Jaekyom Shim is a PhD candidate in the Department of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. He had participated in the project, “Korea and East Asia in Global History, 1840-2000,” from 2011 to 2014, at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, FU Berlin, and is a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, as a beneficiary of Japanese Studies Overseas Fellowship of Japan Foundation. His main concern is history of postwar East Asia and transnational history of popular culture. His doctoral thesis, “Song for the Masses: Popular Music and Cold War Subjectivity in Postwar Japan and South Korea from a Global Perspective,” explores how discourse and movement of popular music in postwar Japan and postcolonial Korea reflected and contributed to the production of nationalist knowledge, modern subject of labor, and Cold War subjectivities from the perspective of global history.