Seonah Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 4218869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seonah Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seonah |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9528-8550 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Asian Baby Girl transformation phenomenon on YouTube
Asian Baby Girl (ABG) represents a prominent second-generation Asian American archetype rooted in the 1980s and 1990s, where youth navigated sociopolitical constraints by creating a distinct culture that challenged historical legacies of exclusion and the ‘forever foreign’ portrayal of Asians. Their particular aesthetic has gained prominence among Asian American beauty creators on YouTube within the past five years, particularly through ABG trans…
The Somatechnics of Plastic Surgery in South Korea
Whiteness construction in South Korean digital spaces
Oliver-ssaem, a White American and former English teacher in South Korea, has risen to prominence as a YouTube content creator exploring both Korean and American cultures. His intentional role as a cultural intermediary between Korea and the U.S. highlights how he strategically employs his Whiteness to enhance visibility. When targeting Korean viewers, Oliver-ssaem not only praises and endorses the excellence of Korean culture and products but al…
Critical Complete-Member Ethnography Revisited
In this essay, I engage in autoethnographic reflection on my role as a native researcher, addressing questions and issues related to evaluating a researcher's complete-membership in Critical Complete-Member Ethnography (CCME). I revisit CCME as a critical communication research method and introduce two contextual elements -the geopolitics of transnational mobility and cultural belongingness- to enhance the depth of self-reflection that CCME can e…
De-/Re-Whitening Russianness
This study investigates the representations of white ethnic identities in Non-Summit, a Korean television show, to disaggregate the generalized perception of homogenous whiteness and argue for a dialectical construction of white power and domination in Korea. Specifically, it focuses on representations of Russianness in Non-Summit in relation to the US Americanness, contextualized within post-Cold War and globalized cultural politics prevalent in…
Queer Korea
What does it mean to be postcolonial, feminist/queer, and radically resistive in studying the politics of nonnormative sexual and gender identities? Edited by Todd Henry, Queer Korea suggests answers to this question through ten essays written by critical scholars whose disciplinary field is diverse in history, anthropology, cultural studies, linguistics, and literature. In particular, Queer Korea is a helpful book for those of you—like me—who ha…
Consuming Ali Abdul
This article examines the representation of Ali Abdul, the Pakistani character in the global Netflix hit Squid Game. While Ali has been celebrated for increasing South Asian representation in Korean media, we contextualize his portrayal through the lens of Korean multiculturalism. In doing so, we consider how the representation of Ali reflects the conditional acceptance of migrant men established by state-led Korean multicultural policies and pol…
Zoom -in/ Zoom -out Transnational Identities
De-/Re-Whitening Russianness
This study investigates the representations of white ethnic identities in Non-Summit, a Korean television show, to disaggregate the generalized perception of homogenous whiteness and argue for a dialectical construction of white power and domination in Korea. Specifically, it focuses on representations of Russianness in Non-Summit in relation to the US Americanness, contextualized within post-Cold War and globalized cultural politics prevalent in…
The Somatechnics of Plastic Surgery in South Korea
Whiteness construction in South Korean digital spaces
Oliver-ssaem, a White American and former English teacher in South Korea, has risen to prominence as a YouTube content creator exploring both Korean and American cultures. His intentional role as a cultural intermediary between Korea and the U.S. highlights how he strategically employs his Whiteness to enhance visibility. When targeting Korean viewers, Oliver-ssaem not only praises and endorses the excellence of Korean culture and products but al…
Critical Complete-Member Ethnography Revisited
In this essay, I engage in autoethnographic reflection on my role as a native researcher, addressing questions and issues related to evaluating a researcher's complete-membership in Critical Complete-Member Ethnography (CCME). I revisit CCME as a critical communication research method and introduce two contextual elements -the geopolitics of transnational mobility and cultural belongingness- to enhance the depth of self-reflection that CCME can e…
Zoom -in/ Zoom -out Transnational Identities
Queer Korea
What does it mean to be postcolonial, feminist/queer, and radically resistive in studying the politics of nonnormative sexual and gender identities? Edited by Todd Henry, Queer Korea suggests answers to this question through ten essays written by critical scholars whose disciplinary field is diverse in history, anthropology, cultural studies, linguistics, and literature. In particular, Queer Korea is a helpful book for those of you—like me—who ha…
Consuming Ali Abdul
This article examines the representation of Ali Abdul, the Pakistani character in the global Netflix hit Squid Game. While Ali has been celebrated for increasing South Asian representation in Korean media, we contextualize his portrayal through the lens of Korean multiculturalism. In doing so, we consider how the representation of Ali reflects the conditional acceptance of migrant men established by state-led Korean multicultural policies and pol…
De-/Re-Whitening Russianness
This study investigates the representations of white ethnic identities in Non-Summit, a Korean television show, to disaggregate the generalized perception of homogenous whiteness and argue for a dialectical construction of white power and domination in Korea. Specifically, it focuses on representations of Russianness in Non-Summit in relation to the US Americanness, contextualized within post-Cold War and globalized cultural politics prevalent in…
Critical Complete-Member Ethnography Revisited
In this essay, I engage in autoethnographic reflection on my role as a native researcher, addressing questions and issues related to evaluating a researcher's complete-membership in Critical Complete-Member Ethnography (CCME). I revisit CCME as a critical communication research method and introduce two contextual elements -the geopolitics of transnational mobility and cultural belongingness- to enhance the depth of self-reflection that CCME can e…
The Somatechnics of Plastic Surgery in South Korea
Whiteness construction in South Korean digital spaces
Oliver-ssaem, a White American and former English teacher in South Korea, has risen to prominence as a YouTube content creator exploring both Korean and American cultures. His intentional role as a cultural intermediary between Korea and the U.S. highlights how he strategically employs his Whiteness to enhance visibility. When targeting Korean viewers, Oliver-ssaem not only praises and endorses the excellence of Korean culture and products but al…
The Asian Baby Girl transformation phenomenon on YouTube
Asian Baby Girl (ABG) represents a prominent second-generation Asian American archetype rooted in the 1980s and 1990s, where youth navigated sociopolitical constraints by creating a distinct culture that challenged historical legacies of exclusion and the ‘forever foreign’ portrayal of Asians. Their particular aesthetic has gained prominence among Asian American beauty creators on YouTube within the past five years, particularly through ABG trans…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works)