In August 2020, UC San Diego history professor Todd Henry decided to combine his interests in Korean urban history (reflected in his first book, Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea 1910-1945) and Korea’s queer history (the topic of a collection he edited titled Queer Korea, and his forthcoming book, Profits of Queerness: Media, Medicine, and Citizenship in Hetero-Authoritarian South Korea, 1950-1980 ) by, as he put it, “exploring the unknown history of queer life around Euljiro.”
In August 2020, UC San Diego history professor Todd Henry decided to combine his interests in Korean urban history (reflected in his first book, Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea 1910-1945) and Korea’s queer history (the topic of a collection he edited titled Queer Korea, and his forthcoming book, Profits of Queerness: Media, Medicine, and Citizenship in Hetero-Authoritarian South Korea, 1950-1980 ) by, as he put it, “exploring the unknown history of queer life around Euljiro.”