Dr. Sookeung Jung is a postdoctoral researcher at the Korea-Europe Center in the Institute of Korean Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. Her primary research interest lies in the dynamic interplay of industry, genres, production, and reception in the realm of East Asian pop culture. From the mid-1990s to the early 2010s, she worked as a television writer and independent producer, specializing in the domains of current affairs and Korean modern history. Based on her professional experience and expertise, she wrote a dissertation focused on structural changes in the Korean broadcasting industry since the late 1990s, earning her Ph.D. from Georgia State University in 2019. Before coming to Berlin, Dr. Jung worked as an assistant professor in the Department of International Studies at Transnational Law and Business University and served as the Policy Director of the Citizen's Coalition for Democratic Media in South Korea, where she strived to advance democracy in the Korean media industry and expand media rights for Korean citizens.

Books and Translated volumes 

2022. Co-author. Saenghwal sog midieo liteoleosi annaeseo: Dangsin-i bon nyuseuneun teullyeossda (A guide to everyday media literacy: The news you've seen is wrong). Seoul: Knowledge Platform. ISBN: 9791188910748

2022. Co-translator. Keipabeun heugin eumagida (K-pop is African-American popular music). Seoul: Nulmin Publishing. (in Korean) ISBN: 9791187750628 / (Original work) C. Anderson (2020) Soul in Seoul. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.

2021. Co-author. Eonronnojo 30nyeonsa: Eonronui jayuneun modeun jayureul jayuropge handa. (30-year history of the National Union of Mediaworkers: Freedom of speech is the mother of all liberties).  Volume 3(2008-2017). Seoul: National Union of Mediaworkers. ISBN: 9791196810580

Peer-reviewed journal articles

2018. (with Hongmei Li) “Networked audiences and cultural globalization,” Sociology Compass, 12(4): e12570.

2017. “Web TV in network TV: Digitextuality and hybridization of media labor in My Little Television,” Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia 16(2): 59-81. 

2014. (with Hongmei Li) “Global production, circulation, and consumption of Gangnam Style,” International Journal of Communication, 8, 20.

2013. “A content analysis of international news on North Korean Central TV: New leadership’s perception of the world,”  Journal of Peace and Unification,3(2): 97-132. 

Working Papers 

2021. “Reconstructing the devil: Representations of Kim Jong-un in the U.S. newspapers and correlations with U.S. government's North Korea policy.” A collection of papers on the research project for the restoration of homogeneity between North and South Korea (pp361-398). Lotte Scholarship Foundation-Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation. 

2021. (with Changhyun Ahn and Jiyoung Park) “Research on evaluation and improvement plan for citizen-led education for peaceful reunification.” Seoul Metropolitan Council. https://opengov.seoul.go.kr/research/28180418