Sung Un Gang
B03: Smart PeopleTechnische Universität Berlin
BH-N Building
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 1
Room 228
10587 Berlin
CV
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Academic career
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since 06/2022
PostDoc researcher of CRC 1265 „Re-Figuration of Spaces,“ project „B03 Smart People: Queer everyday lives in digitalized spaces.“ Institute of Architecture, Technische Universität Berlin
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04/2015 - 05/2022
PhD in Theater- and Media studies, University of Cologne.
Dissertation: The Making of Modern Subjects: Public Discourses about Korean Female Spectators in the Early Twentieth Century -
09/2019 - 05/2022
Research associate of Insitute for Orient- and Asian studies (Korean studies), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
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03/2018 - 08/2018
Junior Fellow of International Center for Korean Studies at Kyujanggak Institute, Seoul National University
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Work experiences
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since 05/2021
Column „Koelleun“ for Zwischengang
www.zwischengang.de -
since 01/2020
Production of the queer Asian interview podcasts "Bin ich süßsauer?"
https://binichsuesssauer.podigee.io -
02/2013 - 09/2019
Correspondent in Germany of the news magazine Sisa Journal
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05/2007 - 07/2009
CIvil service, district office of Seoul
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Course of study
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10/2010 - 11/2013
M.A. German studies, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
M.A. thesis: Thomas Mann’s Novel Doktor Faustus and the Question of German Sin after 1945
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03/2004 - 08/2010
B.A. German studies, Seoul National University
B.A. thesis: The Developing Concept of the Bad and the Metamorphosis of the Devil’s Figure in Faust Literature
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Grants
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Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Goethe Institut (2021). Competition for multilingual podcasts. Finalist
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Spotify (2019). SoundUp LGBTTIQ Podcast Workshop in Germany. Finalist
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a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne (2015-2018). Doctoral scholarship holder
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Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (2011-2013). M.A. scholarship holder
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Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (2009-2010). Scholarship holder of German Studies Institutional Partnership
Research Focus
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Cultural history of Korea
Queer studies
Urban culture
Postcolonial studies
Discourse analysis
Publications
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Gang, Sung Un. (2021). From Streets to Theaters: The Emergence of the Korean Entertainment Business in the Early 20th Century. In Meyer, H., Yukawa, S., & Bachem, N. (eds.), Ostasien im Blick: Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Reinhard Zöllner (P. 145–66). Großheirath: Ostasien Verlag.
Gang, Sung Un. (2020). K’orona, yŏrǔm kumŏng [Corona, A Summer Hole]. In Ch’oe, J. and others (eds.), Munhak kwa sahoe haip’ǔn: K’orona apect’ǔ [Hyphen: The Corona Affect. The Supplement of Literature and Society] (P. 183–203). Seoul: Munhak kwa chisŏng sa.
Gang, Sung Un. (2020). „K’orona!“ Asiain ǔi kyŏnghŏm: bairŏsǔ ka tǔrŏnaen injong ch’abyŏl munje“ [„Corona!” Experiences of Asian People. Problems of Racism that the Virus Has Revealed]. In Park, E. (eds.), Posǔt’ǔ k’orona sahoe: p’andemic ǔi kyŏnghŏm kwa talajin segye [The Post Corona Society. Experiences of the Pandemics and the World That Has Changed] (P. 85-93). P’aju: Kǔl hang’ari.
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Conference papers (selected)
01/2021
“COVID-19 and Challenges of the Asian Communities: A Case Study on the Online Activism on the German-Speaking Internet.” The Living, Caring, and Networking of Diaspora in the Age of Uncertainty. Center for Global Diaspora Studies of Chonnam National University, Südkorea.06/2019
“From the Ugly Duckling to the Golden Goose: Yu Kil-chun’s Rediscovery of Play (Sandaehŭi) as a Profit-Making Business for the State.” Korean Intellectuals In Between: Configuring knowledge in periods of transition: Concluding Conference of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS) Overseas Leading University Project (OLUP) “Transcoding as Cultural and Social Practice.” Ruhr University Bochum.11/2018
“Cinema Kiss: Challenges of the Western Romantic Films in Colonial Korea.” 8. Conference of Vereinigung für Koreaforschung (VfK). Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main.09/2017
“Between Spectator and Spectacle. Transformation of Women’s Spectatorship during the Chosŏn Dynasty (1392-1897).” Cambridge 2017 AHRC DTP Conference “Tradition and Transformation.” University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK).02/2016
“The Test of Love. Imagination and Representation of Korea on German Stage in 1930.” Colloquium and conference “Writing Global Theatre History.” Jawahalal Nehru University, New Delhi.
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Media contributions (selected)
Gang, Sung Un. (2021). „Pandemie oder Shutdown, was beenden wir? Pandemie Vergleich zu Südkorea.“ Guest contribution for ZDF.
Gang, Sung Un. (2021). „Just Be a Free Spirit.“ Guest contribution for Goethe Institut.
Güßgen, Florian. (2020). „Herr Gang, wie politisch sind K-Pop-Fans?“ Guest at Stern Nachgefragt.
Deutschlandfunk. (2020). „K-Pop-Fans unterstützen Black Lives Matter.“ Guest at CORSO.