Dr Geonyoung Kim

My PhD thesis explores the role of museums in the process of reconciliation. I am using exhibitions on the Korean War in South Korea as case studies to study the impact of museums on how the present society negotiates its relationship with the conflicting past.

I use visual analysis methods (textual analysis, image analysis, object analysis) to explore the narrative construction and visual communications in museums.

From 2025, I am leading a reserach project titled "Heritage beyond Borders: Inclusive Approaches to Heritage Governance and Equity – the Case of Korean Collections outside of Korea" funded by Korean National Commission for UNESCO.

Publications 

Kim, G. (2026, in press) ‘Making Bottom-up Narratives in the Korean War Heritage: the Case of the Jeju 4.3 Peace Park’, Heritage, Memory and Conflict Journal 

Kim, G. (2026, in press) ‘Examining the Impact of South Korea’s Involvement in North Korea’s Archaeological Site Management: The Case of Inter-Korea Joint Excavation at the Manwoldae Site’, Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13505033.2026.2619839 

Kim, G. (2026, in press) ‘Practising and performing semi-colonial heritage in China: the case of Shanghai and Qingdao’, in Asia's Colonial Heritage: Legacies of Empire, Singapore: Springer

Kim, G., 2024. Museum representation of the Korean War and their role in the practice of reconciliation. NEPCAP Policy Brief 1, 10–12.

Robbeets, M., Hudson, M., Ning, C., Bouckaert, R., Savelyev, A., Kim, G., Li, T., Oskolskaya, S., Gruntov, I., Mazo, O., 2022. Triangulation reduces the polygon of error for the history of Transeurasian. bioRxiv 2010–2022. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.05.510045

Robbeets, M., Bouckaert, R., Conte, M., Savelyev, A., Li, T., An, D.-I., Shinoda, K., Cui, Y., Kawashima, T., Kim, G., Uchiyama, J., Dolińska, J., Oskolskaya, S., Yamano, K.-Y., Seguchi, N., Tomita, H., Takamiya, H., Kanzawa-Kiriyama, H., Oota, H., Ishida, H., Kimura, R., Sato, T., Kim, J.-H., Deng, B., Bjørn, R., Rhee, S., Ahn, K.-D., Gruntov, I., Mazo, O., Bentley, J.R., Fernandes, R., Roberts, P., Bausch, I.R., Gilaizeau, L., Yoneda, M., Kugai, M., Bianco, R.A., Zhang, F., Himmel, M., Hudson, M.J., Ning, C., 2021. Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages. Nature 599, 616–621. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04108-8

Tourigny, E., Newstead, S., Kim, G., Fusco Zambetogliris, N., Corvo, V.P., 2020. Global post-medieval/historical archaeology: what’s happening around the world 2020? Post-Medieval Archaeology 54, 371–382. https://doi.org/10.1080/00794236.2020.1812899

Kim, G. (2025). ‘Archaeology and Heritage Group - A Journey to Healing and Justice through Art: Brothers Home and Transitional Justice in South Korea’, Cambridge Heritage Research Centre Bulletin, 7th April 2025, pp.3-4. 

Kim, G. (2024). ‘AAHG (Asia’s Archaeology and Heritage Group) hosts first event’, Cambridge Heritage Research Centre Bulletin, 5th March 2024, pp.3-4.