EP #365 -10.26.2021 - Public Health, Korean Culture, and COVID-19

Today I welcome Science, Technology, and Society scholar Hyomin Kim to discuss COVID, science, and culture in South Korea.

Hyomin Kim is an Associate Professor, School of Liberal Arts, of the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology. Her research interests include the co-production of knowledge, values, identities and authority around technoscience. She has performed research projects in the field of public engagement with science and technology (PEST).  She is the co-author of “Public Deliberation on South Korean Nuclear Power Plants: How Can Lay Knowledge Resist against Expertise?” (East Asian Science and Technology), and “Women and Men in Computer Science: Geeky Proclivities, College Rank, and Gender in Korea”