Dr. Kyonghwan Park (Department of Geography Education, College of Education, Chonnam National University)

October 14, 2022 (11:00am – 12:00pm)

“Regional Characteristics of Industrial Clusters in Texas and the State Government’s Development Strategy.”

 About the Speaker

Dr. Kyonghwan Park is a Professor in the Department of Geography Education at Chonnam National University, South Korea. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in South Korea, and received his doctoral degree in 2005 from the Department of Geography, University of Kentucky. The title of his dissertation was “Transnational Urbanism in Diaspora Space: Multi-scaled Urban Redevelopment of Los Angeles Koreatown”. Since 2006, he has taught Social Geography, Economic Geography, and History of Geographic Thoughts at Chonnam National University.

Dr. Park’s principal areas of research include diaspora space, transnational economy, and local/regional economic development. Dr. Park’s research approach incorporates qualitative methods such as discourse analysis, archival research, and in-depth interviews, and he also utilizes statistical data for complementing qualitative analysis. He currently studies how post-globalization and geopolitical reterritorialization would influence transnational economic relations and local/regional spaces.