Yong-Chan Kim (PhD, University of Southern California) is Vice President for International Affairs and Professor in the Department of Communication at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He is also a professor at Pohang University of Science and Technology (Postech) at courtesy. He directs two research units at Yonsei: The Urban Communication Center and the Urban Communication Lab. He is also a board member of the Urban Communication Foundation. Prior to joining the faculty at Yonsei, he was on the faculty at the University of Iowa and the University of Alabama. He received his BA and MA from the Department of Communication at Yonsei University and his PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, USA.
For the past 20 years, his research program has been built around three key areas: urban communication, new media technology, and risk society. His recent books include “Post-Mass Media” (2023, Culture Look), “Risk, Society, and Media” (2023, Culture Look), “The Candlelight Movement, Democracy, and Communication in Korea” (2021, Routledge), “The Communication Ecology of 21st Century Urban Communities” (2018, Peter Lang), “Media and Community” (2018, Culture Look), and “Writing a Paper as Storytelling” (2020, Culture Look). He has published more than 80 articles in prestigious journals such as Communication Research, New Media & Society, Human Communication Research, Communication Monographs, Political Communication, Communication Theory, Journal of Health Communication, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, and others.