Department of Geography

    Yeong-Hyun Kim

    Associate Professor

    105B Clippinger Labs

Department of Geography
    Ohio University
    Athens, OH 45701

    Phone: 740-593-9179
Fax: 740-593-1139
    Email: kimy1@ohio.edu

Ph.D. in Syracuse University
MA and BA in Seoul National University (South Korea)

My research interests lie in urban and economic geography, although they spill over into many other areas, including development studies, migration studies and Asian studies.  I am particularly interested in the interplay of globalization and urbanization in world cities. I have just published a co-authored book, Cities and Economies (Routledge, 2007), on the urban impact of globalization. My recent research has focused on the glaring contrast between economic globalness and cultural localness in Seoul, South Korea. While working on the newly-forming labor migration flows from developing parts of Asia to Seoul, I noticed a strong presence of ethnic Korean migrants from Northeast China in the city’s foreign workforce. This prompted me to investigate how South Koreans have engaged in “othering” their co-ethnic returnees. I plan to broaden this research to investigate the homecoming experiences of the return migrants and the socio-economic impact of their return on the home community in Northeast China. I have already conducted extensive fieldwork in South Korea and I now plan to visit Northeast China to interview Korean Chinese workers.

I teach a range of courses from the introductory level to the graduate seminar.  The courses that I have taught in the past few years include GEOG 131 Globalization and the Developing World, GEOG 326/526 Urban Geography, GEOG 329/529 World Economic Geography, GEOG 338/538 Southeast Asia, and GEOG 680B Theories of Development.

Publications

2008 “Global and local,” in Tim Hall, Phil Hubbard, and John Rennie Short, eds., The SAGE Companion to the City, London: Sage Publications, pp.123-137.

2008 “Keeping the gateway shut: regulating global city-ness in Seoul,” in Marie Price and Lisa Benton-Short, eds., Migrants to the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, pp.322-344.

2007 Cities and Economies, London: Routledge. (with John Rennie Short)

2004   “Seoul:  complementing economic success with Games,” in Josef Gugler, ed., World Cities Beyond the West: Globalization, Development and Inequality, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.59-81.

2004   “The Indian passenger car industry and the South Asian market: global auto firms’ struggles in India,” in Jorge Carrillo, Yannick Lung, and Rob van Tulder, eds., Cars, Carriers of Regionalism?, New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, pp.247-261.

2002   “Globalization and financial crisis in Seoul, South Korea,” in Richard Grant and John Short, eds., Globalization and the Margins, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, pp.170-190.

2001   “Seoul,” in Lothar Beckel, ed., Megacities, Salzburg: Geospace Verlag, pp.168-173.

2001   “Cultural globalization, global English and geography journals,” The Professional Geographer, 53 (1), pp.1-11. (with J. Short, A. Boniche and L. Li)

2000  “What is/isn’t Americanizing in Seoul?: ‘re-made in Seoul’ cultures,” Journal of the Korean Urban Geographical Society (Special Issue of the 29th International Geographical Congress), 2 (1), pp.81-92.

1999   “Unpacking globalization discourses: globalization in the developing world,” Journal of Geographical and Environmental Education, 7 (2), pp.677-697.

1999 Globalization and The City, London: Addison Wesley Longman (with John Rennie Short)

1998  “Urban crises/urban representations: selling the city in difficult times,” in Tim Hall and Phillip Hubbard, eds., The Entrepreneurial City: Geographies of Politics, Regime and Representation, Chichester: John Wiley and Sons. pp.55-75. (with John Rennie Short)

1997  “Interpreting the Olympic landscape in Seoul: the politics of sports, spectacle and landscape,” Journal of the Korean Geographical Society, 32 (3), pp.387-402.

1996  “The dirty little secret of world cities research: data problems in comparative analysis,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 20 (4), pp.697-717. (with J.R. Short, M. Kuus and H. Wells)

1993   A Geographical Bibliography for Korean Studies: 1986-1990, Seoul: Bak San Publishing Company. (with Ki-Suk Lee) (in Korean)

1992   “Housing class and residential areas in Seoul,” Geography, 26 (3), pp.265-285. (in Korean)

Book Reviews

2007 “Geographies of Globalization by Warwick E. Murray, 2006, New York: Routledge,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 97 (2), pp.456-458.

2007 “World City Network: A Global Urban Analysis by Peter J. Taylor, 2004, London: Routledge," Progress in Human Geography, 31 (1), pp.131-133.

2007 “Laquian, Beyond Metropolis: The Planning and Governance of Asia’s Mega-Urban Regions,” The Journal of Asian Studies, 66 (1), pp.208-210.

2002  “Public Places in Asia Pacific Cities: Current Issues and Strategies, edited by Pu Miao, 2001, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers,” The Professional Geographer, 54 (4), pp.580-582.

1999  "Seoul: the Making of a Metropolis by J. Kim and S. Choe, 1997, Chichester: Wiley," Progress in Human Geography, 23 (4), pp.653-654.