Kim Yoojin
POSITION
Researcher
EMAIL
yjellishakim@gmail.com
SPHERE
Film, Media, Arts and Culture

CONTENTS

Research

2025, Curatorial Expansion for the Preservation of History: Contemporary Korean Cinema and the May 18 Gwangju Minjung Uprising (PhD Thesis)

2025, To Where the Flowers Are Blooming: Gwangju’s Literary and Material Memoirs (MENT Magazine Article)

2025, 일상 속 역사적 재구성: 5·18광주민주화운동과 오월 여성들의 이야기 (Historical Reconstruction in the Everyday: The Story of 5·18 Gwangju Uprising and Women of May) (Stretching the Archives Toward a Global Women’s Film Heritage, Archive Books)

 

2025, Insider-Outsider Gaze and the Ethics of Solidarity: Reframing Gwangju through Contemporary Korean Cinema (The 18th Kyujanggak International Symposium)

2025, MEMORIES BENEATH THE OCEAN OF HISTORY: SYMBOLS AND IMAGES OF THE GWANGJU DEMOCRATIZATION MOVEMENT IN THE POST-5.18 ERA (The 9th International Visual Methods Conference on Visual Bridges: Connecting Perspectives)

2024, Tanning with Movie Light: A Ray of Hope following the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement (CBA TRIESTE Symposium on Film Festivals: Borders, Identities, Solidarities)

2023, Korean Cinema as the Hub of Memoirs: How did A Taxi Driver break the isolation of Gwangju from May 1980 to the present day? (The 10th Korean Screen Culture Conference)

2023, Her Name Is: Representation of Women’s Roles in South Korean Democratic Movements (Global Networking Symposium: Women’s Global Film Movements and Networks)