Jiyul Kim

Visiting Instructor of history Jiyul Kim was cited in a Washington Post article on the reunion of the "Chosin Few" veterans of the Korean War. Kim is writing a new history of the Korean War for Cambridge University Press in collaboration with East Asian Studies Professor Sheila Miyoshi Jager.

Visiting Instructor of History Jiyul Kim and Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager recently published "The Lasting Legacies of Korean War Special Operations" in the special Summer 2020 issue of the Wilson Quarterly marking the 70th anniversary of the Korean War and a series of posts on "New and Old Sources on Select Korean War Topics & Issues" on The Wilson Center History & Public Policy Program's Sources & Methods site.

Visiting Instructor of History Jiyul Kim participated with three visual artists, Mahwish Chishty, Matthew Deibel, and Barbara Koenen, in a panel talk titled "E Pluribus: Reflections on 9/11" at 5:30-7:30 p.m., Wednesday, September 11, 2019. The panel accompanies the exhibit "E Pluribus: Reflections on the Anniversary of 9/11" at the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA) gallery.

Visiting Assistant Professor of History Jiyul Kim was quoted in an Agence France Presse (AFP) story about North Korean soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War.

Visiting Assistant Professor of History Jiyul Kim was quoted in the Wall Street Journal article "Old Enemies Meet Again on the Battlefield, This Time to Recover the Dead" on a story about the recovery of Korean War remains from the Korean DMZ.

Jiyul Kim, visiting instructor of history, presented a lecture on October 5, 2018, at Kendal at Oberlin about U.S. global engagement and the military as part of Kendal's Great Decisions lecture series. 

Visiting Assistant Professor of History Jiyul Kim and Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager presented a two-part talk on April 16 titled "Prospects for Peace and War in Korea" at Kendal at Oberlin. This was an updated version of a similar talk presented as part of the Oberlin College history department's "History Behind the News" series. Jager provided the political, economic, ideological, and cultural context while Kim focused on the military dimension behind the current situation on the Korean peninsula.

Jiyul Kim, visiting assistant professor of history, presented a lecture, “Prospects for Afghanistan and Pakistan” on December 1, 2017, as part of the Great Decisions lecture series at Kendal at Oberlin.

Visiting Assistant Professor of history Jiyul Kim and Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager signed a contract with Cambridge University Press to co-author The Korean War: A New History for publication in 2022.

The book will consider the conflict as part of The Long Korean War that began with the emergence of competing versions of modern Korean nationalism in the early 20th century and extending to the present, with no end in sight. It will also cover new aspects and perspectives of the war coming from the fields of international, social, and cultural history as well as its memory among the participant countries.

Jiyul Kim, visiting assistant professor of history, presented the lecture "Conflict in the South China Sea" on October 6 as part of Kendal at Oberlin's Great Decisions lecture series. He also provided an update to his December 2016 talk "The Koreas" through discussion of the current situation in North Korea.

Visiting Assistant Professor of History Jiyul Kim presented a public lecture sponsored by the Oberlin Heritage Center on October 18 on "The Korean War: How It Changed Our World."

Visiting Assistant Professor of History Jiyul Kim published a chapter on the "Strategic Culture of the Republic of Korea" in Security Cultures and Security Policies In the Asia-Pacific (Routledge, 2015). This is a book edition of the article published in a special issue of the journal Contemporary Security Policy (35.2, June 2014). The chapter explores the interaction between Korean culture and its foreign/security policy.

Visiting Assistant Professor of History Jiyul Kim gave a presentation on the strategic culture of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) on October 16 at a East-West Center in Washington conference on "Asian Responses to Perceptions of Asia-Pacific Strategic Cultures." The conference critically considered essays on Asia-Pacific strategic cultures published in a special issue of the journal Contemporary Security Policy (Vol. 35, No. 2 Jul 2014).

Visiting Assistant Professor of history Jiyul Kim gave lectures on pre-modern and modern Korean history to K-12 teachers from the greater Boston area at the annual Korean Studies Workshop October 10-11. Organized by University of Massachusetts at Lowell, the purpose of the three-day workshop was to provide professional education to teachers to help them incorporate Korean subject matter into their curriculum.

Visiting Assistant Professor of History Jiyul Kim published a chapter on "United Nations Command and Korean Augmentation" in the Ashgate Research Companion to the Korean War (James Matray & Donald Boose, eds).

Visiting Assistant Professor of History Jiyul Kim published an article entitled "Strategic Culture of the Republic of Korea" in the journal Contemporary Security Policy. The article explores the interaction between Korean foreign policy and Korean culture, a subject that he has taught for the last three years at Oberlin.