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. At present I’m working on the book project "ImagiNation of Korea in the post-miracle era."

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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

I gave an interview to Study International revealing all secrets on graduating in Israel, my academic and diasporic roots & routes 
 
June  2021

I'm honored to receive the Israeli Science Foundation grant for the research proposal "In the name of innovation: Legitimacy, espionage and nation branding in the Apple v. Samsung “smartphone patent wars” 
 
July 2021

My paper titled " “Koreans are the Israelis of the East”: A postcolonial reading of cultural similarities in cross-cultural management" was published at Culture and Organization
 
July 2021

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