Research Associate

Yoonjung Kim is a Ph.D. student in Korean studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany. With a background in Cultural Anthropology, she received her bachelor's degree from Duksung Women’s University and her master’s degree from Seoul National University in Anthropology. Her research interests lie at the intersection of social movements, emotion studies, gender studies, and digital ethnography. Her master's thesis, "Practices and Affects of Young Viewers of Animal Content and Changing Human-Animal Relationships in South Korea", explored emergent online human-animal relationships in South Korea. In her Ph.D. research, she expands on this topic, focusing more on the solidarity and social movements being created in South Korea that are affected by subtle emotions shared among South Korean women.