Jeeheng Lee
Currently teaching film at Chung-Ang University, she is a member of the Film Subcommittee for the Korea Media Rating Board. She received a Bachelor of Science at the Ewha Woman’s University, a Master of Fine Arts with a focus on Filmmaking at CalArts, and a PhD in Film Studies with a focus on Film Theory at the Graduate School for Art & Technology at Chung-Ang University.
She was a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Cinematic Content at Dankook University, full lecturer in the multimedia department at Hannam University, and lecturer at Yonsei University. Her PhD thesis examined “Disaster and Film: The Emotional Structure of Disaster in 21st Century Film” (2015). Her research interests are posthumanism, relations between visual culture and modernity, and popular culture in new media. While researching symptoms of disaster linked to transglobal capitalism, she stumbled upon the music of BTS, their worldview, and their relationship to ARMYs. After discovering therein an unexpected hope for the world, she is still going through an inner identity crisis. Research papers include (translated titles): “The Present of Korean Fantasy TV Series: Tracing the Motifs of the Superhuman and Time Slips” (2017), “Traversing the World of Serial Catastrophe: The Appearance of Apocalyptic Postmodern Representation” (2017), “The Politics of Hollywood’s Conspiracy Films in the Post-Capitalist Era” (2014), and more.

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Oul Han
Born in Korea in 1983, she emigrated to Germany in 1984. Her personal background made her sensitive to intercultural communication. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins in London, a Master of International Studies in European Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies at Seoul National University, and a PhD in Political Science at the Graduate School of East Asian Studies at the Free University Berlin with a thesis titled “Measuring Frames: Discursive Institutions in Polarized Politics” (2016). Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Web Science and Technologies at the University of Koblenz, she works on social and political polarization, text analysis, online misinformation, and democracy in digital society, and engages in increasing interdisciplinary research.
Previously, she worked as External Affairs officer at the Korea Institute for Public Finance and Taxation, and as postdoctoral researcher at the Korean Studies department of the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (Paris) followed by the Computational Social Science department of GESIS (Cologne).
While living in Paris in early 2017, she came across the “Blood Sweat & Tears” music video on YouTube. Captivated by an undefinable difference that she couldn’t pinpoint, she just wanted to look up their names, fell into the rabbit hole, and came out an ARMY.

Solbee Park
She received her BA from the School of Communication at Northwestern University, and her MA in Interpretation and Translation from the Graduate School of International Studies at Chung Ang University. Currently, she works as a professional interpreter and translator.