Mi Yung Park
Dr Mi Yung Park is Major/Specialization Leader (Chair) in Asian Studies and Senior Lecturer (equivalent to US Associate Professor) in Korean Studies at the University of Auckland/Waipapa Taumata Rau, New Zealand.
Mi Yung is an interdisciplinary scholar in sociolinguistics, migration, and diasporic studies, and a qualitative methodologist. She has researched language, migration, and identity, with a focus on the language maintenance of East Asian languages, and linguistic discrimination, in both Asian and diasporic contexts.
While her academic background is in Korean linguistics, Mi Yung’s wider research foci have since broadened to encompass, among others: language and identity; heritage language maintenance & family language policy, and; linguistic discrimination. She has explored these broad themes in relation to both South Korea and Korean diasporic communities worldwide.
Her work on language and identity has focused on the voices of marriage-migrant women, study abroad students, and elite bilingual returnees, in both Korean and diasporic contexts.
Her research on heritage language maintenance examines the experiences of mixed-heritage children in South Korea and New Zealand, as well as 1.5- and 2nd-generation Koreans in Australia, New Zealand, and the US.
Most recently, her linguistic discrimination research has examined the experiences of Southeast Asian marriage-migrant women and North Korean refugees in South Korea, while her current work explores .
