Myungsim Yang

Myungsim Yang

HK Research Professor

Japan Literature / Literature of Korean Resident in japan

Personal Profile

  • Editorial Board Member, The Japanese Language and Literature Society of Korea. (2024.03.~)
  • Editorial Assistant, Mobility Humanities. (2022.01. ~ )
  • Secretary of Organization, The Japanese Language Literature Association of Korea. (2021.03. ~2023.02 )
  • Research Professor, Cultural Sciences Research Center, Jeonju Univ. (2017.07. ~ 2018.06.)
  • Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Cultural Sciences Research Center, Jeonju Univ. (2014.07. ~ 2015.06.)
  • Associate Researcher, The Center for Asia & Diaspora, Konkuk Univ. (2012.09. ~ 2014.06.)
  • HK Research Professor, The Center for Asia & Diaspora, Konkuk Univ. (2011.09. ~ 2012.08.)
  • Foreign Researcher, Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe Univ. (2009.11. ~ 2010.09)

Research Outputs

  • “Exploring Mobile Lifestyles and Virtual Communities: The Narrative Structure and Emotional Impact of “Train Man”,” Journal of Japanese Culture 101, 2024.
  • “Zainichi, Mobility, and Jeju Island: On the Representation of Island in the Novels of Kim Sokpom and Lee Yangji,” Kritika Kultura Vol. 43, 2024.
  • “Zainichi Narratives and Community Ethics Represented in Multicultural Literature PACHINKO,” Journal of Japanese Culture, 96, 2023.
  • “The Ethical Structure of the Taxi-Based Narrative: Focusing on Taxi Crazy Rhapsody,” Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, Vol.6, No.4, 2022.
  • “Moving Zainich Culture and Female Zainichi’s Right: Focusing on Row a boat on land of a Literary Magazine,” Journal of Dong-ak Language and Literature 64, 2022.
  • “Transformation of the Concept of Mobility in Zainichi Koreans’ Texts: focused on Kazuki Kaneshiro’s The Zombies Series,” The Japanese Language and Literature Association of Daehan 89, 2021.
  • “Diasporic Narrative and Representation of “Enforced Mobility” -Focused on “Ryuiki (流域)” by Hoe-sung Lee-​,” Japanese Language and Culture 50, 2020​.
  • “Zainichi’s experience of ‘Motherland’ and Production of Seoul​,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 83, 2019​.
  • “Just after the Liberation from Japanese Imperialism, Japanese Mobility System and the Formation of “Korean Residents in Japan” -Focusing on Lee Hoe-seong’s Hyakunen-no Tabibitodachi-,” Japanese Language and Literature​ 84, 2019​.
  • “Japanese-named Korean Writer’s Diasporic Narrative and Its Representation of Mobility: Focusing on Huyunokatamini(冬のかたみに) by Tachihara Seishu,” Korean Japanese of Japanese Language and Literature 79, 2018.​
  • “Diaspora and Restoration of Self-ethics: Focused on Lee Hoe-sung, Zainichi Writer,” International Journal of Diaspora &Cultural Criticism 8(2), 2018.
  • “A Study on the Narratives of Korean-Japanese Writers as a Double Minority,” Journal of Japanese Culture 77, 2018.
  • “A Study on the Magazine, Hormon Culture(1990~2000): Reinterpretation of “Zainichi” Culture,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature​ 75, 2017.
  • “Korean Residents in Japan and the Place of Ikaino -Focusing on the Magazines Published by Korean Residents in Japan,” Journal of Dong-ak Language and Literature​ 67, 2016.
  • “The Reinterpretation of the Genealogy of the Korean Residents Literature in Japan: Focused on the Minto,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature 68, 2016.
  • “An Analysis of Multicultural Literature through Homi K. Bhabha’s Hybridity and Cultural Translation Theories,” MONTHLY REVIEW OF PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE​ 42(5), 2015.
  • “A study on Korean Japanese Literary Magazine “Minto” -Bibliographic Review of Lee Hoesung,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature​ 62, 2014.
  • “Lee hoi-sung’s creative imagination and turning point of construction: focused on ryuuiki,” Journal of Japanese Culture 56, 2013.
  • “Postwar Japan reflected upon Hoe-Sung Lee’s Adolescent Novel,” Korean Journal of Japanese Language and Literature​ 52, 2012.
  • Mobility, Ethos, Common Culture, Seoul: LP, 2023.
  • Mobility and Text Studies, Seoul: LP, 2021
  • Mobility Technology and the Aesthetics of Text, Seoul: LP, 2020.
  • Cultural Geography of Self-narratives of Zainichi, Seoul: Youkrack, 2018.
  • Criticism of multiculturalism in Korea, Seoul: LP, 2016.
  • Literature, Ethnicity, Nation, between Zainichi literature and Empire, Seoul: Jigeumyogi, 2012.