Myung-Ae Choi is Research Assistant Professor at the Centre of Anthropocene Studies in Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Drawing on cultural geography and political ecology, her research explores the politics, cultures, and geographies of environmentalism in East Asian developmental states. Myung-Ae’s current research looks at the crane conservation in and around the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) through three interrelated themes of the Anthropocene—digital conservation, rewilding, and the East Asian Anthropocene. She has also looked at ecotourism and wildlife conservation in South Korea through the cases of whale and dolphin tourism, countryside walking, and Slow City tourism development. Myung-Ae received a DPhil in Geography and the Environment from University of Oxford, and taught environmental politics and governance at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Before pursuing an academic career, Myung-Ae was an environmental correspondence at Kyunghyang Daily News based in Seoul.