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Dr. Taesik Kim serves as Senior Lecturer in Communications and Deputy Head of School (Education) at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University Malaysia. He obtained his PhD in Communication Studies from the University of Oklahoma in 2012, MA in Cultural Anthropology from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York in 2004, and BA in Political Science from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in 1999. His career includes Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Studies and Journalism at Masaryk University, Czech Republic from 2015 to 2022, and Post-Doctoral Lecturer there from 2012 to 2015. Additionally, he is an External Researcher at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies since 2020, Editor-in-Chief of Mediální studia / Media Studies since 2021, and Editor of the Korean Journal of Broadcasting & Telecommunications Research since 2022. Kim teaches subjects such as visual communication, urban communication, the political economy of digital media, and Transnational Asia.

Kim's academic interests encompass transnational media communication, urban communication, sociolinguistics with a focus on linguistic landscapes, migration and diasporic practices, visual communication, and Korean media and culture. He leads the school's TIES research platform (Transnational Interactions: East Asia and Southeast Asia), which includes a research boot camp program, and serves as Primary Chief Investigator for the project 'Digital Technologies as a New Agenda and Mediator of Public Diplomacy: Fostering Korea-Southeast Asia Collaboration' running from 2025. His scholarship has appeared in leading journals including City, International Journal of Multilingualism, Geoforum, and International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics. Notable publications include 'The geosemiotics of urban transnationalism: a case study of Vietnamese commercial landscapes in Prague' (2024), 'Celebrating local heritage while marginalizing local language: the multilingual linguistic landscapes of Seongsu-dong in Seoul' (2023), 'Center and margin on the margin: A study of the multilayered (Korean) Chinese migrant neighborhood in Daerim-dong, South Korea' (2021, Geoforum), 'Mythologizing the face mask: how protective covers became political during the fine-dust and COVID-19 crises in South Korea' (2021), and 'Young migrant Vietnamese in the Czech Republic reflect diasporic contexts in their identification of cultural proximity with Korean media' (2020). Kim has earned the Faculty of Arts Dean’s Research Award 2025 for Excellence in Enterprising Research, recognizing his international partnerships with institutions like Seoul National University and Waseda University; the Seoul City Mayor’s Special Award in 2021 as advisor; and a Book Publication Grant from the Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea in 2020-2021. He maintains active collaborations with scholars in Korea and Japan.