I haven’t had a moment to put together PhD success of my former doctoral students. Here is a summary of those celebratory memories in recent years, together with my wholehearted congratulations to all of them and best wishes to their career. The oral examinations in 2020 under COVID-19 constraints were particularly challenging, as they had […]
A postgraduate course I teach, titled Cities and Social Change in East Asia (Course code: GY438), has blog writing as an assignment. This course is an interdisciplinary course that encourages students to develop a criticalunderstanding of how urban space is transformed in diverse social, economic and political settings. The course is comparative in nature, taking […]
Pleasure to announce the release of a new discussion paper as part of the Discussion Paper Series published by the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE. Co-authored with Dr Mara Nogueira, PhD alumna in Human Geography and Urban Studies, the paper investigates the relations between work and urban space, focusing on the struggles of […]
Each year, SEAC hosts Southeast Asia Forum on campus, but because of the restrictions on mobility in light of COVID-19 pandemic, SEAF in 2020 will be held as a week-long series of online discussions titled LSE Southeast Asia Week between 26 and 30 October. The events will offer a unique opportunity to inform and network with policymakers in […]
Park, S-H., Shin, H.B. and Kang, H-S. (eds.) (2021) Exporting Urban Korea? Reconsidering the Korean Urban Development Experience. Routledge I’m pleased to see the cover design and the publisher proofs of a new forthcoming book that I co-edited with Dr Se Hoon Park and Dr Hyun Soo Kang. This book is A detailed examination of the “Korean […]