John Y N Cho
Biographic Data
| ID | 4510460 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Y N Cho |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Y N |
| FAMILY NAME | Cho |
| SIGNATURE | CHO J Y N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5409-3674 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dulled Emotions and Dying Humanity”
This article examines the discourses surrounding the emergence and growing popularity of Korean-style gay bathhouses known as jjimjilbangs in Seoul. Drawing on two years of field research conducted by the author in 2001–3, as well as follow-up research carried out in the summers up to the present, the author argues that Korean gay men have contradictory experiences of pleasure and abjection within jjimjilbangs. Such contradictory experiences aris…
Good Sweat, Bad Sweat
Based on ethnographic field research, this article examines the “affectional community” of Internet-based gay sports groups in Seoul, South Korea. Referring to “networks of support that do not depend on the bonds of blood or the license of the state, but that are freely chosen and nurtured” (D’Emilio 1980), such affectional communities have been vital for the emotional survival of non-normative populations such as LGBTQ people. However, with the …
Weather Radar Network Benefit Model for Nontornadic Thunderstorm Wind Casualty Cost Reduction
An econometric geospatial benefit model for nontornadic thunderstorm wind casualty reduction is developed for meteorological radar network planning. Regression analyses on 22 years (1998–2019) of storm event and warning data show, likely for the first time, a clear dependence of nontornadic severe thunderstorm warning performance on radar coverage. Furthermore, nontornadic thunderstorm wind casualty rates are observed to be negatively correlated …
The Luxury of Love
Research Article| January 01 2020 The Luxury of Love: Neoliberal Single Gay Men in Recessionary South Korea John (Song Pae) Cho John (Song Pae) Cho John (Song Pae) Cho is a visiting assistant professor at Davidson College. His first book project, “Lifestyle Politics: South Korean Gay Men and the Internet,” documents the emergence—and retreat—of the so-called first generation of Korean gay men to become liberalized in the mid-1990s. His second boo…
‘Deferred Futures’
This essay examines the diverse imaginaries of gay retirement that have sprung up among the so-called 'first generation' of South Korean gay men in their 40s and 50s. During the liberalising period of Korean society in the mid-1990s, many encountered Westernised notions of gay identity and community for the first time in their lives. Inspired by films such as the 'Wedding Banquet' (dir. Ang Lee, 1994), they began to dream of creating a gay lifest…
Global fatigue
Mass migration characterizes the current moment of globalization. Constituting a particular subset of this global migration are Korean-American male English teachers who use the linguistic capital of English, commodified as the language of international communication, to exit from the United States and to return to South Korea as linguistic migrants, where they reassert their patriarchal privilege as Korean men. In the highly gendered and raciali…
The Wedding Banquet Revisited
This paper examines how Korean gays and lesbians negotiate South Korea's heteronormative system anchored in the heterosexual and patriarchal family through marriages of convenience ("contract marriages"). Korean gays and lesbians pursue contract marriages in order to fulfill their filial duties to marry, while maintaining their gay and lesbian lifestyles. Yet, in pursuing contract marriages as individuals but in the service of conforming to the f…
The Wedding Banquet Revisited
This paper examines how Korean gays and lesbians negotiate South Korea's heteronormative system anchored in the heterosexual and patriarchal family through marriages of convenience ("contract marriages"). Korean gays and lesbians pursue contract marriages in order to fulfill their filial duties to marry, while maintaining their gay and lesbian lifestyles. Yet, in pursuing contract marriages as individuals but in the service of conforming to the f…
Global fatigue
Mass migration characterizes the current moment of globalization. Constituting a particular subset of this global migration are Korean-American male English teachers who use the linguistic capital of English, commodified as the language of international communication, to exit from the United States and to return to South Korea as linguistic migrants, where they reassert their patriarchal privilege as Korean men. In the highly gendered and raciali…
The Luxury of Love
Research Article| January 01 2020 The Luxury of Love: Neoliberal Single Gay Men in Recessionary South Korea John (Song Pae) Cho John (Song Pae) Cho John (Song Pae) Cho is a visiting assistant professor at Davidson College. His first book project, “Lifestyle Politics: South Korean Gay Men and the Internet,” documents the emergence—and retreat—of the so-called first generation of Korean gay men to become liberalized in the mid-1990s. His second boo…
Dulled Emotions and Dying Humanity”
This article examines the discourses surrounding the emergence and growing popularity of Korean-style gay bathhouses known as jjimjilbangs in Seoul. Drawing on two years of field research conducted by the author in 2001–3, as well as follow-up research carried out in the summers up to the present, the author argues that Korean gay men have contradictory experiences of pleasure and abjection within jjimjilbangs. Such contradictory experiences aris…
Good Sweat, Bad Sweat
Based on ethnographic field research, this article examines the “affectional community” of Internet-based gay sports groups in Seoul, South Korea. Referring to “networks of support that do not depend on the bonds of blood or the license of the state, but that are freely chosen and nurtured” (D’Emilio 1980), such affectional communities have been vital for the emotional survival of non-normative populations such as LGBTQ people. However, with the …
The Wedding Banquet Revisited
This paper examines how Korean gays and lesbians negotiate South Korea's heteronormative system anchored in the heterosexual and patriarchal family through marriages of convenience ("contract marriages"). Korean gays and lesbians pursue contract marriages in order to fulfill their filial duties to marry, while maintaining their gay and lesbian lifestyles. Yet, in pursuing contract marriages as individuals but in the service of conforming to the f…
Global fatigue
Mass migration characterizes the current moment of globalization. Constituting a particular subset of this global migration are Korean-American male English teachers who use the linguistic capital of English, commodified as the language of international communication, to exit from the United States and to return to South Korea as linguistic migrants, where they reassert their patriarchal privilege as Korean men. In the highly gendered and raciali…
‘Deferred Futures’
This essay examines the diverse imaginaries of gay retirement that have sprung up among the so-called 'first generation' of South Korean gay men in their 40s and 50s. During the liberalising period of Korean society in the mid-1990s, many encountered Westernised notions of gay identity and community for the first time in their lives. Inspired by films such as the 'Wedding Banquet' (dir. Ang Lee, 1994), they began to dream of creating a gay lifest…
Weather Radar Network Benefit Model for Nontornadic Thunderstorm Wind Casualty Cost Reduction
An econometric geospatial benefit model for nontornadic thunderstorm wind casualty reduction is developed for meteorological radar network planning. Regression analyses on 22 years (1998–2019) of storm event and warning data show, likely for the first time, a clear dependence of nontornadic severe thunderstorm warning performance on radar coverage. Furthermore, nontornadic thunderstorm wind casualty rates are observed to be negatively correlated …
The Luxury of Love
Research Article| January 01 2020 The Luxury of Love: Neoliberal Single Gay Men in Recessionary South Korea John (Song Pae) Cho John (Song Pae) Cho John (Song Pae) Cho is a visiting assistant professor at Davidson College. His first book project, “Lifestyle Politics: South Korean Gay Men and the Internet,” documents the emergence—and retreat—of the so-called first generation of Korean gay men to become liberalized in the mid-1990s. His second boo…
Good Sweat, Bad Sweat
Based on ethnographic field research, this article examines the “affectional community” of Internet-based gay sports groups in Seoul, South Korea. Referring to “networks of support that do not depend on the bonds of blood or the license of the state, but that are freely chosen and nurtured” (D’Emilio 1980), such affectional communities have been vital for the emotional survival of non-normative populations such as LGBTQ people. However, with the …
Dulled Emotions and Dying Humanity”
This article examines the discourses surrounding the emergence and growing popularity of Korean-style gay bathhouses known as jjimjilbangs in Seoul. Drawing on two years of field research conducted by the author in 2001–3, as well as follow-up research carried out in the summers up to the present, the author argues that Korean gay men have contradictory experiences of pleasure and abjection within jjimjilbangs. Such contradictory experiences aris…
Asian Culture and Media Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (4 works) · Japanese History and Culture (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Queer (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)