Eunseon Kim is Lecturer and Program Convenor for the Korean Language Program at the School of Culture, History and Language, in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. Her current research involves the historical construction of linguistic ideologies regarding Korean honorification. She explores public metalinguistic discourses over what linguistic politeness means to Koreans and how it should work in society.

Her research focuses on the intervention of different groups of people who ideologically discover and normalize semiotic values of Korean honorification. She is also interested in how socio-cultural conditions in history change the ways that people highlight or suppress certain aspects of language use.