Premarital Pregnancy in South Korea: Socioeconomic Disparities and Children’s Early Developmental Trajectories

Colloquium in November 2024 Won-tae Koh (CLIO Institute for Social Development Studies, Yonsei University) This study explores the possibility that the recent increase in premarital pregnancies may reflect differential demographic behaviors across social strata and examines whether this serves as a pathway for intergenerational inequality reproduction. Analysis using The Panel Read more…

Explaining Gender Gap in Political Ideology: Differential Effect of Gender, Feminism and Sexism across Generations in South Korea

Colloquium in July 2023 Ho Youn Koh (Professor, Dept. of Political Science and Int’l Relations, Nazarbayev Univ., Kazakhstan) Since the #MeToo movement and gender-related events in 2018, feminism and generational conflicts have been utilized for political mobilization, making gender and generation an important topic to understand the current politics in Read more…

Is the Gender Gap in Political Attitudes Changing? An Analysis of Authoritarian Attitudes Using Survey Data Collected from South Korea in 2021 and 2022

Colloquium in Sept. 2022 Chang, Han Il (Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations at Kookmin Univ., South Korea) Using survey data collected in 2021 and 2022, this study analyzes gender differences in authoritarian attitudes between the young (born after 1980) and the middle-aged (born in the year between Read more…

Has Inequality of Educational Opportunity Increased in Korea? (II): Trends of Family Background Gaps in Academic Achievement across Birth Cohorts

Colloquium in June 2021 Choi, Seongsoo (Professor, Dept. of Sociology at Yonsei Univ.) and Youngshin Lim (PhD Student, Dept. of Education at Seoul National Univ.) How have family background gaps in primary and secondary school students’ academic achievement changed in Korea? To answer the question, based on the total 11 Read more…