Dr Jaeyoung Kim

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Postdoctoral Affiliate

Dr Jaeyoung Kim is a social, cultural, and visual anthropologist who explores daily dynamics and urban complexities in Korea and East Asia. She seeks to develop sensory and visual methods – including photography, mapping, filming, and drawing – to create vivid ethnographic accounts and to offer interdisciplinary, experimental forms of anthropological representation. Her doctoral research, An Ethnography of a Sewing Neighbourhood Under Threat in Contemporary Seoul, examined how the declining sewing community in the heart of Seoul has adapted and responded to socioeconomic challenges, and why urban regeneration has brought about more complex political entanglements among locals and stakeholders.

Research interests

  • Everyday life and behind-the-scenes in urban spaces
  • Urban regeneration and politics
  • Homes and infrastructure
  • Atmospheres and spatiotemporality
  • Visual and sensory anthropology
  • Phenomenology and embodiment
  • Agency, subjectivity, and social navigation
  • Anthropology of art
  • Art and medicine
  • Research ethics
  • Qualitative studies
  • Digital ethnography
  • Cross-disciplinary research methods

Academic Experience

Lecturer, Social Research Methods, Department of Sociology, Korea University (2025-)
Lecturer, Popular Culture and High Culture, Department of Humanitas Studies, Kyung Hee Cyber University (2025-)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Humanities and Social Medicine, Ajou University (2023-2024)

Publications

Kim, J. (2025) Drawing the Visible and the Invisible: A Methodological Practice in Anthropology, Cross-Cultural Studies, 31(1): 577-617.

Kim, J. (2024) Exploring Sensory Anthropology: Development, Limitations, and Its Introduction to Korea, Korean Cultural Anthropology, 57(3): 213-256.

Kim, J. (2024) The fading light of urban regeneration in a sewing neighbourhood in Seoul, Cities, 150: 105013.

Education

DPhil in Anthropology, University of Oxford (Green Templeton College)
MPhil in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology (Distinction), University of Oxford (St.Antony’s College)
MA in Arts Management, Chung-Ang University
BA in Korean Painting and Clothing & Textiles (Top-ranked Admission, Dual Degree), Chung-Ang University

Contact

jykim.anthro@gmail.com