Dal Yong Jin is a distinguished professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He has published numerous books, including New Korean Wave: Transnational Cultural Power in the Age of Social Media (2016), Understanding the Business of Global Media in the Digital Age, with Micky Lee (2017), Artificial Intelligence in Cultural Production (2021), Understanding the Korean Wave (2023), Globalization and Media in the Digital Platform Age, 2nd edition (2025), and many more. He is also the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Digital Media and Globalization (2021) and the founding editor of the Routledge Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia series.