2023 Conference
International Conference on Sociology of Korea (I-CSK)
The James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) is pleased to host the 2nd International Conference on Sociology of Korea (I-CSK), October 13 – 14, 2023 on the Penn campus.
WELCOME
The James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) is pleased to host the 2nd International Conference on Sociology of Korea (I-CSK), October 13 – 14, 2023 on the Penn campus. The conference will provide a venue for scholars across the globe to come together to share their on-going projects on Korea/Koreans and Korean diaspora and develop academic networks. For this conference, the program committee is soliciting papers that address various aspects of Korea/Koreans including family, health & population, gender & sexualities, (im)migration, race & ethnicity, stratification & inequality, and political sociology / economic sociology. The committee also welcomes papers that examine other important issues of Korea/Koreans.
- Family, Health & Population (organizer: Jaein Lee & Sojung Lim)
- Gender & Sexualities (organizer: Hyeyoung Woo)
- (Im)migration, Race & Ethnicity (organizer: Minjeong Kim)
- Stratification & Inequality (organizer: ChangHwan Kim)
- Political Sociology / Economic Sociology (organizer: Su Yeone Jeon)
- Other topics (organizer: Jung In)
Scholars across the world, especially junior scholars and graduate students, are strongly encouraged to submit either a full-length paper (up to 10,000 words including text, notes, and references) or an extended abstract (up to 4 single-space pages with references, excluding tables and figures) to be considered for presentation at the conference. The full-length paper or extended abstract submission can be made here and is due by 11:00 pm US Eastern Daylight Time, July 14. A short abstract (up to 200 words) is also required for all submissions. In the submission site, you can indicate a session for which your paper should be considered.
Please feel free to ask any questions about the conference by emailing to the conference organizers (ICSKatPenn@gmail.com).
PROGRAM
2nd International Conference on Sociology of Korea (I-CSK) Program
October 12 (Thursday): 6 – 8 pm Conference Reception (Kim Center for Korean Studies, #310, 3600 Market Street)
October 13 (Friday): Kim Center for Korean Studies, #310, 3600 Market Street
8:00 – 8:50: Breakfast
8:50 – 9:00: Welcome & Introduction
9:00 – 10:40: Family (Moderator: Jaein Lee)
Katelyn Kim (U. of Pennsylvania), “Fertility Choices of Female Marriage Migrants in South Korea: Associations with Gender Role Attitudes
Soo-Yeon Yoon (Sonoma State U.) & Hyunjoon Park (U. of Pennsylvania), “Gender-Role Attitudes and Marriage Desires among Unmarried Adults in South Korea”
Seongsoo Choi (Yonsei U.), Jung In (U. of Copenhagen), & Haeseul Yu (Yonsei U.), “Higher Education and Family Formation among Young Adults in South Korea: Do What College You Go to and What Major You Take Shape Your Family in 15 Years?”
So-Jung Lim (Utah State U.), “Nonstandard Employment and Marital Instability in South Korea”
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12: 40 Gender & Sexualities (Moderator: Minjeong Kim)
Suyeon Jang (U. of California, Irvine), “Sacrificed at the Altar No More: Women and the Rise of Marriage Avoidance in South Korea”
Yujin Kim (Kangwon National U.), Hyeyoung Woo (Portland State U.), & Hyunjoon Park (U. of Pennsylvania), “The Meaning and Process of Cohabitation in South Korea”
Meera Choi (Yale U.), “Unlearning Gendered Dating through the Lens of Violence? A Study on South Korean Women Refusing Heterosexual Love”
Hyeyoung Woo (Portland State U.) & Jieha Lee (Soongsil U.), “Sexual Minority Women in Contemporary Korea”
12:40 – 13:40 Lunch
13:40 – 15:20 (Im)migration, Race & Ethnicity (Moderator: Hyeyoung Woo)
Hong Jin Jo (Chicago U.), “”Men’s Circle”: Education-Mediated Capital Conversion and Its Inconvertibility in Elite International Student Mobility”
Minjeong Kim (San Diego State U.) & Ilju Kim (Utsunomiya U.), “The Second Generation’s Perception of Public Support Programs for Multicultural Families”
Dasom Lee (U. of California, San Diego), “Learning to Become a Migrant: Migrant Training for Vietnamese Migrant Workers and Marriage Migrants to South Korea”
Jinwon Kim (City Tech, CUNY), “Blackface in Korean Bodies: Black Characters and Legacies of Blackface in the Korean Entertainment Industry and Media”
15:20 – 15:40 Coffee Break
15:40 – 16:55 Other Topics (Moderator: Jung In)
Rochelle Leonor (U. of the Philippines), “Framing the Memory of a War: A Comparative Analysis of Korean War Memorials in South Korea and the Philippines”
Su Yeon Jeon (U. of Pennsylvania), “Latecomer Firms in the Global Regulatory Chain”
Yeonjoo Kim (U. of British Columbia), “Voluntary Quitting in South Korea: A Complex Interplay of Learning, Work, and Life for Korean Millennials”
18:00 – Conference Dinner
October 14 (Saturday): Kim Center for Korean Studies (#310, 3600 Market Street)
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 – 10:40 Stratification & Inequality (Moderator: So-Jung Lim)
Chaeyoon Lim (U. of Wisconsin-Madison), Yoonyoung Na (Seoul National U.) & Hyeona Park (Seoul National U.), “Rich Friends, Poor Friends: Education and Class Homophily in Close Non-kin Networks in Korea”
Heeyoun Shin (U. of Kansas) & ChangHwan Kim (U. of Kansas), “How Do Children of Self-locate Themselves in Social Hierarchy? Educational Homogamy, Sustaining Male-Breadwinner Norms, and Children’s Subjective Social Status”
Haeseul Yu (Yonsei U.) & Seongsoo Choi (Yonsei U.), “Long-Term Effect of High School Vocational Education: The Labor Market Status of the Graduates in their Early 30s”
Andrew Taeho Kim (U. of Pennsylvania), Hyunjoon Park (U. of Pennsylvania), Meir Yaish (U. of Haifa), & Inkwan Chung (Soongsil U.), “Intergenerational Educational Mobility and Life-Course Income Trajectory in Korea”
10:40 -11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:40 Political/Economic Sociology (Moderator: Su Yeon Jeon)
Ji-Eun Ahn (U. of Edinburgh), “From Battles to Buggies: Change in the Culture of Protests and the Routinisation of Candlelight Vigil in South Korea”
Hyunsik Chun (U. of Iowa), “The Dynamics of Grand Corruption and Anti-Corruption Campaigns: Isolated Investigation, Partisan Polarization, and Social Movements”
Lana Hye-Joe Park (U. of Virginia), “Meaning-Constitutive Interests: Making Sense of Suffering after the 4.16 Sewol Ferry Tragedy”
Hyangseon Ahn (U. of California, San Diego), “From Law to Movement: Fostering Victim Identity through Legal Mobilization”
12:40 – 13:40 Lunch
13:40 – 15:20 Health, Perceptions, and Attitudes (Moderator: ChangHwan Kim)
Jae-mahan Shim (Korea U.), “Bothering to Give: Experiences of Blood Plasma Donation among COVID19 Survivors in Korea”
Gayoung Choi (Sungkyunkwan U.), Haena Lee (Sungkyunkwan U.) & Jong Hyun Jung (Sungkyunkwan U.) “Is Bridge Employment Good for Health? A Longitudinal Analysis”
Jaein Lee (Arkansas State U.) & Zhiyong Lin (U. of Texas, San Antonio), “Religion, Religiosity and Acceptance toward Suicide in South Korea”
Harris Hyun-Soo Kim (Ewha Womans U.), “Barbarians at the Gate? Immigrant Threat, Immigrant Contribution, and Outgroup Sentiments in South Korea”
15:20 – 15:40 Coffee Break
15:40 – 16:40 Plenary Session
James Raymo (Princeton U.), “Ultra-low Fertility in Korea and Comparison with Japan”
18:00 – Conference Dinner
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jung In is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen. She completed her DPhil in Sociology at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford in 2021 and she recently joined the ESR-funded SIBMOB project led by Kristian Bernt Karlson to conduct a large-scale comparative study to review the class mobility of siblings. Her research interests include social mobility, educational inequality, gender and family dynamics, demography, and geographic and historical mobility. In her previous work, she has analysed the role of higher education and geographic mobility in social mobility. She is the recipient of the Clarendon Scholarship and the ESRC Studentship from the University of Oxford, and the Kerckhoff Award from the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Stratification and Mobility (RC28). Her work appears in Sociology of Education and the British Journal of Sociology. Her current projects focus on (1) social and geographical mobility, (2) historical census records linking methods and social mobility in the 19th century, and (3) family background and demographic outcomes of siblings.
ChangHwan Kim, Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas
ChangHwan Kim is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas and Chair of the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section of American Sociological Association. He is specialized in the areas of stratification, labor markets, education, Asian American studies, Korea studies, and quantitative methodology. The common concern of his research is to contribute to the generation of the critical knowledge and information that will ultimately help policy makers to understand and eventually ameliorate the undesirable sources of increasing socioeconomic polarization in our society. Methodologically, he is interested in panel models and diverse statistical decomposition techniques. His work appears, among others, in American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Sociology of Education, Sociological Methods & Research, Demography, and Korean Journal of Sociology.
Minjeong Kim, Professor of Sociology, San Diego State University
Minjeong Kim is professor of sociology and the director of the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies at San Diego State University. Her research interests include gender, race and ethnicity, international migration, and the media. She is the author of Elusive Belonging: Marriage Immigrants and ‘Multiculturalism’ in Rural South Korea (University of Hawaii Press, 2018). Her most recent work is an edited volume, Redefining Multicultural Families in South Korea: Reflections and Future Directions (with Hyeyoung Woo, Rutgers University Press, 2022). She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in various journals including Sociological Forum, Qualitative Sociology, Social Politics, Asian Journal of Sociology, Feminist Media Studies, and Asian Journal of Women’s Studies. Her current projects include an ethnographic study of Korean immigrant communities in the U.S. – Mexico border region.
Jaein Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Arkansas State University
Jaein Lee is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the department of Sociology and Criminology at Arkansas State University, and external faculty associate of Maryland Population Research Center. His research explores vital questions on the contexts of individual and social factors shaping inequalities in various demographic outcomes, primarily inequalities in mortality and health behaviors. His recent papers appeared in the Journal of Marriage and Family and Social Forces (with Dr. Caudillo, University of Maryland, College Park). His latest research projects explore how gender differences in attitudes toward homosexuals and suicides are mediated by marital status, age, and religious affiliations in South Korea and other countries (with Dr. Lin, University of Texas, San Antonio), and how trust in government mediates the chance of refusing COVID-19 vaccination in 2020.
Sojung Lim, Associate Professor of Sociology, Utah State University
Sojung Lim is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Yun Kim Population Research Laboratory at Utah State University. She currently serves as an inaugural chair of the Korean Sociologists in America Community of American Sociological Association. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of inequality in family, labor market, and health across different social contexts including the US and East Asia. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research has been published in various journals such as Journal of Marriage and Family, Population Studies, Demographic Research, Social Science Research, BMC Public Health, and Korean Journal of Sociology.
Hyunjoon Park, Director, James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies & Korea Foundation Professor of Sociology
Hyunjoon Park is Korea Foundation Professor of Sociology and Director of the James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Park is interested in educational stratification and family in cross-national comparative perspective, focusing on South Korea and other East Asian societies. In recent years, he has studied changes in marriage, divorce, and living arrangements as well as consequences of demographic and economic trends for education, well-being, and socioeconomic outcomes of children, adolescents, and young adults in Korea. Park has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals including Demography, Social Science & Medicine, Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, Annual Review of Sociology, and Demographic Research, among others. He is the author of the book, Re-Evaluating Education in Japan and Korea: De-mystifying Stereotypes (2013 Routledge). A new book, Diversity and the Transition to Adulthood in America, coauthored with Phoebe Ho and Grace Kao, is forthcoming from the University of California Press. In 2021, Park published a book on intergenerational social mobility in Korea in Korean. He also coedited two books on Korean families and education, respectively.
Hyeyoung Woo, Director of Institute for Asian Studies & Professor of Sociology, Portland State University
I am Director of Institute for Asian Studies & Professor of Sociology at Portland State University. My research interest lies in the areas of gender relations, family behaviors, and health over the life course among people in Korea as well as the United States. Recently, I have published two edited volumes: Redefining Multicultural Families in South Korea (with Minjeong Kim); and Korean Families Yesterday and Today (with Hyunjoon Park). My other work has appeared in a number of journals, including Society and Mental Health, Advances in Life Course Research, Research on Aging, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Sociological Perspectives, and Medical Care. Currently, I am working on several projects, including a multi-year project based on women in Korea funded by the Academy of Korean Studies, concerning three research areas: 1. labor force participation trajectories across age groups; 2. perceptions and experiences toward marriage, cohabitation, and childbirth; and 3. well-being of gender/sexuality and economic minority women. Since 2023, I have served as a board member of the council at Pacific Sociological Association.
Su Yeone Jeon, Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow, James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Su Yeone Jeon is a Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow at the James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her PhD in Sociology from the University of Virginia in 2023. Her research interests include the sociology of development, political economy, economic sociology, and science and technology studies. Her current projects focus on (1) the impact of global regulatory landscape on latecomer countries’ innovation and development in the pharmaceuticals industry, and (2) how risk and uncertainty influence the capitalization of regulated commodities. Her most recent publication was in the Review of International Political Economy. Su Yeone received a B.S. in International Agriculture and Rural Development from Cornell University and an M.S. in Sustainability Management and Master of International Affairs from Columbia University.
STUDENT PAPER AWARD: I-CSK Student Paper Award: Call for Submissions
The I-CSK Program Committee invites graduate students who have been accepted for presentation at the upcoming I-CSK conference to submit their conference manuscripts for the I-CSK Student Paper Award.
The I-CSK Student Paper Award is given to an outstanding graduate student paper that examines a topic of Korea/Koreans or Korean Diaspora (all broadly defined) from sociological perspectives. The submission for the student paper award must be a full paper written in English with a graduate student as the 1st or sole author of the paper. Published papers or papers accepted for publication will not be considered for the student paper award.
To nominate a paper, email (1) a PDF file of the paper with “Student Paper Award” in the subject line to the conference organizer: ICSKatPenn@gmail.com. Please include in your email (2) a one-paragraph description of how the paper contributes to the literature of Sociology of Korea.
The nomination deadline is August 10, 2023. Awardees will be provided a hotel room for up to 3 nights during the conference from the support by the James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) is pleased to host the International Conference on Sociology of Korea (I-CSK), October 7 – 8, 2022 on the Penn campus. The inaugural conference will provide a venue for scholars across the globe to come together to share their on-going projects on Korea/Koreans and Korean diaspora and develop academic networks. For this conference, the program committee is soliciting papers that address various aspects of Korea/Koreans including aging & health, family, gender & sexualities, migration, and stratification & inequality. The committee also welcomes papers that examine other important issues of Korea/Koreans.
- Aging & Life Course (organizer: Dr. Jaein Lee)
- Family & Children (organizer: Dr. Sojung Lim)
- Gender & Sexualities (organizer: Dr. Hyeyoung Woo)
- Migration & Immigration (organizer: Dr. Minjeong Kim)
- Stratification & Inequality (organizer: Dr. ChangHwan Kim)
- Other topics (organizer: Dr. Jung In)
Scholars across the world, especially junior scholars and graduate students, are strongly encouraged to submit either a full-length paper (up to 10,000 words including text, notes, and references) or an extended abstract (up to 4 single-space pages with references, excluding tables and figures) to be considered for presentation at the conference. The full-length paper or extended abstract submission can be made here (https://tinyurl.com/I-CSK2022) and is due by 11:00 pm US Eastern Daylight Time, July 10. A short abstract (up to 200 words) is also required for all submissions. In the submission site, you can indicate a session for which your paper should be considered.
The conference will begin in the evening of October 6 (Thursday) with reception and plenary talk (a keynote speaker will be announced soon), and the conference dinner will take place in the evening of October 7 (Friday). Both the reception and the conference dinner as well as coffee/snack throughout the conference will be provided with generous support from the James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies. There is no conference registration fee but registration is required for all presenters and attendees. We expect the conference to be held principally as an in-person event with the possibility to accommodate a very limited number of remote presentations if needed.
Tentative Schedule
June 1: Call for papers/extended abstracts opens
July 10: Call for paper/extended abstracts closes
July 17: Acceptance notified
July 17 – August 15: Conference registration
August 1: Student paper award submission deadline (more information on the student paper award will be announced soon).
August 8: Student paper award notified
Please feel free to ask any questions about the conference by emailing to the conference organizers (ICSKatPenn@gmail.com).
