Chul Namgung

Biography

Chul Namgung is a Ph.D. Candidate in the History Department at UCLA. His research examines post-imperial racial relations between Japan and its former colonial subjects, mostly Koreans and Taiwanese and often referred to with the prefix Zainichi. He is also interested in Japanese activism’s understanding of the precarity of Zainichi life in postwar (post-World WarII) Japan.