Dr. Sunghae Kim is an associate professor at Daegu University. Previously, he worked for the Korea Press Foundation as a senior research fellow. His PhD dissertation “Educating Public Opinion: Understanding U.S. dollar hegemony in the age of Global News Media” was approved by Pennsylvania State University in 2005. As a specialist in the areas of international political economy, financial journalism, and media diplomacy, he has published dozens of books and peer-reviewed research articles, including “Fallacy of group thinking or Distortion with intention: Case Study about China discourse mediated by Korean News media” (2016), "Crippled intellectuals and the retreat of nation: Price of intellectual hegemony penetrated by the U.S. educated Korean scholars" (2016), and "For whom the bell tolls: Understanding Korea’s intellectual dependency upon U.S. hegemony in term of ‘China Bashing’ discourse” (2016).