Michael D. Shin teaches modern Korean literature and history in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago. He is the co-editor of Landlords, Peasants, and Intellectuals in Modern Korea (Cornell East Asia Series, 2005) and the translation editor of the forthcoming A New Interpretation of Neo-Confucianism in Korean History by Yi Tae-Jin (Cornell East Asia Series). His research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of the colonial period (1910-1945), and he is currently completing a manuscript based on his research into the controversial journalist and novelist Yi Kwangsu. 

John Woo
Executive Director
Woo Art

John Woo co-founded, in 1981, Woo Art International, the New York based creative services, digital media design and entertainment production fi rm. In 1998 he designed the multimedia rotunda exhibit for the Museum of Jewish Heritage at New York’s Battery Park City. He created, with writer Jessica Hagedorn, the animated series The Pink Palace for the Oxygen Media Network. In 1995 he produced Shu Lea Cheang’s Fresh Kill, and more recently produced Cheang’s documentary Garlic=Rich-Air. His recent executive producer credits include Slow Jam King, a feature fi lm written and directed by Steven Mallorca, and Cinema AZN, an entertainment news program for AZN Television, which he co-created with Roger Garcia. Since January 2000 Woo has headed the executive committee of Asian CineVision, the New York based non-profit media arts organization that presents the annual Asian American International Film Festival.  

Ji-Hong Lee Public Relations Manager
Korean Cultural Service of New York

Ji-Hong Lee is Public Relations Manager for the Korean Cultural Service New York, an organization representing South Korea’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Fluent in both English and Korean, Lee joined the Korean Cultural Service New York soon after graduating from Boston University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations. At the Korean Cultural Service New York, he is in charge of public and media relations and has worked to introduce Hallyu to New York. Lee has studied and worked extensively throughout Europe and Asia.  

Frances Gateward
Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Frances Gateward teaches film and popular culture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has presented her research on Korean fi lm in Hong Kong, Chicago, and at the University of Iowa. Her publications on Asian film include “Breaking the Silence: An Interview with Dai Sil Kim Gibson” (Quarterly Review of Film and Video), “Youth in Crisis: National and Cultural Identity in New Korean Cinema” (Multiple Modernities: Cinema and Popular Media in Transcultral East Asia), “Bubblegum and Heavy Metal” (Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Cinemas of Girlhood ), and “Wong Fei Hung in da House: Kung Fu Cinema and Hip Hop Culture” (forthcoming in Chinese Connections: Critical Perspectives on Film, Identity and Diaspora). She is also the editor of Zhang Yimou: Interviews (Mississippi University Press), Seoul Searching: Culture and Identity in Korean Cinema (currently in production) and A Critical Filmography of World Cinema—Korea (in progress).