Kyung Hyun Kim

Kyung Hyun Kim is a creative writer, a scholar, and a film producer, who is currently a professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, UC Irvine. He has worked with internationally renowned directors such as Hong Sang-soo, Lee Chang-dong and Marty Scorsese. Prof. Kim is author of academic books--all of them published by Duke University Press, and a Korean-language novel about a Korean mother combing through the US in search of her missing son during his junior year in a Massachusetts prep school. He has coproduced and co-scripted two award-winning feature films and his co-scripted film screenplay won the cash prize (US$ 30,000) by being selected for the 2019 Best Film Development Project by the Korean Film Commission. He has also written The Mask Debate, which premiered in February 2021, through UCI’s Illuminations: Chancellor’s Initiative in Arts and Drama YouTube channel.