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Jinhee Park is a media scholar who specializes in Korean cinema and visual culture. She received her PhD in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. Prior to her PhD, she earned her MFA in Film at Syracuse University. Her first book project, Aesthetics of Reversibility: Post-Cold War Cinema in the Division of Korea explores the cinematic aesthetics that stemmed from the post-Cold War condition of divided Korea in the early twenty-first century. Her research uses an interdisciplinary methodology that includes film theory, cultural studies, new media studies, and East Asian Studies. Her current research is on information and communication technology in South Korean media culture, including social media, mobile technology, augmented reality, and virtual reality.