Keung Yoon Bae

Keung Yoon “Becky” Bae is Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at the School of Modern Languages. Her research examines the relationship between media production and state governance in Korea, across different industries and eras, including 1940s imperial Japanese regulation of colonial Korean cinema and 1960s authoritarian control over Korean cinema. Her most recent works examine ownership and governance over video games and gaming culture in Korea. She is interested in examining media works as both text and product, especially as product of government policy and corporate strategy. She has published on global video gaming culture and esports, with a focus on South Korea, in anthologies such as Media technologies for work and play in East Asia; she has also published on the South Korean webcomics. She has a forthcoming article on colonial Korean filmmakers in the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema.