Sangjoon Lee is an Associate Professor of Asian cinema at the City University of Hong Kong's School of Creative Media. Lee is the author of Cinema and the Cultural Cold War: US Diplomacy and the Origins of the Asian Cinema Network (Cornell University Press, 2020; Korean edition in 2023 and Chinese edition in 2024) and the editor/co-editor of Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media (University of Michigan Press, 2015), Rediscovering Korean Cinema (University of Michigan Press, 2019; 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title), Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas (Amsterdam University Press, 2024), The Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas (Routledge, 2024), and The South Korean Film Industry (University of Michigan Press, 2024). Currently, Lee is completing a monograph titled Destination Hong Kong: South Korean Cinema’s Encounter with Sinophone Cinemas, which chronicles the seven-decade-long interactions between South Korean cinema and the diasporic Sinophone cinemas of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore. He is also working on a new edited volume, Netflix and South Korean Media in a Globalizing World (Brill). Lee's works have been translated into Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Italian.


Dal Yong Jin is Distinguished SFU Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, where his research explores digital platforms and digital games, globalization and media, transnational cultural studies, and the political economy of media and culture. He is the author of numerous books, including Korea’s Online Gaming Empire (MIT Press, 2010), New Korean Wave: Transnational Cultural Power in the Age of Social Media (University of Illinois Press, 2016), Smartland Korea: Mobile communication, Culture and Society (University of Michigan Press, 2017), Globalization and Media in the Digital Platform Age (Routledge, 2019), and Transmedia Storytelling in East Asia (ed. Routledge, 2020). Jin has also published many articles in scholarly journals, such as New Media and Society, The Information Society, Media, Culture and Society, International Journal of Communication, Telecommunications Policy, Television and New Media, Games and Culture, and Information Communication and Society. He is the founding book series editor of Routledge Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia while directing the Center for Policy Research on Science and Technology (CPROST) at SFU.


Jason Bechervaise is an academic and film critic based in Seoul where he has taught Korean Cinema at Korea University and at other universities. His Ph.D thesis, titled Bong Joon-ho and the Korean Film Industry: The National and Transnational Cinema Intersection, was completed at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea (2017). He is the author of several articles including “Parasite Forges New Paradigm on Transnational and National Cinema Intersection” (2020), “Inter-Korean Relations Remain Precarious: The Spy Gone North, Illang: The Wolf Brigade, Swing Kids and Take Point – trends in Korean Cinema in 2018” (2019), in Contemporary Cinema Studies, Contemporary Cinema Research Institute. He has regularly written film criticism in The Korea Times and Screen International and is currently featured on KBS World Radio as a film critic.