Chan Yong Bu’s research focuses on the entanglements of the body, science, and technology within media culture as crucial sites for human-nonhuman relations. In particular, Chan Yong works on industrial media in South and North Korea, media spectacles in the form of science-themed megaevents in East Asia, and contemporary Korean media depictions of industrial ruins and waste. His current book project casts light on the steel manufacturing industry’s place in South and North Korea’s media culture from the 1950s to the present, crossing the boundaries of Cold War ideologies as well as of industrialist and post-industrialist societies. He received his A.B. in Korean Language and Literature (2016, summa cum laude) at Yonsei University and Ph.D. in East Asian Studies (2022) at Princeton University.