She conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork among Korean educational migrants in Singapore between 2008 and 2011. Her recent publications include 'Going Global in Comfort: South Korean Education Exodus,' in South Korea's Education Exodus: The Life and Times of Study Abroad (Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, 2015), 'Global Citizens in the Making: Child-Centred Multimedia Ethnographic Research on South Korean Student Migrants in Singapore,' Ethnography 14(3) (2013), and '"Any One Parent Will Do": Negotiations of Fatherhood among South Korean "Wild Geese" Fathers in Singapore,' Journal of Korean Studies 17 (2) (2012).