Michelle Cho

I'm a researcher of East Asian popular cultures at the University of Toronto. My research and teaching areas are South Korean film, television, popular music, and digital culture, transnational fandom, platforms, global media, and the frictions and flows between the Asian North American diaspora and East Asian culture industries. I'm currently co-editing a volume on gender and popular media in South Korea since the #MeToo movement and a collection of essays on the K-pop group BTS. My public-facing writing on film, K-pop, fandom, and media convergence can be found at flowjournal.org, Even Magazine and The Los Angeles Review of Books. I'm also a frequent commentator on Korean wave media in outlets ranging from the CBC to NPR, the LA Times, the BBC, GMA, Bloomberg, Reuters, Vox Media, CNN, Al Jazeera, and the Washington Post. In the fall of 2022, I moderated a public conversation between hallyu stars and BFFs Lee Jung Jae and Jung Woo Sung at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).