Soni Kum has been organizing thought-provoking projects since 2006 in collaboration with international artists, curators, and scholars. Notably, Kum conducted a series of art workshops with North Korean migrants in South Korea, as part of a residency funded by the Seoul Cultural Foundation. It was a grassroots art project, a project to hold workshops with people who risked their lives to cross the border and migrate from North Korea. 

Her current research theme, "Reconsidering 'Postwar': A Practical Study of Contemporary Art and East Asia," is an interdisciplinary collaboration between contemporary artists, critics, researchers, and curators practicing public history and working on redefining "postwar" in East Asia. While there is a movement to place art works as a context for historicizing and monumentalizing the "postwar" period and the concept of "peace," there is also an emerging movement to destabilize dominant narratives in art while confronting historical conflicts. The language structure of post-modern contemporary art has become fluid, and radical contemporary artworks and ideas can be game changers and shift the flow of culture. By reconsidering the correlation between "postwar" East Asia and contemporary art, rather than interrupting the flow of history with the term "postwar," one can bring to the surface the missing fragments in the official and unofficial narratives and jointly create new currents free from self-censorship.