Mi-Kyung Yeom served as a Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development (ICSEAD) in Japan and as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center of Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh, United States.

Since 2003, she has been a Professor at Jeju National University. Her primary research focuses on local communities and people in both domestic and international contexts. She has conducted extensive research on oral history concerning historical experiences and memory, as well as on migration studies.

<Selected Publications>
- Steel Cities in Japan: Growth Politics and the Transformation of Urban Regimes (2001)
- War and the People: A Study of the Korean War from Below (2003)
- War and Memory: Life Histories of Village Communities (2005)
- Marriage Migrant Women in Jeju Society: Choices, Dilemmas, and Adaptation (2008)
- Low Fertility, Population Aging, and Social Inequality in Korea (2011)
- Jeju Onggi and Its People: A Local History of Disappearance and Reproduction (2012)
- Multicultural Society, Migration, and Transnationalism (2012)
- A Study on the Restoration, Transmission, and Heritagization Process of Traditional Jeju Onggi (2015)