Eun Kyung Kim is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of African Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) in Korea. She is also serving as a Research Committee Director of the Korean Association of African Studies (KAAS) and an associate editor for the Asian Journal of African Studies (AJAS). Before she joined HUFS, she earned her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2016 and taught at Ventura College in Ventura, CA. Her research and teaching interests include African politics, political economy, and democratic consolidation within the subfields of comparative politics and international relations. Her current works chiefly focus on party competition and policy choice in African democracies where economic cleavages in electoral competition become more important. She has conducted field research in Zambia, Ghana, and Kenya, and traveled around cities and villages in some other African countries for various reasons.