Dal Yong Jin finished his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and taught at Simon Fraser University in Canada for several
years. His major research and teaching interests are on media convergence and de-convergence, cultural
policies and industries, new media and game studies, globalization and media, and the political economy
of media and culture. He is the author of two books entitled Hands On/Hands Off: The Korean State
and the Market Liberalization of the Communication Industry (Hampton Press) and Korea's Online
Gaming Empire (MIT Press) and his recent work has appeared in several scholarly journals, including Media, Culture and Society, Games and Culture, Telecommunications Policy, Television and New
Media, Information Communication and Society and Javnost-the Public.