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Publications

  • (With Young Heum Park). Intra-newsroom communication: Issues and solutions. 뉴스룸 내부 커뮤니케이션 개선 방안 연구. 2024. 한국언론진흥재단. (Link).
  • “The ‘Kim Jong-un effect’ and the mainstreaming of North Korea coverage in UK media.” European Journal of Communication. 2023. (Link).
  • “Roundtable: Taking a Sociological Approach to Journalism History.” Historiography in Mass Communication. 2022, 4. (Link).
  • “Media representations of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants: a meta-analysis of research.” Annals of the ICA. 2022. (Link).
  • “Why the media gets it wrong when it comes to North Korea: Cases of ‘dead’ North Koreans in the Kim Jong-un era.” Journalism. 2022 (Link).
  • “Ethics of Digital Verification in International Reporting.” In Handbook of Global Media Ethics. Springer (May 2021).
  • “Korea’s Watergate Moment: How a Media Coalition Brought Down the Park Geun-Hye Government.” Journalism Practice. 2020. (Link)
  • (With Seungahn Nah). “Mapping Communication Research About North Korea: A Systematic Review.” 2020. International Journal of Communication. 14:1308-1330. Link.
  • (With Seungahn Nah). “Talking With the Hermit Regime: North Korea, media and communication.” 2020. International Journal of Communication.2020.  14:1303-1307.
  • ‘We See More Because We Are Not There’: Sourcing Norms and Routines in Covering North Korea.” 2020. New Media & Society. 22:283-299. Link.
  • “Issues in Journalism Education in the US.” Kwanhun Journal. 152: 86-93.
  • “One Foot in Prison and One Foot Out: Government-Appointed Fixer/Minders in North Korea.” 2019. Journalism Studies. Link.
  • “Blue Collar Witnesses to Power: The Culture of Photographers at the Associated Press. Journalism Studies. 2019. Link.
  • “Covering the Hermit Regime: A Comparison of North Korea Coverage at the Associated Press and NK News.” 2018. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism. Link. 
  • “Journalism and Human Rights: How Demographics Drive Media Coverage.” 2017. Book review for Journal of Communication 66, no. 6.
  • “Marginal Majority at the Postcolonial News Agency.” 2016. Journalism Studies 17, no. 1. Link.
  • “Through the Looking Glass.” 2013. Columbia Journalism Review. Link.
  • “Cumulative or Discrete Numbers. Should Bloomberg Measure the Bailout?” 2013. Case Consortium@Columbia. Link.

Working Papers:

  • Enduring values of independent Russophone media
  • Rhetorical analysis of male feminists in South Korea
  • Rituals of Covid coverage in Anglo-American newspapers
  • Evolution of North Korean Defector Journalism

In Korean:

  • “작위적 익명보도 시작으로 이선균을 ‘구경거리’로 만든 언론, 어떻게 해야할까.” 미디어오늘 (2024.1.3). Link.
  • “자극적 보도에 의한 사회적 타살 …. 언론은 윤리, 도덕적 의무 실천해.” 가톨릭신문 (2024.1.7). Link.
  • “팩트체크는 계속되어야 한다” 학계 언론계 한 목소리. 뉴스톱 (2013.10.16). Link.
  • “현장엔 답이 없고, 데이터는 말이 없다.” 단비뉴스 2019년 11월 23일. Link.
  • “미국, 기자 교육 이렇게 한다.” 관훈저널 2019년 가을호.
  • “아무도 헤아리지 못한 분노와 무기력의 깊이.” 한겨레21 2016년 1137호. Link.
  • “나쁘거나 착한, 스토리에 강한 미디어의 대약진.” 허핑턴포스트 코리아 5월 19일. Link.
  • “언론의 불평부당 객관주의가 키운 ‘홍역 확산.'” 허핑턴포스트 코리아 3월 13일. Link.
  • “유명 잡지 롤링스톤 기사, ‘2014년 최악의 오보’ 치욕.” 신문과 방송 2015년 2월호.
  • “2015년 미국 미디어산업 전망.” 신문과 방송 2015년 1월호.
  • “SNS 겨냥 기업 홍보용 매체 창간 봇물.” 신문과 방송 2014년 12월호.

Media appearances

  • Analysis: The North Korean officials who returned from the dead. BBC Monitoring. June 9, 2019. Link.
  • My American Meltingpot Podcast. June 1, 2019. Link.
  • For the Koreans, the Historic Summit is a Family Affair. Philadelphia Inquirer. May 3, 2018. Link.
  • Why South Korean Media So Often Misses the Mark on North Korea. NK News. Sept. 14, 2017. Link.
  • Profiles of Success: Professor Soomin Seo. Freely Magazine.
  • Diplomats Urge Caution on N Korea Nuke Tests. Al Jazeera. Feb. 3, 2013. Link. 
  • What Do Journalists Think About Reporting on North Korea? NK News. October 9, 2014. Link.