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…
Colloquium in Jan. 2018 Park, Hyunjoon (Professor, Department of Sociology at Univ. of Pennsylvania, U.S.) This research analyzes how family behaviors such as marriage, divorce, and child-rearing in South Korea have changed, and how the pattern of this change is different between the low and the high educated. According to Read more…
The Prospect and Meaning of Marriage among Unmarried Women in Korea: Heterogeneity across Educational Attainment Groups Lee, Jae Kyung & Bo Hwa Kim. 2015. Journal of Korean Women’s Studies 31(4): 41-85. This study examines the prospect and meaning of marriage among Korean unmarried women by focusing on educational differences. In-depth Read more…
Colloquium in Oct. 2017 Choi, Seongsoo (Professor, Department of Sociology at Sungkyunkwan Univ., South Korea) Based on the data from Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), this research analyzes the role of marriage in intergenerational economic mobility among the group born in the U.S. in 1950 to 1975. The research Read more…
Negotiating Work and Family Life in South Korea : Class Differences among Working Women Journal of Korean Women’s Studies. Lee Jae-Kyung, Lee Euna, and Cho Joo-Eun (2006) In this study, we tried to analyze the experiences and differences of the work and family life among married women workers and also Read more…