Youngeun Koo

Youngeun Koo is Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University.

Her research focuses broadly on the politics of care and international humanitarianism, with publications on transnational adoption, Cold War geopolitics, and social policy in Korea. She holds a PhD from the University of Tübingen. Before joining Lund, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Irvine and Harvard University.