My disciplinary training is sociological, but I greatly appreciate anthropological and historical insights in my teaching and research. Throughout my academic career, my research “subjects”/participants have been from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse people; or the disadvantaged, such as immigrants, overseas trained professionals, and rural population. In my research into these populations, there have been 3 key sources of evidence for analysis. They are:

• the study of participants' experiences;
• how they represent themselves in, or how they are represented by, the media; and
• how their life is enabled and restrained by socio-cultural/economic factors. This is reflected in my research publications where ethnic, local and national media representations are critical sources of empirical data.

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Joining Monash Communications & Media Studies in 2008, I have continued my sociological insights and extended to the study of Communications & Media. I have well embraced the very broad definition of Communication which regards human relations and interactions as the product of how humans (un)successfully communicate with each other. For example, how immigrants are well integrated is a matter of how the host society and immigrants are willing to or (un)successfully communicate with each other.

Major monographs:

• Protestantism, Money and Nationalism in Contemporary South Korea: The Erosion of Credibility (Leiden University Press, Forthcoming March 2027).
• Calculated Nationalism in Contemporary South Korea: Movements for Political and Economic Democratization in the 21st Century (2023, Amsterdam University Press).
  • Korean translation: 한국의 계산적 민족주의 (Calculated Nationalism in Contemporary South Korea), (2025, 도서출판 해남, *Haenam Publishing Co.), 한국경제학술총서 (Korea Economics Academic Series).
    • *Selected as an Outstanding Academic Book by the National Academy of Sciences of Korea in 2026. 
• Funeral Rites in Contemporary Korea: The business of death (2019, Springer).
  
  • Korean translation: 한국의 장례 문화와 상조업 (Funeral Rites in Contemporary Korea), (2024, 도서출판 해남, *Haenam Publishing Co.), 한국경제학술총서 (Korea Economics Academic Series).
• Nouveau-riche Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Korea: A media narrative analysis (2016, Routledge).
  • Korean translation: 한국의 졸부적 민족주의와 다문화주의 (Nouveau-riche Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Korea), (2023, 도서출판 해남, Haenam Publishing Co.), 한국경제 학술총서 (Korea Economics Academic Series).
• Korean Diaspora and Media in Australia: In search of identities (2012, Univ Press of America).
• Healthcare Reform and Interest Groups: Catalysts and barriers in rural Australia (with Frank Evans, 2006, Univ Press of America).
• Health and Medicine under Capitalism: Korean immigrants in Australia (2000, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press).
• Social Sources of Church Growth: Korean Churches in the Homeland and Overseas (1994, Univ Press of America).
• Minorities and Media in Australia: Producers, Industries, Audiences (Co-Ed 2017, Palgrave).

My research impact and contributions beyond Communications & Media research, prior to and post 2008, is international and cumulative. I have been an invited panel speaker at national and international conferences.