***The following excerpt is from my interview with Professor Kim. Click here for the shortened interview! Unfortunately, the full interview is not available as the Talk Talk Korea site is under construction. When the site is updated, I will share the link to the interview.***
Professor Suk-Young Kim is the head of the Theater and Performance Studies at the School of Theater, Film, and Television at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She has previously taught at Dartmouth College and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Professor Kim earned her BA and MA in Slavic Literature from Korea University, a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literature from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2001and another Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Theatre and Drama with a Certificate in Gender Studies from Northwestern University in 2005. I conducted a phone interview with Professor Kim on 28 September 2020. This interview details her journey in the field of Korean Studies, her research, various facets of the K-Pop and K-Drama industry, and advice to students pursuing Korean studies.
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