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Dr Ki-Sung Kwak

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

Research areas

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

Current projects

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

Selected publications

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 and 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 and 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 and 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.

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Areas of teaching and research supervision

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
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Conference activity

  • ‘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.
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