Colloquium in Jan. 2022 Lee, Sang-Jic (Researcher, National Assembly Futures Institute, South Korea) This study investigates structural changes in transition to adulthood between the year 1998 and 2017, during which Korean society went through changes in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis. The study’s research question is how and Read more…
Colloquium in Apr. 2021 Jung, Gowoon (Professor, Department of Sociology at Kyung Hee Univ.) This study analyzes how young women construct their feminist identity in relation to participation in the ‘corset-free movement’ in South Korea, based on its online in-depth interviews with 40 women students in their early 20s, mostly Read more…
Choo, Jihyun. 2019. “Law Enforcement as the Result of Gendered Organization: The Effect of ‘Women as Victims’ and Police Gender Segregation.” Gender and Culture 12(2): 75-110. The denunciation of the “biased investigation” into illegal filming has led to calls for a greater proportion of women in law enforcement organizations. However, Read more…
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 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…
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…
Colloquium in Mar. 2019 Park, Hyunjoon (Professor, Dept. of Sociology at Univ. of Pennsylvania, U.S.) Based on the data from 1990 and 2010 Korean Census, this study analyzes how the decline in marriage rates during the recent 20 years in Korea is associated with the convergence in women and men’s Read more…
Seniority Based Pay System and the Relational Basis of Workplace Inequality Kwon, Hyunji and Ham, Sunyu. 2017. Korean Journal of Labor Studies 23(2): 1-45. This study aims at explaining organizational mechanisms of inequality that has been rising rapidly alongside the proliferation of irregular employment in the post-crisis Korean labor market. It argues that inequality is Read more…
Gender Inequality in the Labor Market after the Financial Crisis: Focused on the Gender Differences in Work Career and Wage Lee, Soon-Mi. 2015. Journal of Korean Women’s Studies 31(2): 91-129. To analyze whether the low quality of women’s employment is due to the effect of the life event, interruption or deepening gender inequality Read more…
Colloquium in Aug. 2018 Kim, Yujin (Professor, Dept. of Sociology at Kangwon National Univ.) This study analyzes whether and how cognitive aging patterns vary across cohorts in Korea, especially with a focus on their gender differences. The analysis is based on a 5,270 sample from Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging data which biannually surveyed Koreans aged 45 or Read more…