Mihye Cho 

Academic Positions

2025 - Present      Specially Appointed Associate Professor       Global Liberal Arts Program, Rikkyo University, Japan

2024                        Assistant Professor                     Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Japan 

2024 Associate Professor Department of Sociology, Sungkonghoe University, Korea 

2020 - 2024 Assistant Professor               Department of Sociology, Sungkonghoe University, Korea 

2011 - 2019          Assistant Professor                 Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Singapore University of Technology and Design

2011 - 2012         Visiting Scholar                    Department of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

2009 - 2010          Visiting Assistant Professor       Division of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2008 - 2009          Postdoctoral Fellow                    Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Research Interest

Urban Studies, Cultural Studies, Valuation, Work

Education 

2007         Bielefeld University, Germany                                       Ph.D. in Sociology

2000 University of Warwick, UK                             MA in European Cultural Policy and Administration

1998    Yonsei University, Korea                             BA in History

1997      University of Sheffield, UK                             Exchange Studentship (East Asian Studies, History, Sociological Studies)

Publications

Monograph 

Cho, M. Entrepreneurial Seoulite: Culture and Subjectivity in Hongdae, Seoul, University of Michigan Press, 2019

Edited Book

Chong, K. and Cho, M. Creative Ageing Cities: Urban Design with Older People in High-Density Asian Cities, Routledge, 2018

Journal Articles

Kim, J. and Cho, M. Reflections on the Mobility Turn and the Relationality of (im)mobilities, Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies, 2026

Yu, H. and Cho, M. A Qualitative Study of the Impact of Dormitory Experience on the College Life, Korean Association of Learner-Centered Curriculum and                Instruction 24(9), 2024

Peik, S. and Cho, M. 10.29 Itaewon Halloween Tragedy and Grievability for the Living: the Stories of the Survivors. Korean Journal of Cultural Sociology                       31(3):7-49, 2023

Peik, S., Jang, S., Chang, J., Park,S. and Cho, M. Seoul 2022, Streetnotes 30 (1): 61-68, 2023

Cho, M. 'Smart Nation' and 'Social Acceleration': Imagining 'Urban Kampung' in Singapore, Korean Association Southeast Asian Studies 32 (4):37-77, 2022

Cho, M. Quality of Life and Diverse Temporalities amid Fast Urbanism. Asian Journal of Social Science 48 (5-6): 427-448, 2020

Kim, J. and Cho, M. Creating a Sewing Village in Seoul: Towards a Participative or a Post-Political Urban Policy? Community Development                                               Journal 54 (3):406-426, 2019  

Cho, M., Jon Dunbar's Leftover Seoul, Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review vol. 29, 2019

Cho, M., Ha, T., Lim, T. and Chong, K., “Small Places” of Ageing in a High-Rise Housing Neighbourhood. Journal of Aging Studies 47: 57-65, 2018 

Chia, A. and Cho, M., Leaning through ‘Design’: How Undergraduates in Singapore Learn to Become Engineers. Children’s Geographies 16 (1): 27-38, 2018

Cho, M. and Kim, J., Coupling Urban Regeneration and Ageing-in-Place. Cities 58: 107-114, 2016

Seo, J., Cho, M. and Skelton, T., Dynamic Busan: Envisioning a Global Hub City. Cities 46: 26-34, 2015

Chong, K. and Cho, M. Appropriating Traditions in Contested Space: Placemaking by the Elderly in Singapore and Seoul, Traditional Dwellings and                               Settlements Working Paper Series (261): 40-63, 2015

Cho, M. and Shin, S., Economization of Conservation of Obsolete Industrial Spaces? Habitat International 41: 69-76, 2014

Cho, M. Cultural Politics in a Cultural District: Envisioning a World City Seoul, South Korea Asian Studies Review, 34(3): 329-247, 2010

Book Chapters

Kim, J. and Cho, M., Reflections on the Complexities Between Mobility, Immobility and Migration In: Transnational Mobility of People, Ideas, and Goods between Korea and Europe, Heidelberg University, forthcoming

Cheng, S., Cho, M., Kim, J. and Chong, K., Neighbourhood Quality of Life and Space, In: Data-driven Smart Community Design: Strategies for Fostering                           Inclusive and Resilient Neighbourhoods (Chong, K. eds), Routledge, 2025

Chong, K., Fricker, P., Yogiaman, C., and Cho, M., Application of Smart Community Design, In: Data-driven Smart Community Design: Strategies for     Fostering  Inclusive and Resilient Neighbourhoods (Chong, K. eds), Routledge, 2025

Chia, A. and Cho, M., Leaning through ‘Design’: How Undergraduates in Singapore Learn to Become Engineers, In Realities and Aspirations for Asian Youth:                Education,Training, Employment, Routledge, 2019

Chong, K. and Cho, M., Introduction, In Creative Ageing Cities: Urban Design with Older People in High-Density Asian Cities, Routledge, 2018

Kim, J.and Cho, M., Fostering Government-Citizen Collaboration and Inter-Generational Cooperation,  In Creative Ageing Cities: Urban Design with Older                     People in High-Density Asian Cities, Routledge, 2018

Cho, M., and Chong, K., Conclusion. In Creative Ageing Cities: Urban Design with Older Peoplin High-Density Asian Cities, Routledge, 2018

Chong, K., Zheng, J., Loo, D. and Cho, M., Successful Aging in High-Density City: A Review of Singapore’s Urban Policies,  In International Perspectives on                        age-Friendly Cities, Routledge, 2015

Cho, M., Turning the Hongdae Area into a Cool Cultural District in Seoul (Cho, M.). In New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities: From Industrial Restructuring to  the Cultural Turn, Routledge, 2010