Jin-Wook Shin is Professor of Sociology at Chung-Ang University in South Korea.
He studied sociology at Yonsei University and received his PhD in Sociology at Free University Berlin in Germany.
 
He was a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and a visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Graz in Austria. He served as vice-president of the Korean Association of Social Policy, vice-president of the Korean-German Association of Social Sciences, and director of the DAAD-Centre for German and European Studies (ZeDES) in South Korea.
 
He has published books and articles on democracy, civil society, social movements, and social inequalities in Korean, English, and German. ​​