Hyung Gu Lynn

Hyung Gu LYNN is the AECL/KEPCO Chair in Korean Research at the Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, located in Vancouver, Canada. He is also an Associate Editor for the journal Pacific Affairs. Prior to joining the IAR in January 2002, he held positions in the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo, Japan), and the English Literature Department, Hanyang University (Seoul, Korea). He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and his MA and BA from the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the 20th century histories of Korea and Japan, on topics that include: state and society in colonial Korea; migration and colonialism; political economy of post-1965 ROK-Japan relations; globalization; popular culture; clothing and visuality in Korea and Japan; Japanese business history; comparative colonialism; and epistemologies of the humanities and the social sciences.

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