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Gil-Soo Han | Monash University - Academia.edu



Gil-Soo Han
Monash University, Communications and Media Studies, Faculty Member
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I am a sociologist researching Communications & Media in the context of cross cultural relations. Over the last two decades, I have applied my sociological insights to media studies, religion, and health/medicine among migrants, International Medical Graduates and other international students.
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Intercultural CommunicationReligious communicationHealth CommunicationReligion, Media, and CultureSociology of Ethnicity and Race
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Books by Gil-Soo Han
Calculated Nationalism in Contemporary South Korea
Calculated Nationalism in Contemporary South Korea, 2023
Nationalism in a nation-state reflects its emergent structural, cultural, and personal properties... more
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Funeral Rites in Contemporary Korea: The Business of Death. (May 2019, Springer)
South Korea ranks number one in suicide rate among the OECD nations and the funeral service indus... more
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Nouveau-riche Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Korea: A Media Narrative Analysis
The unprecedented economic success in a short span of time has led to a large increase in the num... more
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Korean Diaspora and Media in Australia: In Search of Identities.
An essential dimension of why one becomes an immigrant is based on a quest for identities - who o... more
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Healthcare Reform and Interest Groups: Catalysts and Barriers in Rural Australia
Rural Australia has faced many economic and demographic disadvantages. Advances in medical techno... more
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Health and Medicine under Capitalism: Korean Immigrants in Australia
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Social Sources of Church Growth: Korean Churches in the Homeland and Overseas
Social Sources of Church Growth is the product of a comprehensive scientific study conducted to u... more
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Edited Volume by Gil-Soo Han
Budarick, John and Han, Gil-Soo (Ed). 2017. Minorities and Media in Australia: Producers, Industries, Audiences. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
by Gil-Soo Han and John Budarick
This book examines the relationships between ethnic and Indigenous minorities and the media in Au... more
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Papers by Gil-Soo Han
Calculated Nationalism in Contemporary South Korea
Calculated Nationalism in Contemporary South Korea
Nationalism in a nation-state reflects its emergent structural, cultural, and personal properties... more
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The emergence of calculated nationalism in South Korea in the twenty-first century
Routledge eBooks, Jun 26, 2023

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Survey of GP registrar and medical student accommodation needs in RRMAs 4-7, Victoria

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Outside - Looking In: evaluating a community capacity building project
Rural society, 2004
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Nostalgic nationalists in South Korea: the flag-carriers’ struggles
Critical Asian Studies, Mar 16, 2021
ABSTRACT The 2016–2017 Candlelight Revolution was one of the most significant events in recent So... more

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My own business, not my children’s: negotiating funeral rites and the mobility and communication juncture among Chinese migrants in Melbourne
Mobilities
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Korean Diaspora in Australia and New Zealand

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Burial, Crematoria, and Columbaria: Social Status and Wealth in the Afterlife
Funeral Rites in Contemporary Korea, 2019
Particular moments and contexts in human history have produced desirable and privileged methods o... more

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Chinese Immigrants’ Changing Values and Perceptions of Funeral Rites in the Context of Multicultural Australia
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Time to make two Koreas one again: Korean Christians’ self-reflection and diakonia duties
International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 2018
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Approaches to Death, Funeral Rites and Memorialisation in Contemporary Australia: Changes and Continuities
Cemeteries in Victoria were planned and designed 150 years ago, without any major developments ta... more
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Together Here, Now and Forever: Chinese Immigrants’ Belonging in Australia, Family, Ethnicity and Memorialisation
Journal of Intercultural Studies, 2020
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Theoretical Perspectives and Research Methods
Funeral Rites in Contemporary Korea, 2019
From the content of Korean media reports, readers can quickly ascertain that Korean funerals are ... more

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Korean Immigrant Media and Identity: Minority Media, Its Contributions and Constraints
Minorities and Media, 2017
A critical role of ethnic minority media is to provide a platform through which diasporic populat... more

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Minorities and Media
Minorities and Media, 2017
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Funeral Capitalism: Commodification and Digital Marketing of Funeral Services in Contemporary Korea
Korean Studies, 2016
Abstract:This paper attempts to understand and analyze ‘‘pariah-capitalism’’ in South Korea throu... more

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China's capacity of hospitals to deal with infectious diseases in the context of climate change
Social science & medicine (1982), Jan 16, 2018
Infectious diseases are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in China. The capacity of hospit... more
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Analysis of a Play and Five Films of Funeral Services
Funeral Rites in Contemporary Korea, 2019
Film and theatre performances often reflect the realities and concerns of a society and also crit... more

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Community stakeholder and opinion formation toward end-of-life planning in Chinese community in Australia
Death Studies, 2020
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Perceptions of capacity for infectious disease control and prevention to meet the challenges of dengue fever in the face of climate change: A survey among CDC staff in Guangdong Province, China
Environmental Research, 2016
Dengue fever is an important climate-sensitive mosquito-borne viral disease that poses a risk to ... more

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Towards a multi-ethnic public sphere? African-Australian media and minority–majority relations
Media, Culture & Society, 2015
The potential connections between minority ethnic media producers and the majority ethnic group i... more

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Biomedicine and Traditional Medicine: Continuities and Discontinuities in Korean Migrants' Use of Health Care in Australia

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Gwenda Freeman, La Trobe University John McDonald, University of Ballarat

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Transmission of Haemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome in China and the Role of Climate Factors: A Review
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, Jan 19, 2015
Haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is a rodent-borne disease that poses a serious publ... more
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Public health surveillance and the media: a dyad of panoptic and synoptic social control
Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 2015
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The Perfect Marriage between K-pop and Technology
Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 2019
Suk-Young Kim. "K-pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance." Redwood City, CA:... more

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Book Review: Health and Medicine under Capitalism. Korean Immigrants in Australia
International Migration Review, 2001
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Nostalgic nationalists in South Korea: the flag-carriers’ struggles
The 2016–2017 Candlelight Revolution was one of the most significant events in recent South Korea... more

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Still the doctor — by a country mile! Preferences for health services in two country towns in north‐west New South Wales
Medical Journal of Australia, 2004
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Overcoming the new kids on the block syndrome: the media ‘endorsement’ on discrimination against African-Australians
Continuum, 2017
Abstract Negative news reporting in Australia about African immigrants is of concern to them. It ... more

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The Koreans in Sydney
Sydney Journal, 2010
The Korean community in Sydney first became palpable in the early 1970s. The community has contin... more
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Impact of meteorological factors on hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in 19 cities in China, 2005-2014
The Science of the total environment, Jan 15, 2018
This study aims to investigate the associations between meteorological factors and hemorrhagic fe... more

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Men's weight loss stories: How personal confession, responsibility and transformation work as social control
Health (London, England : 1997), 2017
Obesity is considered a public health concern. In Australia, there are a greater number of overwe... more

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Perceptions of malaria control and prevention in an era of climate change: a cross-sectional survey among CDC staff in China
Malaria journal, Mar 31, 2017
Though there was the significant decrease in the incidence of malaria in central and southwest Ch... more
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Korean Cosmetic Surgery and Digital Publicity: Beauty by Korean Design
Media International Australia, 2011
This article examines the relationship between digital publicity and cosmetic surgery. While focu... more

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Association between dengue fever incidence and meteorological factors in Guangzhou, China, 2005–2014
Environmental Research, 2017
This study aims to (1) investigate the associations between climatic factors and dengue; and (2) ... more

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Determinants of the Digital Divide in Rural Communities of a Developing Country: The Case of Malaysia
Development and Society, 2010
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Nouveau-riche Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Korea
Nouveau-riche Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Korea, 2015
1. Introduction 2. Theoretical perspectives on racial discrimination 3. A struggle to legislate a... more

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Infectious Diseases, Urbanization and Climate Change: Challenges in Future China
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2015
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Extreme heat in CALD minorieties1471-2458-14-550

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Korean Diaspora and Media in Australia: In Search of Identities
An essential dimension of why one becomes an immigrant is based on a quest for identities - who o... more

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Oppan Gangnam style: Psy's popularity and its social significance in contemporary Korea
Psy’s music video Gangnam Style has gone viral since its release in July 2012, attracting more th... more

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Positive stories: Why and how African-Australian media matter
In this paper we analyse data from interviews with five African- Australian media producers. Migr... more

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Extreme heat and climate change: adaptation in culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities
Abstract Background: Several overseas studies have identified that people in ethnic minority grou... more

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K-Pop nationalism: Celebrities and acting blackface in the Korean media
Continuum, 2014
Growing internet exposure of Korean media and popular culture has highlighted a phenomenon common... more

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Extreme heat and cultural and linguistic minorities in Australia: perceptions of stakeholders
BMC Public Health, 2014
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Outside - Looking In: Evaluating a community capacity building project
Rural Society, 2004
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The Rise of Western Medicine and Revival of Traditional Medicine in Korea: A Brief History
Korean Studies, 1997
Abstract Hanbang herbal medicine, originally from China but indigenized in Korea, began to lose i... more

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From overt to covert racial discrimination in Australia: the experiences of Korean migrants
Korean Social Science Journal, 2002
... Following the adoption of an official policy of multiculturalism and the beginnings of legal ... more

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The Korean Christian movement towards reunification of the two Koreas: a review in retrospect
International journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 2006
Abstract Debates on the reunification of the two Koreas have been approached from many angles, on... more

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‘Serving Two Masters’: Protestant Churches in Korea and Money
International journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 2009
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Ethnicity, Health and Medical Care: Towards a Critical Realist Analysis of General Practice in the Korean Community in Sydney
Ethnicity & Health, 2006
This paper investigates the use and provision of biomedicine among Korean-Australian men on the b... more

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