Choe Sang-Hun is the Seoul bureau chief for The New York Times, focusing on news on North and South Korea.

He worked for The Associated Press for 11 years before joining The Times in 2005. He is a co-author of two books on Korea and co-editor of another two, also on Korea. He was a 2010-11 fellow in Korean studies at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center of Stanford University. He has won journalism awards for his reports on Korea and Myanmar, including a 2000 Pulitzer Prize​

옥천신문 편집국장​
 

SISWAEEK​

General Manager of Journalism Accountbility Department & Editorial Writer

           Project Deputy Director of newsroom(2020~21)​​

Professor, Hanshin University​

Academic Career

President of Korea E-Sports Association (2012~2013)​

CEO, Impactsquare​

Dr. Sophia Seung-yoon Lee obtained her Ph.D. in Social Policy from Oxford University in the UK with her thesis on a comparative study between East Asian welfare states and non-regular workers. She is an associate professor of social policy at Chung-Ang university, Seoul, South Korea. Her major research fields are East Asian welfare states and labor markets, precarious worker, institutionalism and comparative research methodology. He published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and books(co-authored) including “Female outsiders in South Korea’s dual labour market: Challenges of equal pay for work of equal value (2020)”, “Institutional Legacy of State Corporatism in De-industrial Labor Markets (2016)”, “Korean Precarious Workers” (Co-authored Book, 2017) etc. She was also the first Vice-Chairperson of the Youth Policy Coordination Committee in the Prime Minister’s Office.

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Professor, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology(GIST)​

Young Jun Choi is a Professor at the Department of Public Administration, and Director of the Institute for Welfare State Research, Yonsei University in South Korea. He also serves as the Chair of East Asian Social Policy Research Network (2021-2023). His research interests include ageing and public policy, social investment policy, innovation and social policy, and East Asian welfare states. He was co-editor of Welfare Reform and Social Investment Policy in Europe and East Asia (Policy Press, 2021). He has extensively published his studies in international journals including the Journal of European Social Policy, Policy and Society, Policy and Politics, Ageing and Society, the International Journal of Social Welfare, and Risk Analysis.​​

Jin-Yeong Kim

Declining Saving Rate: Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Evidence (with Jongkyu Park), Korea Institute of Public Finance, December 2000​

Member, The National Assembly of Republic of Korea​​

Director, The Hankyoreh Media Group​

Research Fellow, Korean Institute of Public Administration​

Professor, Dankook University​