Seulbin Han is a doctoral student in the department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University. Her research comparatively investigates Korea’s popular music industry across volatile historical periods, broadly focusing on three key transitions – from the colonial period to liberation (1930s-1940s), from liberation to the Korean War (1940s-1950s), and from wartime to postwar periods (1950s-1960s). She is the English translator of Brother Is a Street Musician: Viewing the Landscape of Modernity through Korean Popular Music (written by Zhang Eujeong, originally published in Korea in 2006), forthcoming via Rutgers University Press in August 2026.