Inter-Asian North-South Migration

Go to the Bustling South: Intra‐Asian North‐South Migration in South Korean Mobilities to Vietnam (with Kwon Heo)
Population, Space and Place, 2026, 32(3), 1-13

Inter-Asian Urbanism: Transnational City Networks

The twinning of the Global East: Notes from South Korea-Vietnam sister cities
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 2025, 44(4), 647–668

Repositioning southern cities in transnational city networks: the case of South Korea-Vietnam sister cities
Urban Geography, 2025

International Student Migration

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

Marriage Migration

Cultural Criminology: Discourse, Context, and Agency of Undocumented Vietnamese Female Married Migrants in South Korea (with Hai Thanh Luong)
Book Chapter in Vietnamese Organized Crime in its International Dimension: The Collected Case Studies. Edited by Luong, et al., 2026, Routledge

Migrant categorisations and intra-group heterogeneity within the Vietnamese community in South Korea
Asian Ethnicity, 2025, 26(1), 155-173

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

Place-making of Vietnamese married immigrant women in South Korea: Vietnamese language classes for multicultural children
Space and Environment, 2022, 32(1), 166-193

The marriage migration regime of Vietnamese women in South Korea: evolving roles of governments, matchmakers, and migrants
Asia Review, 2022, 12(1), 421-452

Ethnic Entrepreneurship

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

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

Mobilities

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