popular level. I define the truth politics of anti-North Koreanism as the political-cultural discursive formation obscuring the ideological powerfulness of anti-North Koreanism that hinges on 'the normality of nationalism'. The truth politics reinscribes and reinforces the populist and functionalist …
The psychiatric power of neo-liberal citizenship
This essay discusses how North Korean settlers in South Korea are engaged in the rubric of neo-liberal citizenship to program the idea of an enterprise of free and autonomous selves. I call into question the psychiatric intervention in the North Korean population deprived of psychological capacities to be autonomous and responsible for their social life. My argument is that the psychiatric diagnosis of strange mental properties presents the crite…
The rhetoric of the binge-eating body
In this short essay, I critically examine the ???eat-ins??? protest by South Korean right-wing populists who derided the hunger strikes of the bereaved family after the Sewol ferry incident in April 2014, in which 300 high school teenagers, teachers and crew drowned. This binge-eating spree in public caused an intense controversy about the ethics of mourning for tragedies that critics believe should be empathized among the community members. Enga…
The Triad of Colonialism, Anti-Communism, and Neo-Liberalism
This paper critically examines three intersectional hegemonic forces of maintaining a surveillance regime—the triad of colonialism, anti-communism, and neo-liberalism—that I argue are necessary for decolonizing surveillance studies in South Korea. I discuss South Korea’s Resident Registration System (RRS) as the contemporary incarnation of modern colonial power’s control over its colonial subjects, calling into question the maintenance of the col…
Surveillance and Anti-Communist Authoritarianism in South Korea
In this essay, I argue that anti-communist authoritarianism has still survived into the 21st century South Korean public sphere, having been intensified in the idea of jongbuk. Jongbuk combines jong (to follow) and buk (North Korea) ideologically labeling people who are presumed to blindly follow, or be willfully serve North Korea’s totalitarian regime. People who are labeled jongbuk, pro-North Korea followers, are not only stigmatized and margin…
The ‘truth politics’ of anti‐North Koreanism
This essay questions the 'truth politics' of anti-North Koreanism in which a 'genuine' figuration of North Korea is presumed to be achievable at the popular level. I define the truth politics of anti-North Koreanism as the political-cultural discursive formation obscuring the ideological powerfulness of anti-North Koreanism that hinges on 'the normality of nationalism'. The truth politics reinscribes and reinforces the populist and functionalist …
The psychiatric power of neo-liberal citizenship
This essay discusses how North Korean settlers in South Korea are engaged in the rubric of neo-liberal citizenship to program the idea of an enterprise of free and autonomous selves. I call into question the psychiatric intervention in the North Korean population deprived of psychological capacities to be autonomous and responsible for their social life. My argument is that the psychiatric diagnosis of strange mental properties presents the crite…
Surveillance and Anti-Communist Authoritarianism in South Korea
In this essay, I argue that anti-communist authoritarianism has still survived into the 21st century South Korean public sphere, having been intensified in the idea of jongbuk. Jongbuk combines jong (to follow) and buk (North Korea) ideologically labeling people who are presumed to blindly follow, or be willfully serve North Korea’s totalitarian regime. People who are labeled jongbuk, pro-North Korea followers, are not only stigmatized and margin…
The rhetoric of the binge-eating body
In this short essay, I critically examine the ???eat-ins??? protest by South Korean right-wing populists who derided the hunger strikes of the bereaved family after the Sewol ferry incident in April 2014, in which 300 high school teenagers, teachers and crew drowned. This binge-eating spree in public caused an intense controversy about the ethics of mourning for tragedies that critics believe should be empathized among the community members. Enga…
The Triad of Colonialism, Anti-Communism, and Neo-Liberalism
This paper critically examines three intersectional hegemonic forces of maintaining a surveillance regime—the triad of colonialism, anti-communism, and neo-liberalism—that I argue are necessary for decolonizing surveillance studies in South Korea. I discuss South Korea’s Resident Registration System (RRS) as the contemporary incarnation of modern colonial power’s control over its colonial subjects, calling into question the maintenance of the col…
Crimes against Community
This essay argues that the success of South Korea’s COVID-19 responses—called “K-Quarantine”—is symptomatic of the country’s liberal politics in crisis. The therapeutic politics of K-Quarantine is enacted by an amalgam of moral guilt and legal liabilities for damages to the community, framing the COVID-stricken public as potential criminals against community. In this political context characterized by potential guilt, the public feel culpable if …
What Part Are You Talking about? A Study of How Vague Expressions with Pubun (“Part”) Enhance Intersubjectivity in Korean Political Discourse
This study explores indexical meanings and pragmatic functions of the Korean noun pubun (“part”), especially when it is used as a bound noun to construct demonstrative pronoun structures. From a perspective of indexicality, our analysis shows that a major function of pubun is to avoid interpersonal conflicts by making it possible to construct and negotiate the meaning of what is being referred to. We also present how pubun functions contextually …
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)