Kevin Y. Kim, “Empire, War, Globalization, and Korean America in Global and Transnational Perspectives,” in Companion to Korean American Studies, ed. Rachael Miyung Joo and Shelley Sang-Hee Lee (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 47–76.
Drawing from his larger work on postcolonial Korea and U.S.-Asia relations, Kim’s essay, “Empire, War, Globalization, and Korean America in Global and Transnational Perspectives,” recasts Korean American history as a global and transnational phenomenon occurring at the discursive and material crossroads of Korea-centered globalization from the late nineteenth century decline of Chosŏn Korea and Korea’s colonization by Japan through the Cold War and 1990s-era neoliberal globalization. As Kim argues, Korean America comprised an “inter-imperial” diaspora emerging from the traumatic interstices of U.S.-Korea relations, particularly after World War II.