Youngmin Choe

Youngmin Choe is an Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. His research bridges Korean cinema, visual culture, tourism studies, and transnational media flows, with a focus on affect and cultural memory. He holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and previously held a Korea Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

• Education: Ph.D., UC Berkeley

Research interests include:

• Korean Film and Visual Culture
• Trans-Asian Cinema
• Cultural and Tourism Studies
• Contemporary Korean Art
• Gender and Media
• Compressed Modernity

Publication trends highlight interdisciplinary analyses of Korean cinema’s emotional landscapes, historical memory, and transnational influences, often linking media to tourism, gender dynamics, and economic structures. His work spans monographs, edited volumes, and journal articles in leading fields like Cinema Journal and positions: asia critique.

Scientific awards:

• Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

Choe has developed courses on transnational Korean cinema, contemporary visual culture, and media historiography, though no formal advisees are listed.