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Past colloquium

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…

By KIRN, 3 years3 years ago

Past colloquium

The Effects of COVID-19 on Women Workers in South Korea

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…

By KIRN, 5 years ago

Recent Studies

The Youth’s Precarious Life and Basic Income in South Korea

This study attempts to calculate the decent level of income for youth through examination of the ‘living expense’ level based on the current household expenditure and consumption expenditure of the youth, utilizing the 2014 raw data of ‘Household Income and Expenditure Survey’ by Statistics Korea. Based on our analysis, we Read more…

By KIRN, 6 years ago

Recent Studies

Why Are Short-Hours Part-Time Workers Increasing?

The Short-Hours Part-Time Jobs in Korea Moon, Ji-Sun and Young-Mi Kim. 2017. Korean Journal of Labor Studies 23(1): 129-164. This article is an exploratory study on the recent growth of short-hours part-time work in Korea. The short-hours part-time work has been rapidly growing among low-educated women over sixty, particularly among bereaved Read more…

By KIRN, 7 years7 years ago

Past colloquium

The Coming of Basic Income: New Paradigm of Distribution

Colloquium in Apr. 2018 Lee, Seung-yoon (Professor, Dept. of Social Welfare at Ewha Womans Univ.) The concept and background of ‘basic income’, along with the ways to implement it in reality were discussed. The basic income has been introduced as one of the alternative welfare systems to reflect today’s socioeconomic Read more…

By KIRN, 7 years7 years ago

Recent Studies

How did the trap of non-regular working emerge?

Bridge or Trap? Labor Market Structure and the Transitions from Contingent to Permanent Employment Korean Journal of Management. Jung Dong-Il, Kwon Seeon-Won (2016) With a burgeoning interest in understanding the nature of contingent work, scholars have begun to tackle such issues as workforce divide and emerging form of labor relations. Read more…

By KIRN, 8 years8 years ago