EP #331 - 09.01.2021 - Breathing Communities in South Korea

Today I talk with Heewon Kim and Sungeun Kim about South Korea and air quality in the COVID Era.

Sungeun Kim is a PhD candidate at the graduate school of science and technology policy in KAIST. His research interest focuses on the relationship between environmental knowledge, nation-states, and spatial order in East Asia. His dissertation project examines the role of environmental sciences in the making of territorial claims and national identities.

Heewon Kim is a PhD candidate at the graduate school of Science and technology policy in KAIST. She is interested in the entanglement between the knowledge of the human mind and body, technology, and politics.  Her dissertation project examines the history of the sciences of non-verbal communication and the development facial expression recognition technology in the US since the 1960s.