Current Position: Associate Professor Youngmi Kim Central European University Nador utca 9 Budapest 1051, Hungary Email: kimy@ceu.hu Phone: +36-1-3273000/2091 Director, Korea Foundation Global E-School in Eurasia Project Department: International Relations and European Studies (joint appointment with Public Policy) Central European University ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS PhD in Politics/East Asian Studies School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, UK Dissertation title: Minority coalition government and governability in South Korea: The case of the Kim Dae-jung administration (1998-2003). Awarded: February 2007. MSc by Research in Politics School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK Awarded: October 2002 MA in Politics School of Social and Political Science, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea Awarded: July 2001 BA in Sociology University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia Awarded: May 1993. CAREER HISTORY May 2014-present: Associate Professor, Dept. of International Relations and European Studies/Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest August 2010-April 2014: Assistant Professor, Dept. of International Relations and European Studies/Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest
2009-2010: Junior Research Fellow, Department of International Relations and European Studies (joint appointment with Political Science and Public Policy), Central European University, Budapest 2007-2009: Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK 2006-2008: (sessional) Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Ireland 2006-2007: ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK 2004-2007: Graduate Fellow, funded by the Korea Foundation and Sheffield University Bursary, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield RESEARCH INTERESTS Internet & politics, democratization, populism, comparative government, party politics Politics of East Asia: The two Koreas, China, Taiwan, Japan, Myanmar/Burma Comparative Regionalism, Europe-Asia relations, Soft Power Global cities PUBLICATIONS Monograph 2011 The Politics of Coalition in Korea: Between Institutions and Culture. Routledge. Articles (refereed) 2014 The 2012 Parliamentary and Presidential Elections in South Korea. Electoral Studies, 34(2), 326-330 (SSCI-listed). 2012 Confucianism and coalition politics. Journal of Northeast Asian History, 9(2): 5-32. 2009 Digital Populism in South Korea? Internet Culture and the trouble with direct participation. KEI Academic Paper Series, 3(8), 143-156. 2008 Intra-party politics and minority coalition government in South Korea. Japanese Journal of Political Science, 9(3): 367-398. (SSCI-listed) 2008 (co-authored with F. Yap) Pathologies or Progress? Evaluating the effects of Divided Government and Party Volatility. Japanese Journal of Political Science, 9(3): 261-268. (SSCI-listed) 2008 Explaining minority coalition government and governability in South Korea: A review essay. Korea Observer, 39(1): 59-84. (SSCI-listed)
Book chapters 2010 Coalition Formation, in G. Kurian (ed) International Encyclopedia of Political Science, American Political Science Association (CQ Press/Sage). 2009 Fission, fusion, reform and failure: Roh Moo-hyun s administration. Korea Yearbook 2008, edited by Rüdiger Frank, James E. Hoare, Patrick Köllner and Susan Pares, Leiden: Brill, 73-94. 2005 Coalition theories and the dynamics of coalition party politics in Japan and Korea. Papers of British Association for Korean Studies, 10: 165-184. Other 2011 South Korea: By-elections prompt cabinet reshuffle and party reforms, Oxford Analytica, May 2010 South Korea: Political Dynamic sees Party Realignment, Oxford Analytica, 30 April. Book reviews 2013 Review of Stein Ringen et al The Korean State and Social Policy: How South Korea lifted itself from Poverty and Dictatorship to Affluence and Democracy (OUP, 2007), in Asian Survey Review of R. Boyd, G. Benno, T. Ngo (ed) Political Conflict and Development in East Asia and Latin America. (Routledge, 2006) in International Affairs, 83(6). 2004 Review of S. Kim (ed) Korea s Democratization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) in Political Studies Review, 2(3), p. 402. 2004 Review of Ahn, B.M. Elites and Political Power in South Korea. International Affairs, 80(3), pp. 570-573. 2003 Review of D.A. Bell and Hahm, C. Confucianism for the Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2003), in Political Studies Review, 3(1), 2005, p.117. RESEARCH FUNDING AND AWARDS 2012-2017: Korea Foundation Global E-School Program Grant: Korea Global E-school in Eurasia 2012-13: CEU SUN (Summer School University), Comparative Regionalisms: Changing Forms of Governance in Asia, Africa and the Americas and their Effects on the World Order 2012-13: Korea Foundation Korean Studies Database Library Grant 2012, 2011, 2010: International Studies Association, Travel Grant 2011: Academy of Korean Studies (with the University of Vienna), Digital Platform on Korean Studies 2009-2011 British Academy Small Grants 2008-2009 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship 2008-2010 Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, travel grant 2007-2008 ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship 2007 Korea Foundation Conference Grant 2007 Japan Foundation Local Project Support program 2007 Strategic Research Support Fund, School of Social and Political Studies,
University of Edinburgh 2007 British Academy Overseas Conference Grant grant in support of the organization of an international workshop 2007 PSA UK-Korea Conference Exchange Grant 2004-2007 Korea Foundation (South Korean government), Fellowship for Graduate Studies 2003-2006 Sheffield University Bursary 2006 Political Studies Association Conference Graduate Access Fund 2004 British Association for Korean Studies conference grant 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Learned Societies Fund, University of Sheffield TEACHING http://www.ceu.hu/video/2013-06-03/global-e-school-project-ceu-reaches-out-touniversities-in-asia-and-europe 2013-2014 East Asia in International Relations, elective Comparative Political Institutions, core 2012-13 East Asia in International Relations, elective Comparative Political Institutions, core 2011-2012 Comparative Political Institutions, core Comparative Regionalism, elective Global Cities, elective East Asia in International Relations, elective 2010-2011 East Asia in International Relations, elective Comparative Regional Integration, elective Ethics and Public Policy, core Public Administration, PhD core course 2009-2010 Public Administration, PhD core course Comparative Political Institutions, MA core course East Asia in International Relations, MA elective course 2007-2008 Europe-Asia Relations, University College Dublin, Ireland. 2006-2007 Politics of East Asia (undergraduate), University College Dublin. Europe-Asia Relations (MA), University College Dublin.
2003-2004 Korean language (undergraduate), Sheffield University PhD Program 13/14: International Relations Track: Exam committee member; Public Policy Track: Exam committee member 12/13: Comparative Politics Track: Exam committee member 10/11: Public Policy Track Exam committee member 09/10: Comparative Politics Track: Exam committee member SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION, ADMINISTRATION AND OUTREACH Service to the profession Reviewer for New Media and Society, Political Studies, Politics and Democratization. Editorial Advisory Board Member for Korea Observer (SSCI-listed), Institute of Korean Studies, Seoul. Administration: 2013-present: CEU University Senate 2013-present: University Library Committee (Senate) 2013-present: Campus Sustainability Advisory Committee (Senate) 2013 Comparative Politics PhD Track Exam Committee Member 2011 Public Policy PhD Track Exam Committee Member 2010 Public Policy PhD Track Exam Committee Member 2010 Comparative Politics PhD Track Exam Committee Member OUTREACH - Resource Faculty for the Myanmar Initiative at CEU, funded by the Open Society Foundations (Mandalay, Myanmar, October-November 2013) - Resource Faculty for the AFTAP (Afghanistan and Tajikistan Access Program), funded by OSF/HESP, October 2011 and November 2012 - Contributed to the IRES Program on Establishing European Studies Centers in Russia, 9-16 November 2012 (sessions on comparative methodology and EU-Asia relations) - Contributed to CEU outreach with Kazakhstan-based faculty, 2011, 2012 - Resource Faculty for the Open Society Foundations-funded project on Rethinking the International Security Agenda (RESET project), 2010-2012 - Contributed to the IRES Teaching Program for Visiting Students, 1-15 June 2011 (sessions on comparative methodology and regionalism)
MEDIA 2011 BBC Radio World Service, interviewed on 9 and 10 May 2007, 2008 The Guardian 2008 Korea Times 2007 Kyosu Sinmun (Professor s Newspaper), Seoul 2008: Presentation at the Korea Economic Institute, Washington DC (public lecture to officials from various US government agencies) PROFESSIONAL BODY MEMBERSHIP American Political Science Association (Organized section membership: Comparative Democratization; Political Organizations and Parties) International Studies Association Association for Asian Studies Association for Korean Studies in Europe UK Political Science Association COURSES AND TRAINING Software SPSS R (software for statistical computing) Webex (web-conferencing tool) 2011 Quantitative Text Analysis, CEU, Budapest (14-21 April) 2011-12 Time Series Analysis (EDUFAM, Statistic Education online course) 2010-11 SPSS Advanced Course II (EDUFAM, Statistic Education online course) 2009-2010 SPSS advanced course I (EDUFAM, Statistic Education online course) 2008 Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection (July), University of Essex. Courses attended: - Introduction to Regression; - Game Theory; - Survey Analysis. Large events organized 2012, 2013, 2014: CEU SUN Summer Course on Comparative Regionalisms: Changing Forms of Regional Governance in Asia, Africa, and the Americas and the Effects on Global Order 2012, 2013, 2014 Korean Studies Conference, Budapest 2007 Organiser of the joint conference of Dynamics of Transformation in East Asia, University of Edinburgh. The event consisted of the following:
- Workshop on Governability across regime types ; - Early Career Researchers Convention on East Asian Studies; - Korean Studies Graduate Conference; INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS April 2014 Political Institutions in Korea, University of Frankfurt, Germany 30 May 2013 Electoral engineering in Korean politics, University of Vienna, Austria 15 March 2013 The 2012 parliamentary and general elections in South Korea, University of Paris Diderot, France 13-15 December 2012 Parties in crisis, Korean Studies Symposium, University of Vienna, Austria March-May 2012: Series of lectures on Korean politics, University of Vienna 24-26 November 2011 EU-North Korea Relations, Korean Studies Symposium, University of Vienna, Austria 10 September 2011 EU-North Korea Relations, EU-Asia Relations Conference, Maastricht University, Netherlands 16-19 March 2011 Fluidity of and within political parties in South Korea International Studies Association Annual Convention 2011 Montréal, Canada 26-27 November 2010 Surplus Majority, Factionalism, and Ungovernability in South Korea Korean Studies Symposium Vienna University, Austria. 9-12 August 2010: Regionalism in East Asia, RESET Project on International Security, Izmir, Turkey 24-26 June 2010 Majority rule without governability. Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. 15-17 April 2010 Identities and Political Cleavages on the Korean Peninsula. Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual Convention, Columbia University, New York. 22-27 March 2010: Conceptualising Digital Populism. ECPR Joint Sessions, Workshop on Disassembling Populism (and Putting it Back Together Again). Collaborative Empirical Research on Interactions among Populism s Attributes, Muenster, Germany. 17-20 February 2010 Ethnic or Regional? Rethinking cultural and political loyalties on the Korean Peninsula. International Studies Association Annual Convention, New Orleans. 11-13 December 2009 Politics and Public Emotions Korean Studies Symposium Vienna University, Austria. 8 July 2009 Chinese Foreign Policy, Dept. of Political Science, University of Torino (Italy) 18-21 June 2009 Direct Participation and Digital Populism in South Korea. The Association for Korea Studies in Europe 24 th Biennial Conference 14-19 April 2009 Coalition politics, ungovernability, and internal party democracy in South Korea. ECPR Joint Sessions, Workshop on Promoting Internal Party Democracy: A Selling Point, A Serious Danger, Or A Redundant Exercise?, Lisbon, Portugal. 22-23 November 2008 What are the conditions leading to the emergence of populist behavior? A Case study of Korea Korean Studies Symposium Vienna University, Austria. 5 December 2008 Ethnic or Regional? Understanding Political Cleavages in South Korea. Workshop on Comparative Perspectives on Conflict Resolution held at University College Dublin, Ireland. 18 November 2008 Digital Populism in South Korea: Internet Culture and the Trouble
with Direct Participation. Korea Economic Institute for America, Washington DC. 12 November 2008 Coalition Politics in South Korea: The Legacy of the Roh Moo-hyun Administration. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 8-10 September 2008 Civil Society in South Korea, British Association for Korean Studies Conference, Cambridge University. 20-23 August 2008 Coalition Politics in South Korea: The Legacy of the Roh Moo-hyun Administration, Association for Korean Studies in Europe, Leiden University. 4-7 April 2008 Civil Society in South Korea: The Anti-candidate Movement. Association for Asian Studies annual conference, Atlanta. 4 March 2008 Intra-party politics and minority coalition government in South Korea. Central European University, Budapest. 23-24 November 2007 Confucianism, party politics and democracy in East Asia, Confucius Symposium, Vienna University, Austria. 24-26 October 2007 Governability and deadlocks in South Korea, Joint conference of Dynamics of transformation in East Asia, University of Edinburgh, UK. 23-25 August 2007 Explaining minority coalition government in South Korea: where and how do we start? World Congress of Korean Studies, Korean Political Studies Association, Busan South Korea. 25 May 2007: Ethnic or Regional? Redefining political cleavages in the Korean Peninsula. Workshop on Comparative Ethnicity, University College Dublin. 5 12 May 2007 Older and newer cleavages in South Korea: Regionalism, Generational Gap and Ungovernability. ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) Helsinki 2007 Joint Sessions. University of Helsinki, Finland. 4 May 2007 Explaining Party Politics and Political Behaviour in East Asia: Can Rationality and Political Culture be Accommodated?, University College Dublin. 16-20 April 2007 Government, opposition, and governability: Conflicts of interest with the coalition partner and the opposition during the Kim Dae-jung administration. Association for Korean Studies in Europe, 23 rd Biannual Conference held in France at Dourdan. 11-13 April 2007 Rational choice and explaining party politics and political behaviour in South Korea: Can rational choice and culture be accommodated?. PSA / UK Political Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Bath, U.K. 12-17 September 2006 Intra-party politics and ideological cleavages among legislators over the National Security Law. Korean Studies Graduate Students' Convention, Charles University, Prague. 6-7 September 2006 Generational Change and Ideological Preferences in South Korea. British Association for Korean Studies Conference, Sheffield University 4-6 April 2006 The impact of the ideological divide on government efficacy in South Korea s political system, PSA annual conference, University of Reading. 21-26 August 2005 Factionalism, trust and governability in South Korea s political system, Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (University of Tokyo, Japan) 11-12 May 2005 Factionalism, party democracy, and institutionalization in South Korea (1998-2002), Korean Studies Graduate Conference, SOAS, University of London 6-8 September 2004 Coalition theories and the dynamics of coalition party politics in Japan and Korea, UK Joint East Asian Study Conference, University of Leeds 17 April 2004 Explaining government instability in South Korea, Harvard University,
Korea Institute, Graduate Conference. 20 March 2004 The Politics of Coalition-building in South Korea, Postgraduate East Asian Conference, University of Sheffield. LANGUAGES Korean: Native English: Fluent Japanese: Elementary Chinese: Can read and write (more than 2,000 characters) Italian: Elementary