Immanuel Kim

Immanuel Kim is the Korea Foundation and Kim Renaud Professor of Korean literature and culture studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the George Washington University, USA. He is a specialist in North Korean literature, cinema, and culture. His first book Rewriting Revolution (2018) explores the complex and dynamic literary culture, and his second book Laughing North Koreans (2020) is on the ways in which humor has been an integral component of everyday life.

Immanuel Kim is the Korea Foundation and Kim Renaud Professor of Korean literature and culture studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the George Washington University, USA. He is a specialist in North Korean literature, cinema, and culture. His first book Rewriting Revolution (2018) explores the complex and dynamic literary culture, and his second book Laughing North Koreans (2020) is on the ways in which humor has been an integral component of everyday life. See less