Colloquium in Dec. 2020 Yun, Jiyoung (Attorney at Law, GongGam Human Rights Law Foundation) This presentation is on how women workers’ working conditions in South Korea have been changed by COVID-19, based on presenter’s counseling experiences with Korean women employees this year. With her counseling cases in which many Korean Read more…
Colloquium in Sept. 2020 Kye, Bongoh (Professor, Department of Sociology at Kookmin Univ.), Young-Mi Kim (Professor, Department of Sociology at Yonsei Univ.), and Jihye Lee (National Health Insurance Service) Using the National Health Insurance micro-data from 2002 to 2018, this study analyzes whether there is any relationship between fertility and Read more…
Colloquium in Aug. 2020 Kim, ChangHwan (Professor, Department of Sociology at Univ. of Kansas) and Kim, Andrew Taeho (PhD Student, Department of Sociology at Univ. of Kansas) Using the Household Income and Expenditure data from 1999 through 2019, this study verified debate on whether between-age-group income inequality was motivating income Read more…
Colloquium in May 2020 Lee, Min-Ah (Professor, Department of Sociology at Chung-Ang University) This study analyzes how subjective well-being is associated with gender and fear of crime in South Korea, with multi-variate regression analysis of 2016 Korean General Social Survey data. According to the analysis, Koreans’ subjective well-being is negatively Read more…
Colloquium in April 2020 Shin, Jin-Wook (Professor, Department of Sociology at Chung-Ang University) Recently the extractive and redistributive state capacity has been given greater attention as expected to alleviate class inequalities, which become critical problems in many industrialized societies. This study analyzes how the extractive and redistributive state capacity in Read more…
Joo, Ikhyun and Seongsoo Choi. 2019. “When a Man ‘Helps’ a Woman: The Importance of Time Overlap in the Division of Housework within Married Couples.” Korean Journal of Sociology 53(2):213-51. Existing research has documented that husband’s additional housework does not reduce wife’s housework and even may increase it. In this study, we Read more…
Kim, Ee Sun and Keong Suk Park. 2019. “Life Course of Korean Women: Conflictual Gender Differentiation and Enforced Classification.” ECONOMY AND SOCIETY 122: 138-170. Korean women’s aspirations and practices for gender equality have been increasingly prevalent. However, the foundation of life is growing fragmented according to economic stratification, and family Read more…
Kim, Soo-ah and Sae-Eun Kim. 2016. “‘Dys-like-phoria’: Representation and Re-characterisation of ‘Misogyny’ through Facebook.” Media, Gender & Culture 31(2): 5-44. Contemporary Korean society has witnessed the rise and prevalence of Facebook pages that set forth their core identity as ‘misogyny’. Within this societal context, this study analyses the contents and Read more…
Colloquium in Jan. 2020 Shin, Kwang-Yeong (Professor, Department of Sociology at Chung-Ang University) Professor Shin discussed the limitations of sociological research on class inequality in South Korea, in the midst of such changes as globalization, technological advances, low-fertility, aging, and a rise of single households. Especially he pointed out that Read more…
Most Korean research on gender divisions of housework focuses on married couples. This article extends this literature to examine gender differences in housework across living arrangements and marital status, with particular focus on during transition into adulthood. This study examines the amount and composition of domestic work performed by those Read more…