Youngmi Kim Associate Professor Department of International Relations/School of Public Policy Central European University Budapest, H-1051 [email protected]

Education

PhD, University of Sheffield, UK, 2007 (East Asian Studies) MSc by Research, University of Edinburgh, UK, 2003 (Politics) MA, University, Seoul, , 2001 (Political Science) BA, University of Wollongong, Australia, 1993 (Sociology)

Academic Employment

May 2014-present Associate Professor, Central European University 2010-2014 Assistant Professor, Central European University 2009-2010 Junior Research Fellow, Central European University Jan 08-Dec 09 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, University of Edinburgh 2006-2009 (sessional) Lecturer, University College Dublin, Ireland Jan-Dec 2007 ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh

Grants and fellowships

2016 Ministry of Foreign Affairs Fellow, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan 2012-2016 Korea Foundation Global E-School Program Grant: Korea Global E- school in Eurasia 2012-14 CEU SUN (Summer School University), Comparative Regionalisms: Changing Forms of Governance in Asia, Africa and the Americas and their Effects on the World Order (with A. Acharya, American University) 2012-present Korea Foundation Korean Studies Database Library Grant 2011-present 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 2007-2008 ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship 2007 Japan Foundation Local Project Support program 2007 Strategic Research Support Fund, School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh 2004-2007 Korea Foundation, Fellowship for Graduate Studies 2003-2006 Learned Societies Fund, University of Sheffield 2004-2007 Graduate Fellowship, Sheffield University Bursary, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield

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Publications

Books

Single-authored 2011 The Politics of Coalition in Korea: Between Institutions and Culture. Routledge (2014 paperback)

Edited book

2017 (forthcoming) Korea’s New Transition: Inequality, polarization and the quest for economic democratization, Palgrave. Contributing editor (three chapters out of twelve), manuscript complete.

Articles

2016 The 2015 Parliamentary and 2016 Presidential . Electoral Studies 44, 419-422. SSCI-listed 2015 Mapping South Korea’s Soft Power: Sources, Actors, Tools, and Impact. Romanian Journal of Sociological Studies, 1, 1-10 (with V. Marinescu). 2014 The 2012 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in South Korea. Electoral Studies, 34, 326-330. SSCI-listed 2014 : Crisis as an Opportunity and the Unintended Consequences of Engagement. Wiener Beiträge zur Koreaforschung, VI, 7-15. 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 Fiona O. 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

Under review Mandalay. Teaching Asia in Europe (online)

Book chapters

2017 (forthc.) ‘Hell Chosun: Polarization and Contention in a neo-liberal age’. In Korea’s New Transition: Inequality, polarization and the quest for economic democracy, Palgrave. 2017 (forthc.) ‘The return of class? Old and new cleavages in Korean Society’ (with S. Park). Korea’s New Transition: Inequality, polarization and the quest for economic democracy, Palgrave. 2017 (forthc.) ‘Korea’s New Transition: Lessons for Asia’s advanced industrial societies and new democracies’. Korea’s New Transition: Inequality, polarization and the quest for economic democracy, Palgrave. 3

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.

Invited Conferences, seminars, and workshops

2016 The Parliamentary Elections in Korea. Center for Korean Studies, University of Washington, WA, 28 March. 2016 Issues in EU integration and governance, Petrozavodsk State University, Russia, 23-26 March. 2015 The upcoming election in South Korea, Viennese Symposium in Korean Studies, 5 December. 2014, Soft power and the Korean wave, University of Vienna, Austria, 2-4 December. 2014, Elections and emerging cleavages in South Korea, University of Bucharest, Romania, 3 June. 2014 Political Institutions in Korea, University of Frankfurt, Germany 15 March 30 May 2013 ‘Electoral engineering in Korean politics’, University of Vienna, Austria 2013 The 2012 parliamentary and general elections in South Korea, University of Paris Diderot, France, 15 March. 2012 ‘Parties in crisis’, Korean Studies Symposium, University of Vienna, 13-15 December. 2011 ‘EU-North Korea Relations’, Korean Studies Symposium, University of Vienna, Austria, 24-26 November. 2011 ‘EU-North Korea Relations’, EU-Asia Relations Conference, Maastricht University, Netherlands, 10 September. March 2011 ‘Fluidity of and within political parties in South Korea’ International Studies Association Annual Convention 2011 Montreal,́ Canada, 16-19. November 2010 ‘Surplus Majority, Factionalism, and Ungovernability in South Korea’ Korean Studies Symposium Vienna University, Austria, 26-27. June 2010 Majority rule without governability. Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, 24-26. April 2010 Identities and Political Cleavages on the Korean Peninsula. Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual Convention, Columbia University, New York, 15-17. 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, 22-27 March. 2010 Ethnic or Regional? Rethinking cultural and political loyalties on the Korean Peninsula. International Studies Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, 17-20 February 2009 ‘Politics and Public Emotions’ Korean Studies Symposium Vienna University, Austria, 11-13 December. 2009 Chinese Foreign Policy, Dept. of Political Science, University of Torino (Italy) 18-21 June. 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, 14-19 April. 2008 Digital populism and the future of democratic politics in Korea, Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 19 November. 2008 Digital Populism and Online Politics in Korea, Korea Economic Institute, Washington 4

DC, 17 November. 2008 Ethnic or Regional? Understanding Political Cleavages in South Korea. Workshop on Comparative Perspectives on Conflict Resolution held at University College Dublin, Ireland, 5 December. 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. 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. 5

Conference organization

2016 Global Cities, 16-18 June, Budapest 2012-2016 Annual Conference in Korean Studies, CEU (50-100 participants) 2015 Taiwan in transition (CEU, with Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs) 2012-2014 Comparative Regionalism Summer School (CEU) 2007 Dynamics of Transformation in East Asia (U of Edinburgh) 2007 Divided Government in Comparative Perspective (across regime types) (U of Edinburgh)

Teaching

CEU (postgraduate)

Public policy Comparative Political Institutions (MA) Global Cities and Urban Policies (MA) Ethics and Public Policy (MA) Public Administration (PhD) Research in EU governance (PhD)

International Relations East Asia in International Relations (MA) Comparative Regionalism (MA)

University College Dublin, Ireland Europe-Asia Relations (MA), Politics of East Asia (BA)

University of Sheffield Korean language (BA)

Supervision

PhD Completed Alexander Akbik (defended June 2016) ‘War as a dysfunctional system: A Luhmanian approach’

In progress Margaryta Rymarenko ‘Regional organizations and great power management: The EU and ASEAN’

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Service to the profession

Journal editorial board Korea Observer

Reviewer Comparative Politics, Political Studies, Politics, Democratization, Contemporary Politics, Pacific Review, Journal of International Relations and Development, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Asian Studies Review, Korea Observer.

Professional association membership International Studies Association Association for Asian Studies American Political Science Association Korean Political Science Association British Association for Korean Studies Association for Korean Studies in Europe

Service to the university

Department 2012-present Director, Korea Foundation Global E-School in Eurasia Project 2015-2016: Doctoral committee (international relations specialization, Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy, and International Relations) 2015-2016: Department seminar convener 2011-2016: MA Admissions, School of Public Policy, Department of International Relations 2010-2012: Comprehensive exam member, Public Policy specialization, doctoral program

University 2013-16 Elected member of Academic Senate 2013-16 Member of Senate-level library committee 2013-16 Member of Senate-level campus sustainability committee 2015-2016 Chair of PhD defense 2014-2015 IT taskforce 2011-2012 China Program

Outreach 2013-2016 Research and teaching capacity-building at the University of Yangon and Mandalay University (Myanmar), funded by the Open Society Foundations 2011-2012 Access program for young scholars from Afghanistan and Tajikistan, funded by the Open Society Foundations 2010-2012: Teaching innovation in the undergraduate curriculum in international relations (universities in Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan), funded by the Open Society Foundations

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Media Interviews with the BBC Radio World Service, the Guardian, YTN/Yonhap (Korean Newspaper), Kyosu Ilbo (Korean newspaper), Korea Times, Nepszabadsag (Hungary).

Personal skills and competences

Software SPSS, R, MaxQDA

2011 Quantitative Text Analysis, CEU, Budapest 2011 maxQDA, CEU, Budapest 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) 2007-2009 NVivo, University of Edinburgh 2008 Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection (July), University of Essex. Courses attended: - Introduction to Regression; - Game Theory; - Survey Analysis.

Online teaching and video-conferencing tools: Webex and BlueJeans, Moodle platforms

Languages Korean: native English: fluent Chinese (Mandarin): can read and write (traditional); elementary conversations Japanese: elementary (can read) Italian: elementary