Inequality | Korea Inequality Research Network

Past colloquium

School Mobility and Academic Achievement in Standardized Education Systems: Evidence from South Korean Elementary Students

Colloquium in May 2025 Soo-yong Byun (The Pennsylvania State University, Professor of Education, Demography, and Asian Studies) Changing schools is a common experience for American students, but it often has negative consequences for academic performance. However, relatively little is known about school mobility and its effects in non-Western contexts. In Read more…

By KIRN, 3 weeks ago

Past colloquium

Varieties of Meritocratic Beliefs and Their Divergent Connections to Inequality Attitudes

Colloquium in January 2025 Dongkyun Im (Seoul National University, Department of Sociology) A wide range of studies and arguments suggested that meritocracy reinforces or justifies inequality, thereby solidifying a winner-takes-all system. In addition, criticisms have been raised that the rise of meritocracy leads individuals to obsess over a narrow definition Read more…

By KIRN, 4 months4 months ago

Past colloquium

Inequality Ideology : How it becomes the ruling ideology in capitalist Korea?

Colloquium in early September 2024 Don Moon Cho (Chairman of Korea Contingent Workers’ Center, South Korea) Piketty explains that in capitalist societies, the return on assets is always higher than the growth rate of national income, leading to an inevitable trend of increasing inequality. In most capitalist societies, generally the Read more…

By KIRN, 9 months ago

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Discrimination and the Social Structures of Emotion

Colloquium in August 2023 Joohee Lee (Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Ewha Womans Univ., South Korea) While a significant amount of research has been undertaken regarding discrimination, there has been limited understanding of its impact on those being discriminated against. A prominent characteristic of discrimination in Korea is the devaluation of Read more…

By KIRN, 2 years ago