Dr. Sung Un Gang

Publications

• (selected)

  • Gang, Sung Un. (forthcoming 2025). Only a Researcher’s Struggle? Reconceiving Ethnographic Field as a Relational Space. In Bernroider et al. (eds.) Intersectionality and the City. London: Routledge.

  • Bernroider, Lucie, Anthony Miro Born, Christy Kulz und Sung Un Gang (eds.). (forthcoming 2025). Intersectionality and the City: Exploring Violence and Inequality in Urban Space. London: Routledge.

  • Gang, Sung Un. (forthcoming 2025). Experiences of Placelessness: Rethinking Queer Economies and Everyday Exclusion in South Korea. Historical Social Review.

  • Gang, Sung Un, Martina Löw, Ara Song und Jörg Stollmann (forthcoming 2025). Can You Pass? Thresholds of Queer Cultural Spaces in Seoul. Space and Culture.

  • Gang, Sung Un. (2024). The Making of Modern Subjects: Public Discourses on Korean Female Spec-tators in the Early Twentieth Century. Bielefeld: transcript.

  • Gang, Sung Un, Martina Löw und Jörg Stollmann. (2024). Verstädterung, Raumkonstitution und Eigentumserwerb. Räumliche Refiguration in Südkorea zwischen Familialismus und queeren Communities. Berliner Journal für Soziologie 34. 647-672.

  • Gang, Sung Un. (2023). Liebesfilme, Geschlechtskrankheiten und eugenische Ehe. Diskurse über Seouler Kinobesucherinnen in den 1920er- und -30er-Jahren. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie 48. 221–242.

     

  • Gang, Sung Un. (2023). “Safe(r) Space.” In Vielfalt. Das Andere Wörterbuch. 100 Wörter – 100 Menschen – 100 Beiträge (S. 192-193). Berlin: Duden.

  • Gang, Sung Un. (2020). K’orona, yŏrǔm kumŏng [Corona, A Summer Hole]. In Ch’oe, J. and others (eds.), Munhak kwa sahoe haip’ǔn: K’orona apect’ǔ [Hyphen: The Corona Affect. The Supplement of Literature and Society] (P. 183–203). Seoul: Munhak kwa chisŏng sa.

• Invited talks (selected)

  • 08/2025
    “Spatial Narratives of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Korean Fictions”. Invited lecture at the 2^nd International Conference for Contemporary Korean Studies, Seoul National University.

  • 11/2024
    “Rediscovering Audience Publicness: Korean Female Spectators and the Challenges of Postcolonial Theater Historiography”. Invited guest lecture at Ohio State University.

  • 07/2024
    “Queer Refiguration of Spaces. Exploring LGBTQIA+ Everyday Lives in Seoul.” Queering Asia. Doing Field Research on Lives in the South Korean and Taiwanese Queer Community. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

  • 01/2024
    “We Are Everywhere. But Where Are We? Exploring Queer Everyday Space in Seoul”. Global Solidarity Lecture Series (online). Virtual NYI #8. The NYI Global Institute of Cultural Cognitive, and Linguistic Studies.

  • 09/2023
    Report on the current state of queer people’s human rights in South Korea. Panel on Asia. ‚Queerpolitische Menschenrechtskonferenz‘, German Bundestag (AG Queer, SPD Parliamentary group).

  • 03/2023
    “Queer People as Emerging Citizens of Seoul. Challenges of Everyday Life and Visions of the Future.” Invited Talk at the National Assembly Futures Institute, South Korea.

• Conference papers (selected)

  • 06/2025
    “Stranger-Sociability and Digital Intimacy: Exploring LGBTQIA+ Communication in Korea”. 32^nd Association for Korean Studies in Europe Conference, The University of Edinburgh.

  • 08/2024
    “The Sense of Placelessness: Analyzing Intersectional Marginalization of Seoul’s Queer Inhabitants” International Geographical Union (IGU), ‘Feminist and Queer Spatialities: Care, Connection and Change Conference’, University College Dublin.

  • 03/2024
    “Exploring Age-Based Conflicts in South Korean Queer Communities: A Sociocultural Analysis”. Área de estudios de asia oriental, ‘Marginality, Inclusion, and Gender in Korea: Past and Present,’ University of Malaga.

  • 06/2023
    “Surviving the Coming of Age. Explorinhg Queer Life Stories through Oral History Interviews.” ‘Korean Youth Spaces, Ecologies and Technologies.’ The University of Edinburgh.

• Media contributions (selected)

  • Deutschlandfunk Nova. (2025). „Südkorea: Wie Präsident Yoon eine Staatskrise ausgelöst hat.“ Guest at Unboxing News.

  • Gang, Sung Un. (2021). „Pandemie oder Shutdown, was beenden wir? Pandemie Vergleich zu Südkorea.“ Guest contribution for ZDF.

  • Güßgen, Florian. (2020). „Herr Gang, wie politisch sind K-Pop-Fans?“ Guest at Stern Nachgefragt.

  • Deutschlandfunk. (2020). „K-Pop-Fans unterstützen Black Lives Matter.“ Guest at CORSO.

• Juror / Advisory Board

  • Korean Film Festival Frankfurt Newcomer Award 2024. Projekt K e.V.

  • Labor für Empowerment, Resilienz & Solidarisches Handeln, Mitglied Advisory Board 2023. Coach e.V.

  • Deutscher Nachbarschaftspreis 2022 Themen-Jury „Vielfalt“. Nebenan.de Stiftung.