Dr. Kim, Sung Kyung received her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Essex in UK.

She has joined as Assistant Professor at the University of North Korean Studies and research fellow at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University since 2014, and currently work as a deputy director of the Center for North-South Korea Mind Integration at the University of North Korean Studies.

She is an editor-in-chief in Review of North Korean Studies which is a Korean Citation Index Journal (KCI) issued by Korean Research Foundation.

She previously served as a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and a senior visiting fellow in Asia Research Institute(ARI) at the National University of Singapore(NUS).

She is a member of Peace and Prosperity Division in the Presidential Commission on Policy-Planning and a board member in Ministry of Unification, ROK.

Her research interests are North Korean mobility; Sociology of emotion and affect; cultural geography and etc. Recent publications are in the field of Asian mobility, North Korean defectors, migration studies, and cultural industry.