Teaches Political Science and Global Studies at the National University of Singapore. She is the author of the books International Ethnic Networks and Intra-ethnic Conflict: Koreans in China, and Jia: A Novel of North Korea. Her new book, about transnational education corporations and education policy in Asia, will appear in 2019. She has also written on the politics of inequality in South Korea, as well as on problems of transnational air pollution. This paper draws on her ongoing research on responses in East Asia to the global food industry.