Yoehan Oh

Tech oligarchy meets developmental state: translating developmentalist and regulatory imaginaries to platform capitalism in South Korea Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)

50 free eprints available: grab one while they last!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GD9NQ...

I'd love to hear your thoughts, especially from folks working on STS, or platform governance, East Asian political economy.

My article is part of Science as Culture's Forum on Tech Oligarchy edited by Kean Birch (keanbirch.bsky.social) and Les Levidow. The Forum as a collective explores how tech oligarchy reshapes technology and politics.

How has Korea's tech oligarchy — led by Naver, the country's dominant search & platform conglomerate — been publicly contested?

I trace how developmentalist and regulatory imaginaries, originally shaped around chaebol giants like Samsung, are now being translated to govern platform capitalism.

Tech oligarchy meets developmental state: translating developmentalist and regulatory imaginaries to platform capitalism in South Korea Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)

New pub alert! My article is out in Science as Culture sciasculture.bsky.social!

'Tech oligarchy meets developmental state: translating developmentalist and regulatory imaginaries to platform capitalism in South Korea'

Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎤 We're honored to have Zachary Riebeling (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) as our session chair and Clare Kim (University of Illinois Chicago) as our commentator! 🙌

Looking forward to seeing colleagues and friends interested in Asian American history of science in our session! 🔍📚👥

Lastly, Christine Noelle Peralta (Amherst College) gives her talk on "Racial Management Through Reproductive Health, from the American South to the Global South." 🌍🩺

Thirdly, Eun-Joo Ahn (Yale University) gives her presentation on "Marginalized “Majority”: The Case of Korean American Scientists After the Second World War." 🔬🇰🇷

Then, Yoehan Oh at Yale University (that's me! 🙋‍♂️) presents "White and Asian Settlers in Transition Across the Pacific: Unpacking ALOHAnet to Find the Interwoven Histories of Race, Empire, and Electrical Engineering in Hawai'i." 🌐🔌

Check it out at tomorrow morning 10:30 AM (CT), Sat, Jan. 10th, 2026, at Hancock Parlor (Palmer House Hilton, Sixth Floor)!

Firstly, Jeannie Shinozuka (Washington State U.) will discuss “Racial Differences in Intelligence”: Japanese Americans and Intelligence Testing in the Early 20th Century." 🎓📊

🎉 Are you in AHA 2026 American Historical Association @historians.org or hanging around Chicago, IL? 🏙️

My colleagues and I will give a presentation tomorrow in a panel titled "Asian American Racial Formations and the Production of Scientific Knowledge in the Pacific and the American West, 1900–77"!

Re-remembering Benjamin Whisoh Lee, promoter of gauge theories The Korean American physicist made the framework underlying the standard model accessible to a generation of particle physicists.

Great #physics and #history article (by my former student, Eun-Joo Ahn) on Ben W. Lee, the Korean-American physicist who made the framework underlying the standard model accessible to a generation of particle physicists.

pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

#HistSTM
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In this issue:

-Articles on infrastructure & astronomy (Eun-Joo Ahn) & ocean drilling (Beatriz Martinez-Rius)

-@mbaldwin.bsky.social's review of books by @patrickmccray.bsky.social, @ccmmody.bsky.social & Mark Solovey

-James Hofmann's essay on the current state of Ampère historiography #histSTM

🚨 𝐂𝐅𝐏 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭: 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫 & 𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐚𝐭 𝐘𝐚𝐥𝐞

Theme: Workers Building, Using, and Resisting AI
📅 Date: April 29, 2026
📍 Loc: Yale University (In-person)
💰 Funding: Scholarships available for grad students & organizers!

𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: Jan 18, 2026 Submit here: indl-na.sciencesconf.org

Check out both sessions:
🔹 Software as Instrument 1 (8:30 am – 10:20 am) → www.xcdsystem.com/4sonline/pro...
🔹 Software as Instrument 2 (10:40 am – 12:30 pm) → www.xcdsystem.com/4sonline/pro...

@4sweb.bsky.social

In the two-part panel "Software as Instrument," co-organized by Will Sutherland (UW) + Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social (Stanford, 2025 J.D. Bernal Prize co-winner!).

🚨 Excited to share I’ll present tomorrow at #4S2025 #4SSeattle25!

🗓 Fri, Sep. 5
⏰ 10:40 am – 12:30 pm (PT)
📍 Seattle, WA, USA (Sheraton, Union St. Tower – Jefferson B, 4th floor)
📊 The API-Free Design for Auto Instrumentation: When Interface-Free Software is Perceived Unfaithful (or un-face-full)

I contributed this through the Public Voices Fellowship, hosted by the Yale Women Faculty Forum in partnership with The OpEd Project. A big thank you to Jennifer L. Mueller for her invaluable support!

Amid ICE Raids, Immigrants Shouldn't Look to Rooftop Koreans in LA, but Chinese Contractors in NY | The Opinion Pages Shortly before the June 5 I.C.E. raids in the Los Angeles Fashion District and arrest of 45 workers, President Donald J. Trump explained that when he speaks about his goals to move more manufacturing ...

Excited to share my Op-Ed on The Opinion Pages: "Amid ICE Raids, Immigrants Shouldn’t Look to Rooftop Koreans in LA, but Chinese Contractors in NY." theopinionpages.com/2025/07/amid...

There are so much to unpack this Korean American theoretical physicist's life and work in colonial/liberated Korea and the U.S.!

Re-remembering Benjamin Whisoh Lee, promoter of gauge theories The Korean American physicist made the framework underlying the standard model accessible to a generation of particle physicists.

My colleague, Dr. Eun-Joo Ahn, lecturer and Presidential Visiting Fellow at Yale, publishes an article on _Physics Today_: "Re-remembering Benjamin Whisoh Lee [1935-1977], promoter of gauge theories"! Please check out at: pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

Yue Zhao (also our panel organizer) and Richard Lewei Huang will give their presentations on "Sciences and Technologies of Human Potentiality in China, 1979-2000" and "Comparison of Long-Term Availability of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English Web Pages from the Late 1990s and Early 2000s"!

I'll give a presentation of my research on fusing Asian history and Asian American history of microcomputers, trans-Pacific labor-management relationship, nationality, naturalized citizenship, and comprador capitalism.

If you are attending #AAS2025 #ColumbusOH and interested in East Asian Perspectives on the History of Information Technologies (@asianstudies.org), come tonight at 6 PM our panel at Room A122 (Level 1, Convention Center).
asianstudies.confex.com/asianstudies...

The Life and Legacy of Bui Tuong Phong | ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Talks

For those who can't make it in person, you can get our 2-pager via ACM Digital Library! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Presentation | SIGGRAPH 2024 The Premier Conference & Exhibition on Computer Graphics & Interactive Techniques. 51 years of SIGGRAPH and join us in Denver or online starting 28 July.

Please join us the "Past Histories and Possible Futures" session at Four Seasons 4 (Ballroom level, or the basement level) starting at 2PM (MDT)! s2024.conference-program.org/presentation...

We are greatly honored to have his wife and daughter at the presentation at Denver Convention Center. We also look forward to hearing inputs and recollections from those who worked with him.

Our findings place his transnational relocations and life trajectories within a global contexts.

He is one of the few, if not the only, Asian contributors during the formative era of the computer graphics. Despite coworkers' continued efforts to honor his memory following his early death, public knowledge of his life remains limited, leaving us with a low-resolution impression of who he was.

Professor Theodore Kim, Dr. Jacinda S. Tran, and I are presenting “The Life and Legacy of Bui Tuong Phong” at ACM #SIGGRAPH2024 today! He (1942-1975) was the inventor of the influential Phong Reflection and Shading Models.