| Degree : |
Ph.D in Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |
| Research Area : |
State and Development Theory, Political Economy of South Korea, Global Ageing, Critical Pedagogy and Living Lab |
- Nov. 2017 – June. 2018
Visiting Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK
- Jan. 2017 – Sept. 2017
Teaching Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK
- Oct. 2011 – June. 2012
- Jan. 2009 – May. 2010
- I am a Peer Reviewer for New Political Economy, Third World Quarterly, Antipode, Sociological Review,
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Contemporary Asia and Historical Materialism
- Nov.2020 – Aug. 2023
General-Secretary, ASEM Global Ageing Center, Seoul, South Korea
- Oct. 2012 – Dec. 2016
Senior Researcher, The Embassy of the Republic of Korea, London, UK
- Feb. 2002 – June 2003
English Editor, International Cooperation Division, Korea Customs Service, Daejeon, South Korea
(*Awarded Korea Customs Service Commissioner’s Prize)
Academic Publications
- 2020 Monograph: State, Class and Developmentalism in South Korea: Development as Fetish,
Routledge (Routledge Advances in Korean Studies) (paperback published in June 2021);
Chinese translation forthcoming with Jiangsu People’s Publishing House, Nanjing, China
Development and Change, vol. 50(6), pp. 1554-1578
Relations’, symposium on André Gunder Frank’s ReOrienting the 19th Century,
Journal of World-Systems Research, vol. 21(1), pp. 174–183
- 2013 ‘Marxist Critiques of the Developmental State and the Fetishism of National Development’,
Antipode, vol. 45(5), pp. 1254-1276
- 2013 ‘Democracy against Labour: The Dialectic of Democratisation and De-democratisation in Korea’,
Journal of Contemporary Asia, vol. 43 (2), pp. 338-362 (*Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2014 Winner)
New Political Economy, vol. 16 (3), pp. 281-302
- 2011 ‘The Korean Developmental State and Its Neo-Liberal Transition in the World System’,
in Patrick Manning and Barry Gills (eds.) André Gunder Frank and Global Development (Routledge), pp. 211-31
- 2010 ‘The Developmental State and Neo-Liberal Transition in South Korea’,
in Alfredo Saad-Filho and Galip Yalman (eds.) Economic Transitions to Neoliberalism in
Middle Income Countries: Policy Dilemmas, Crises, Mass Resistance (Routledge), pp. 141-53
Presentations (selected)
- ‘Global Social Challenges and Local Responses: International Cooperation in Higher Education through Living Labs’,
paper given at OpenLivingLabDays 2024, European Network of Living Labs, Timișoara, Romania, September 2024
- ‘Social Forms, Critical Pedagogy and the Question of the Subject’, paper given at Social Theory Centre,
University of Warwick, UK, May 2024
- ‘Elder Poverty and Inequality in the Developing Countries and International Development’,
KOICA (Korea International Cooperation Agency) Roundtable, The 13th World Conference of Gerontechnology,
Daegu, South Korea, October 2022
- ‘Open Marxism and the Question of National Development’, paper given at Institute for Social Science,
Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea, August 2019
- ‘The Global Social Origins of the Korean Developmental State’, paper given at Institute of Development Studies,
University of Sussex, UK, October 2014
- ‘A Cultural Critique of Confucian Capitalism from a Transnational and Intersectional Perspective:
The Dialectic of Universality and Specificity of ‘National Culture’,
paper given at Conference Intersectionality and the Spaces of Belonging,
School of Social Sciences, University of Bangor, UK, June 2012
- ‘Confronting the National before the Global: State-Centrism in IPE Theories’,
paper given at Conference Confronting the Global: Alternatives, Alterity, Solidarity,
Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, UK, September 2011
- ‘Democracy against Labour: Dialectic of Democratisation and De-democratisation in Contemporary Korea’,
paper given at IIPPE Conference on Neoliberalism and the Crises of Economic Science,
Istanbul University, Turkey, May 2011
- ‘Theorising the Korean Developmental State: A Critique of the Fetishism of National Development’,
paper given at Historical Materialism Conference, New School for Social Research, New York, US, May 2011
- ‘Demystifying Asian Development: Is There Good or Bad Capitalist Development?’,
paper given at Conference Still the Asian Century?, Department of Politics and International Studies,
University of Birmingham, UK, September 2008
- ‘The Korean Developmental State and Its Neo-Liberal Transition in the World System’,
paper given at Conference André Gunder Frank’s Legacy of Critical Social Science,
University of Pittsburgh, US, April 2008
- ‘The Korean Developmental State and Neo-Liberal Transition’,
paper given at Conference Transition to Neoliberalism in Middle Income Countries,
The Turkish Social Science Association, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, February 2008
Other Activities
- Blogger, ‘Talking about the Human Rights of Older Persons’ – Web-posting of Interview Summaries with
Specialists in Global Ageing and the Human Rights of Older Persons in English and Korean
(http://asemgac.org/bbs/bbs/?bbs_no=53)
- Editor, ‘A Comparative Study of ASEM Partners’ Penson Policy: UK, Italy, Slovenia, Korea, Vietnam and Thailand’,
ASEM Global Ageing Center (Jan. 2021 – Dec. 2021)