Publications

Work in progress

Just geography: Critical development in/through Asian migrations

Go to the bustling South: Inter-Asian North-South migration in South Korean mobilities to Vietnam, with Kwon Heo
Revise and resubmit to Population, Space and Place

“Remembering and forgetting South Korean participation in the Vietnam War: Place-making memorials and the transnational politics of postwar memory”, with Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi
Submitted to Verge: Studies in Global Asias

Nationality, skill, and privilege in inter-Asian high-skilled migration: Vietnamese graduates turned local workers in South Korea, with Yilsoon Paek and Weejun Park

Peer-reviewed articles

The twinning of the Global East: Notes from South Korea-Vietnam sister cities
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544251407069

Repositioning southern cities in transnational city networks: the case of South Korea-Vietnam sister cities
Urban Geography, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2025.2528845

Migration infrastructure and education migration brokers: focusing on the agency for studying abroad in Vietnam
(이주 인프라와 교육 이주 브로커: 베트남 내 유학원을 사례로) (with Yilsoon Paek and Weejun Park)
Journal of the Korean Geographical Society, 2025, 60(4), 482-503
https://doi.org/10.22776/kgs.2025.60.4.482

Migrant categorisations and intra-group heterogeneity within the Vietnamese community in South Korea
Asian Ethnicity, 2025, 26(1), 155-173
https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2024.2379438

Transnational marriage networks for intra-Asian circuit of mobilities, investment and development: Vietnamese marriage migrant women’s investments in Vietnam (with Haeran Shin)
International Development Planning Review, 2024, 46(1), 67-88
https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2022.13

Making of Vietnamese food in Seoul: forms of capital and the intra-diversity in framing taste and menu (with Jurak Kim & Kwon Heo)
Food, Culture & Society, 2024, 27(3), 810-827
https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2023.2176991

Spatial expansion of ethnic entrepreneurship: the case of Vietnamese immigrant-owned restaurants in Seoul
(민족 기업가 정신의 공간적 확산: 서울 내 베트남 이주민의 음식점을 중심으로) (with Jurak Kim and Kwon Heo)
Asia Review, 2023, 13(2), 59-81
https://doi.org/10.24987/SNUACAR.2023.8.13.2.59

Characteristics of Foreign Migrants’ Mobility Capital and Network Capital: The Case of Vietnamese Migrants in South Korea
(외국인 이주자의 모빌리티 자본과 네트워크 자본의 특성: 한국 내 베트남 이주자를 사례로) (with Suh-hee Choi and Yil-soon Paek)
Journal of the Korean Geographical Society, 2023, 58(3), 217-235
https://doi.org/10.22776/kgs.2023.58.3.217

Place-making of Vietnamese married immigrant women in South Korea: Vietnamese language classes for multicultural children
Space and Environment, 2022, 32(1), 166-193
https://doi.org/10.19097/kaser.2022.32.1.166

The marriage migration regime of Vietnamese women in South Korea: evolving roles of governments, matchmakers, and migrants
Asia Review, 2022, 12(1), 421-452
https://doi.org/10.24987/SNUACAR.2022.4.12.1.421