Irina (Ira) Lyan

I’m a sociologist interested in South Korea's economic and cultural miracles. I wrote my dissertation on Start-up Nation vs. the Republic of Samsung and published several papers on the fans and fandom of Korean popular culture in Israel. At present I’m working on the Samsung vs. Apple smartphone patent wars and their impact on the international reputation of South Korea as a nation of innovation.

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Photo: Bruno Charbit

NEWS & EVENTS

My paper titled "Start-up Nation” vs. “The Republic of Samsung”: Power and politics in the partner choice discourse in Israeli-Korean business collaboration" was published at Critical Perspectives on International Business

May  2021

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The video of my lecture at Freie University Berlin, ttitled "Fan Entrepreneurship - Fandom, Agency, and Marketing of Hallyu in Israel" was uploaded to the Institute of Korean Studies at FUBerlin's YouTube channel

April 2021

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My paper titled "Between two homelands: Diasporic nationalism and academic pilgrimage of the
Korean Christian Community in Jerusalem" was published at S/N Korean Humanities

May 2021