Michael Robinson is a consultant, teacher and trainer who focuses on the Korean culture and helping Americans who are seeking to increase the effectiveness of their activities in Korea. He speaks Korean, having lived there for six years and having visited the country on a semi-yearly basis for the past 25 years.
His Consulting Activities include "Marketing in the Korean Community" a Marketing Research Report for Security Pacific National Bank; Coordination and Design of Bi-lingual Brochures on Customer Services and Small Business Services also for Security Pacific; Expert Witness Testimony; Cultural Advisor to the Director, Korean Cultural Service, Ministry of Culture and Information, Los Angeles Branch; Faculty, Ford Executive Development Center, and Program on Korean Business Associations.
Dr. Robinson has also been a Consulting Planner for IBEAR, at the University of Southern California's School of Business Administration, Summer Institute on Business in East Asia; and continues to be a popular speaker on "Doing Business in Korea" at USC's Asia Pacific Business Conference and their other management programs.
Dr. Robinson's background includes extensive study of Korea from many perspectives. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Washington with a concentration on East Asia History and a specialization in modern Korean history. He has received grants from the Korea Foundation, the Association of Asian Studies, the Committee for Korean Studies and a Fulbright Research Fellowship. Currently at Indiana University, he is past Chair of the Korean Studies Committee at the East Asia Studies Center of the University of Southern California.
His publications include Korea Old and New: A History (Harvard University Press) and Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Korea (University of Washington Press). His articles include Modern Korea, Central Themes in Korean History, and Mass Media and Popular Culture in Korea. He has spoken on Developing the Korean Studies Field at the First International Conference on Korean Studies in the Americas; on Korean Popular Culture at the Asia Society of New York and the Center of Korean Studies at UCLA; and on the Origins of Korean Popular Culture at the Asia Society of New York.
