Dr Ki-Sung Kwak

MA (Canberra), PhD (Victoria, Melbourne)
Senior Lecturer
Room 517 Mungo MacCallum Building A17
+61 2 9351 4490

• Media policy and regulation in East Asia.
• Comparative media

• New media policy in East Asia
• The role of online media in democratising Korea

Books

• Mass Media in Australia (in Korean), Communications Books, Seoul, 2001. (ISBN: 89-8499-037-X) (248 pages)
• A Country Too Far: Representation of Australia in Korea Since the 1980s. Centre for the Study of Australia-Asia Relations, Griffith University, Brisbane, 1998. (ISBN: 0 86857 924 6) (58 pages)

Book Chapters

• ‘Democratisation and Changing State-Media Relations in South Korea’, in Michael Bromley & Angela Romano (eds), Journalism and Democracy in Asia, RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2005. pp.123-134.
• ‘Cable Television and Democracy in Taiwan and South Korea’, in Michael Bromley & Angela Romano (eds), Journalism and Democracy in Asia, RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2005. pp.135-147. – co-authored with Rodney Tiffen.
• ‘Civil Society As the Fifth Estate: Civil Society, Media Reform and Democracy in South Korea’, in Philip Kitley (ed), Television, Regulation and Civil Society in Asia, RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2003, pp.226-245

Articles

• ‘Restructuring the Satellite Television Industry in Japan”, Television and New Media, Sage, London. 2007/2008. (in press)
• ‘The Regulation of Pay Television in East Asia: A Comparative Study’, Westminster Papers in Communications and Culture, University of Westminster, London, 2007. Vol 4. No. 3, 88-107.
• ‘Context of the Regulation of Television Broadcasting in East Asia’, Gazette: International Journal for Communication Studies, Sage, London, Vol.61:3/4, 1999, pp.255-273.

• ‘The Role of the State in the Regulation of Television Broadcasting in South Korea’, Media International Australia incorporating Culture & Policy, Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, Brisbane, No.92, 1999, pp.65-79.
• ‘Structural and Cultural Aspects of the Regulation of Television Broadcasting in East Asia: A Comparative Study’, Gazette: International Journal for Communication Studies, Sage, London, 1997, Vol.59:6, pp.429-443.

Please also see Ki-Sung Kwak's complete publications list.

Teaching

• Mass Media in East Asia (ASNS2670)
• Mass Media in Korea (KRNS2680)
• Critical Perspective in Development Studies (SSCP6901)

Supervision

• Press Freedom in South Korea
• The Impact of Korean Wave in Japan

• ‘The Regulation of Pay Television in East Asia: A Comparative Study’, Ubiquitous Media: Asian Transformations, July 2007, Tokyo, Japan.
• ‘Emerging New Broadcast Media in East Asia: A Comparative Study’, Internationalising Media Studies: Imperatives and Impediments, September 2006, London, UK.
• ‘Pay Television in Hong Kong SAR: Expanding or Shrinking?’, 14th AMIC Annual Conference, July 2005, Beijing, China.
• ‘Satellite Television in Multi-channel Age in Japan’, The 2nd Global Conference: New Media and Technological Culture, August 2004, Prague, Czech Republic
• ‘Restructuring Television Industry in South Korea’, 5th World Media Economics Conference, May 2002, Turku, Finland.