Korean Comfort Women

Conclusion

This module provides a brief history of Japanese military comfort women, specifically focusing on Korean comfort women; a political debate between the Korean and Japanese governments; and mass media reports on the issue. It also previews three different movies that portray the lives of Korean comfort women. After reading this module about comfort women, what have you learned?
 

Author Biography

Dr. Shin's primary line of research focuses on health communication and culture with the focus on prevention intervention. Using a mixed-methods approach, she has conducted a series of studies that examined differential roles of family, school, media, and culture for substance-use prevention intervention. Her recent research extends to culturally diverse families and health, specifically investigating cultural adaptation processes among the first and second generation of immigrants, identifying protective and risk factors associated with acculturation and enculturation, testing acculturation status and health-information seeking behaviors, exploring layers of identity and identity gaps, and delving into communicative contexts of parentification (i.e., a role reversal between parent and child) and privacy management. 

Dr. Shin has published in top-tier communication and public health journals, including American Journal of Community Psychology, Communication Monographs, Health Communication, Health Education Research, Journal of Adolescence, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, and Prevention Science. She has also made presentations at regional, national, and international conferences in communication and public health, including the American Psychological Association, American Public Health Association, International Communication Association, National Communication Association, and Society for Prevention Research.

Dr. Shin has taught various undergraduate courses such as intercultural communication, interpersonal communication, family communication, and health communication, as well as graduate seminar courses including health and media, culture, and communication; and health, applied health communication, and quantitative research methods. 

Dr. Shin has been involved as co-investigator in several grant projects funded by the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute, Indiana State Department of Health, and US Department of State. She was recently selected as one of eleven participants in the US-Korea NextGen Scholars Program (2018-2019) sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and University of Southern California's Korean Studies Institute. 

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